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CITY OF ROSEVILLE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR COMPREHENSIVE RECYCLING SERVICES TO ALL SINGLE UNIT AND MULTI -UNIT DWELLINGS 1. INTRODUCTION The City of Roseville, Minnesota seeks to enter into a new recycling contract with a company to provide comprehensive residential recycling services for the City. Those services include collection, processing, marketing, staffing for recycling information at special events, and public education. Among the goals of the City are to maximize recovery of recyclables from all residents in the City, to market materials so they achieve their highest and best use, to achieve the most cost-effective solution, and to encourage innovation in recycling and waste diversion. Roseville residents have identified a city-wide goal to be an environmentally healthy community, and residents have identified various community values that environmental programs such as recycling should incorporate. Those community values expressed by residents include: • Collection Operations — which includes Clean and quiet; Low impact on street (size and weight of trucks), Easy to participate, Flexibility to Comingle, Collecting more materials as markets become available, Materials are efficiently recycled (local markets, highest and best use for material), Rewards for adding value, multi -unit dwelling recycling • Resident and Community Engagement Efforts — which includes Voluntary expansion to businesses, 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 • Environmental —which includes Experience with Zero Waste events, reduced carbon footprint, use of Clean Diesel Technology and Natural Gas powered vehicles, Education and Leadership on Environmentally Preferred Purchasing (EPP), Local vendor -terminal and Material Recovery Facilities (MRF) locations 4