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By maintaining ongoing preventative maintenance for all vehicles in our fleet and continuously rotating out the trucks in our fleet, we can ensure quiet, safe operations for all of the communities we serve. The average age of vehicles in our current fleet is currently three years. Local Markets Please describe how your proposed operations and materials marketing plans will maximize the use of local end markets to the extent possible. Over the years Eureka Recycling has always focused on quality and built strong partnerships with local recycling markets. Eureka Recycling's roots are in the community, which keep us accountable to the needs of our community. Research by organizations such as the Institute for Local Self Reliance shows that locally owned businesses and organizations keep more dollars in the local economy. By managing recyclables with a local, community -based company, about $ .68 of each dollar stays in the community to boost local economic activity, employment, and ultimately, tax revenue. With multi -national companies, less than $.30 of each dollar stays local. We are also proposing two changes to the Roseville Recycling Program to further support this goal of maintaining a high quality recycling stream that can be marketed locally: • Transition away from collection of textiles at the curb Over the past few years we have been reevaluating the effectiveness of our textiles collection program and received a grant from the MPCA to do this analysis and produce a report. Our analysis and research revealed some challenges with curbside collection of textiles in terms of achieving environmental and economic benefit. Part of our research found that the quality of material typically collected at the curb provides challenges to the ability to reuse and recycle the textiles, resulting in much of the materials collected being sent overseas where it is challenging to trace how much actually gets used again and how much still ends up being waste. We believe there may be alternatives to curbside collection that could achieve greater environmental and economic benefit, and more details of this proposal are included below under "Added -Value (Option 2)". Our full textiles recycling report can be found here. httys://eurekarecvcling.org/wp- content/uploads/2020/01/Best-Practices-For-Textiles-Collection-for-Municiple- Programs.pdf . • Transition away from collection of shredded paper at the curb Shredded paper has always been a challenging material to collect with single -stream recycling even when residents prepare it according to our current guidelines, the bags often break during collection and processing, causing bits of shredded paper to mix in with the other materials and get dirty. While we are currently capturing much of the loose shredded paper in our stream, it is no longer a high quality product by the time it goes through our facility, and some of it ends up as contamination in other material streams. RFP for City of Roseville Recycling Services • D-27