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As this material poses a significant challenge for MRFs throughout the region, the <br />Recycling Education Committee started by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is <br />currently recommending that municipalities and haulers do not promote shredded paper <br />as part of curbside collection programs. <br />Alternately, dedicated shredding events like the one hosted by the City of Roseville each <br />summer and other dedicated shredding services are able to capture shredded office paper, <br />keep it clean, and market it as a high quality recycled paper stream. <br />Both of these changes will increase the strength and resiliency of Roseville's recycling program, <br />and our ability to truly market high quality recyclable materials to local markets to maximize the <br />benefit of Roseville's recycling program for the environment and the local community. <br />Please describe where the percentage of Recyclable materials from your operations in the <br />Twin Cities are marketed: e.g. in Minnesota; in the Midwestern Region of the U.S., in <br />North America, and to export markets abroad. <br />In 2020 82% of our material was sold to markets in Minnesota, 93% to markets in the Midwest <br />and 100% to markets in North America. <br />Proposed Value -Added Plan <br />Identify options, ideas, alternatives, or suggestions to add value to this service. Include a <br />short description of how it adds value to the project and identify if the items will increase <br />or decrease cost, customer satisfaction, or both. You may add additional added- value <br />options <br />Describe added -value (Option 1): <br />Virtual MRF Tours for the Roseville community <br />How will this add value? <br />As a mission -based recycler and a zero waste demonstration and lab, we love offering <br />community members a behind -the -scenes look into the world of recycling! While we had to <br />suspend in -person tours of our facility in response to COVID-19, we are getting ready to launch <br />a new virtual MRF tour program on Earth Day 2021. With this new program, we will host virtual <br />tours on zoom for small groups, who will get to learn how recyclables are collected, sorted, <br />processed and sold all for the benefit of the community. The virtual tours will include a <br />presentation and time to answer recycling questions from participants. We are looking forward to <br />sharing this new opportunity with the communities we serve and making the most of this new <br />tour platform that allows us to offer tours at any time that works for community groups (previous <br />public tours had to happen during the day when the facility was running) and offer up -close <br />views of our equipment in action without any safety risk. <br />Describe documented performance of this option in other communities: <br />RFP for City of Roseville Recycling Services - D-28 <br />