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City of Roseville 2018 Year -End Recycling Report Attachment A Roseville's recycling program continues to be a leader in the country. Outreach and education elements of the program are an important part to ensuring good participation and helping residents understand the benefits of recycling. Participation continues to be at or among the highest in Ramsey County at 92%. Despite the continued lightening of packaging, the tons of recycling collected in Roseville in 2018 stayed steady with only a small decrease. Roseville residents demonstrate a genuine desire to support the program, understand what can truly be recycled, and recycle as much as possible. There has been significant decrease in the value of sorted recycling across the globe in 2018 and through 2019. This has been a challenge for recyclers and cities across the country. Despite the challenges, recycling still plays a key role in benefitting the health of our communities and preventing the negative impacts of waste. Communities are increasingly aware of the impacts of waste to our health and studies show significant amounts of micro plastics in our lakes and rivers and soil here in Minnesota. Although the financial value for recycling has decreased, the cost of wasting material to our communities increases and therefore it is important to look at the benefit of recycling from a social and environmental perspective and look at the true cost of wasting. In the current recycling climate, it is even more critical to work to keep Roseville's recycling clean and free of contamination, which is one of the reasons Eureka Recycling decided to launch a recycling app in 2018. By working with a company called ReCollect, we launched a recycling app that Roseville residents can use online at eureka recycling. org or can download to their mobile device for free by searching for "Eureka Recycling" in their app store. The app allows residents to look up individual items to find out if they are accepted in their recycling program or not, and can also be connected to Ramsey County listings and resources for guidance in handling hard to recycle items like electronics, scrap metal, and appliances. The app also allows residents to see their recycling schedule and sign up for reminders to support their participation in Roseville's recycling program. Overall, 814 unique Roseville addresses have been searched through the app, and 746 materials have been looked up to see if they can be recycled. There are currently 200 Roseville residents signed up for recycling day reminders, with 67% of those residents being signed up through a mobile app and the rest being signed up for email, text, or phone call reminders. We look forward to working with the City to further promote this new app and expand on this success. (651) 222 -SORT (7678) www.eurekarecycling.org Our mission is to reduce waste today through innovative resource management and to reach a waste -free tomorrow by demonstrating that waste is preventable, not inevitable. An affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Q Printed on 100% postconsumer recycled paper that was processed without the use of chlorine.