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<br />Bulky Items <br /> <br />Recommendation: <br />The committee believes residents should be <br />fully informed of the need for proper disposal <br />of difficult items and of all the public and <br />private programs to help them recycle and <br />dispose of these items. To help inform resi- <br />dents, the committee recommends Roseville <br />change its licensing for garbage haulers to <br />require they annually inform residents of all the <br />haulers waste services and the rates for those <br />services. <br /> <br />Electronics <br /> <br />Recommendations: <br />Include in a Citywide clean up day and area for <br />electronics drop off. Require the vendor <br />guarantee the electronics material it receives <br />remains in the U.S. for processing and/or <br />disposaL <br /> <br />Encourage the Minnesota Office of Environ- <br />mental Assistance to promote electronics <br />recycling programs and support the MOEA's <br />efforts at product stewardship. <br /> <br />Garbage <br /> <br />While Roseville contracts for recycling service, <br />residents contract individually for garbage <br />service. <br /> <br />Current <br />System <br />Roseville <br />homeowners <br />contract with <br />any of eight <br />compames <br />licensed by the <br />City to remove their garbage. Homeowners <br />may change haulers as they wish and haulers <br />are free to recruit customers as they wish. This <br />system is called Open Collection. <br /> <br /> <br />Although the system is not completely free of <br /> <br />regulation by Roseville. Following the 1991 <br />report, the City was divided into five zones <br />each with its own day of the week for pickup <br />of garbage and recycling. The City also has a <br />set of service standards required for licensing <br />that include offering separate pickup of yard <br />waste and brush, and offering walk up service <br />for which haulers can charge extra. There is, <br />however, no monitoring for compliance. <br /> <br />Roseville residents surveyed are generally <br />pleased with their garbage service. Sixty-three <br />percent rated it excellent and 33% rated it <br />good. Seventy-nine percent said the rates seem <br />fair for the service provided; 16% said the rates <br />were too high for the service provided. Focus <br />group members said they were pleased that <br />their garbage hauler picked up their trash and <br />took it away so that they didn't have to think <br />about it anymore. <br /> <br />But that didn't stop focus group members and <br />survey participants from wondering what <br />happened to their trash. Thirty-two percent of <br />residents surveyed said they were very con- <br />cerned where their garbage goes, 48% were <br />somewhat concerned and 20% were not very <br />concerned. Ninety percent said they would <br />prefer their garbage goes to a resource recovery <br />facility where it is turned into fuel for an <br />electricity generating plant instead of going to a <br />landfilL <br /> <br />State Hierarchy <br />The State agrees that it would rather see gar- <br />bage go to a resource recovery facility. In 1980 <br />the Minnesota Legislature established an order <br />of preference for managing waste in order to <br />protect the state's environment and public <br />health. This preferential order is: <br />!l Reduction and Reuse <br />!l Recycling <br />!l Yard and Food Waste Composting <br />I!il Resource Recovery <br />I!il Landfilling with methane collection <br />!l Landfilling with no methane <br />collection <br /> <br />5 <br />