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Exhibit A Attachment D - Project Community Values Capability Community Values Capability 1 Claim: Our program makes it easy for residents to participate by providing single stream collection and adding new materials like additional plastics. Easy to participate, flexibility to comingle, more materials picked up —particularly plastics. Documented Performance: When we recently implemented single -sort recycling in a city in Ramsey County, the percentage of residents that participate in the recycling program went from 76% to 93%, demonstrating that the program was easy to participate in and that the comingling of materials made it more convenient for residents to recycle. We were the first in the state to provide curbside collection of textiles, cartons, juice boxes, pop and beer boxes, and pizza boxes. We continue to work with industries and manufacturers to add even more materials and deliver them to markets that truly and transparently recycle them into new products. Community Values Capability 2 Claim: Our use of local recycling markets reduces the carbon footprint of your recycling program and further increases the local economic development benefit of recycling. Local markets, reduced carbon footprint. Documented Performance: We market over 98% of our paper to the Saint Paul paper mill, WestRock (formally RockTenn), which uses 100% recycled paper to make new paper and has been in operation in Saint Paul for nearly 100 years, supplying over 300 people high -paying union jobs. A cereal box set at the curb for recycling in Roseville is recycled and made into a new cereal box in Saint Paul and is back on grocery store shelves in approximately 3 to 6 weeks. This is a true demonstration of the possibility of closing the loop and keeping the material local, which has the greatest economic, environmental, and community benefits that recycling can bring to a community. Community Values Capability 3 Claim: Our transparent and accurate reporting shows that materials are efficiently recycled and handled according to their highest and best use. Materials are efficiently recycled —highest and best use for material. Documented Performance: We calculate and share specific data from your city to help you evaluate your recycling program while the reporting from most MRFs is done on a facility -wide basis. We share specific composition information about your recycling, the actual residual rate of your material, and specific information about the end markets where we send your recycling and what products they are made into. Community Values Capability 4 Claim: Our education and outreach program has been recognized as one of the best in the country. Effective frequent education of residents --with measurement, community involvement, annual report that includes information on what happens to material, outreach to low participating communities, outreach using electronic communications. Documented Performance: In addition to the annual guide to recycling, we do education and outreach at events like Earth Day. We also participate in Night to Unite, where we focus on visiting block parties in neighborhoods with low recycling participation (as calculated in our annual participation study). We work with members of the community to create accurate, culturally relevant translations of recycling education for many languages. We have worked with cities to improve recycling in lower preforming neighborhoods through direct outreach, education through newsletters and community papers, and by working with the city to coordinate "get caught recycling" campaigns where we offer incentives to residents who start recycling. Our annual reporting meets all of the city's requirements and also contains an analysis of the environmental benefits of the City's recycling program, a description of industry trends, and documentation of education efforts and the specific impact of each on participation and amounts recycled. We use 63