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Zero Waste Events Describe your proposed operations for providing Recycling services at Zero Waste special events (e.g., Earth Day Celebration, Taste of Rosefest, Run for the Roses, Wild Rice Festival, other community events, etc.). Through our zero -waste event program we partner with event organizers, supporting them in taking a new approach to event planning and on -site management. With a zero -waste perspective, waste can be reduced before it is generated, and discards can be designed to be easily composted or recycled. Eureka Recycling will work with vendors to ensure they are using zero -waste packaging for food and beverages sold onsite. We also educate attendees on how to compost and recycle at the event. Our staff will also manage trash, recycling, and composting throughout the event, ensuring that materials are not only sorted properly, but that containers are emptied and issues are solved quickly to keep the whole system running smoothly. Lastly, we provide a post -event report to inform event organizers and other stakeholders how close the event came to zero -waste as well as recommendations for steps to take at future events to reduce waste even further. Through our zero -waste event program, attendees, vendors and event organizers are able to clearly identify the event as sustainable and working toward a zero waste future. At these events, people's perceptions of trash are changed by experiencing a waste -free world. When nearly all of the discards at an event are composted or recycled, attendees experience the possibility of a world without waste in a tangible and memorable way. Proposed Food Scraps Collection Plan If food scraps Recycling is included in your proposal, describe the details of your proposed food scraps curbside collection service. Include: schedule for planning, details of any pilot projects, citywide implementation/roll-out; cart ownership (if needed); proposed composting facility (or facilities) to be used; and any other pertinent details. If available, provide a proposed food scraps collection service price schedule. The most cost effective, environmentally and socially beneficial composting program incorporates prevention of wasted food first, then backyard composting education and training, and as a final step, curbside collection of meat, bones, paper napkins and other scraps that can't be backyard composted. The cornerstone of the composting program we propose will emphasize prevention and backyard composting first. The curbside collection program will begin with a city-wide announcement. We will design, produce and mail an invitation to join the program to all curbside households in the city. We will also have information about the program on our website and provide information for the city website and city publications, like the newsletter. All our zero -waste hotline staff will also have information about the program to share with residents who call, and will track households that are interested in taking part in the program. The program will be managed by collection day (i.e. Monday blue and green zones for recycling will be one compost collection section). Collection of organics will be provided weekly to participating households and organic material brought to SET or another licensed composting facility. RFP for City of Roseville Recycling Services • D-15