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<br />1!Introduction <br />The City of Roseville, Minnesota (City) seeks to enter into a new recycling contract with a <br />company to provide comprehensive residential recycling services for the City. Those services <br />include collection, processing, marketing, staffing for recycling information at special events, <br />and public education. <br /> <br />The Request for Proposals (RFP) packet, together with all attachments and exhibits, defines the <br />service standards and specifications and proposal requirements of the Comprehensive Recycling <br />Program for the City of Roseville. <br /> <br />For the purpose of this RFP, the City of Roseville has identified 9,487 Residential Dwelling <br />Units, defined as stand-alone Single-Dwelling Units (SDUs), duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, and <br />townhomes. These units will be serviced curbside as Single-Dwelling Units, as specified <br />herein. The City has identified 7,486 Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs), as detailed in the draft <br />Contract - Exhibit B, are defined as units in five or more unit buildings or mobile home parks. <br />These units are serviced as multi-units, as specified herein. The City allows other organizations <br />(e.g., faith organizations) and small businesses to opt-in to the curbside recycling program, as <br />long as the composition of materials is similar. There are 23 additional opt-in locations with a <br />total of 44, 96-gallon carts. The program also currently includes 23 City Parks and 7 City <br />buildings as part of the recycling collection service as detailed in draft Contract Exhibit D. <br /> <br />Among the goals of the City are to maximize recovery of recyclables from all residents in the <br />City, to market materials so they achieve their highest and best use, to achieve the most cost- <br />effective solution, and to encourage innovation in recycling and waste diversion. <br /> <br />Roseville residents have identified a city-wide goal to be an environmentally healthy community, <br />and residents have identified various community values that environmental programs such as <br />recycling should incorporate. <br /> <br />Those community values expressed by residents include: <br /> <br />!Collection operations consisting of: <br />!Clean and quiet pickup and transport; <br />!Low impact on street pavement (size and weight of trucks); <br />!Easy participation effort including use of single-stream collection and processing <br />operations; <br />!Ability to collect more materials as markets become available, notably food scraps; <br />!Efficiently recycled (local markets, highest and best use for material); <br />!State-of-the-art collections at City parks and other municipal facilities; and <br /> RFP for City of Roseville Recycling Services 1 <br />Qbhf!224!pg!557 <br /> <br />