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Exhibit A Attachment C - Project Capability Plan Project Capability 1 Claim: Deep Municipal Recycling Program Management History Documented Performance: Over the last 15 years, we have recycled over 500,000 tons of material from municipal programs in Saint Paul, Roseville, and surrounding areas. As a national model for recycling success, we have received numerous awards for our efforts to provide programs that meet the needs of the community including the National Recycling Coalition's McClure Award for Outstanding Environmental and Community Leadership, Waste -Age Magazine's Recycling Truck of the Year and the American Forest and Paper Associations Business Leadership Award. Project Capability 2 Claim: Unparalleled Education Capacity Documented Performance: Educating residents about how recycling materials are collected and processed is critical to ensuring continued public trust and material quality. When residents have a better understanding of what's recyclable and what's not, they can make better consumer choices about what to purchase, and their understanding of sustainable living deepens. Our dedicated education and hotline staff is extremely experienced in program transitions and new program launches, as well as maintaining quality and participation of existing programs. We have decades of research, analysis, and data to draw from while creating our education programs. Project Capability 3 Claim: History of and Reputation for Transparent and Accurate Reporting Documented Performance: We believe that transparent and accurate reporting is the key to making recycling programs sustainable. It is also the primary tool available to city staff to assure that their recycling service provider is living up to the commitments they make and to the expectations of the city and its residents. We have a 15-year track record providing detailed reports to the cities we serve. In addition to monthly reports, we provide all of the information cities need to complete their annual and semi-annual SCORE reports for the County. We provide documentation of the tons of recyclables received, processed, and marketed, the markets used and revenues received and shared back with the City, as well as current and projected market strength for city budgeting purposes. Project Capability 4 Claim: Excellent Relationships with Local End Markets Documented Performance: Our roots in the community keep us accountable to the needs of our community. And by managing recyclables with a local, community -based company, about $0.68 of each dollar stays in the community to boost local economic activity, employment, and ultimately, tax revenue. With multi -national companies, less than $0.30 of each dollar stays local. 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 made into a new cereal box by a local paper mill less than 5 miles away and then is back on grocery store shelves in less than 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. We build long-term relationships with end markets that balance the highest and best use of the material with price, distance to market, end use, company practices, and other factors to measure our success. We actively work with a range of markets and have a balance of contracts, long term arrangements, and relationships for spot marketing to ensure highest and best use with competitive pricing and sale to markets in the US and Canada. Over 99% of our material goes to markets where the manufacturing of the recyclable material into new products occurs in the United States, including 89% of that material that stays within 10- miles of our facility, supporting local economic development. We currently sort our material into 15 categories, ensuring each material goes to its highest and best use. The exceptional material quality we produce due to our sorting staff, equipment configuration, and education efforts has resulted in premium value in the marketplace as well as long term contracts that guarantee materials will be accepted 62