2021_01-26_PWETCpacket - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

I Introduction The City of Roseville, Minnesota (City) 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. The RFP packet, together with all attachments and exhibits, defines the service standards and specifications and proposal requirements of the Comprehensive Recycling Program for the City of Roseville. For the purpose of tius RFP, the City of Roseville has identified 9,434 Residential Dwelling Units, defined as stand-alone Single Unit Dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, four-plexes, and townhomes. These units will be serviced "curbside" as Single Unit Dwellings, as specified herein. The City has identified 6,574 Multi -Unit Dwellings, as detailed in the draft Contract - Exhibit B, are defined as units in five or more unit buildings or mobile home parks. These units are serviced as multi -unfits, as specified herein. The City allows other organizations (e.g., faith organizations) and small businesses to opt -in to the curbside recycling program, as long as the composition of materials is similar. There are 21 additional opt -in locations with a total of 34, 96-gallon carts. The program also currently includes 23 City Parks and 7 City buildings as part of the recycling collection service as detailed in draft Contract — Exhibit D. Among the goals of the City are to maximize recovery of recyclables from all residents in the City, to market materials so theyachieve 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 consisting of. Clean and quiet pickup and transport; Low impact on street pavement (size and weight of trucks); Easy participation effort including use of single -stream collection and processing operations; Ability to collect more materials as markets become available, notably food scraps; Efficiently recycled (local markets, highest and best use for material); State-of-the-art collections at City parks and other municipal facilities; and RFP for City of Roseville Recyclarg Services • 1