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Roseville Recycling Pilot Program Introduction Every year Roseville residents are throwing things in their trash carts that could be put in their recycling bins. As a result our landfills are filling up faster than necessary, there's not enough recyclable material to meet manufacturers demands, and Roseville residents are missing out on the opportunity to save money by switching smaller garbage carts. But those things could change by redesigning the City's curbside recycling program S(j that residents put more of their unwanted things in their recycling. As part of its current recycling contract with Roseville, Waste Management agreed to participate in this pilot program by providing different types of collection services in different pilot study areas. Ramsey C01.mt)'is providing technical assistance to municipalities on recycling issues through a contract with the consulting firm ofR.W. Beck, with Dan Krivit and Associates as subcontractor (referred to in this report as BecklKrivit).\The City and County agreed that the County would authorize BecklKriyit to consult with Roseville on this pilot program foqwo purposes: a)specifically to help the City develop and implement its pilot!lr?g~m; and b) to m~t pertinent resulting information available to other communities in Ramsey County and the metropolitan area. Figure One Recycling Block Leader with Sign The City designed a pilot progrmntob1.ul4 on the succt.ss of the recently completed studies. "Improving Recycling of Residential PaPtIin Minneso~a," conducteq by the Recycling Association of Minnesota (RAM), focused on efforts to spur residents to recycle more paper, especially mixed paper, using pilot studies in a few cities in and nearthepetroP?lit~n area. ."A Comparative Analysis of Applied Recycling Collection Methods,"c?l1d~cttd by Eo/.eka Recycling during 2001-2 featured a comparison of different approaches to colltcting residertial recycl~?les through pilot studies of each approach in several neighborhoods ill the City of 81. P~1.I1. Thestapproaches including source-separated, dual-stream, and single-stream recycling collection, coupled with variations in collection frequency and bins and carts. Historv Roseville has contracted fo{qlfbsiderecycling of single-family homes, duplexes, triplexes and four-plexes since July 1987. The program was once a month collection from July 1987 - July 1988, twice a month collection from August 1988 -December 1998 and since January 1999 every other week collection. Until 1999 the City used a system of block leaders. These residents were given signs to put in their yards to remind neighbors that recycling day was approaching. The City chose to discontinue this program after switching to every other week collection. The program began with collection of old newspaper (ONP) and aluminum cans. Over the years it has expanded to collect old magazines (OMO), old corrugated containers (ace), household office paper and mail (HOPM), boxboard (OBB), phone books, glass bottles and jars, steel food cans, PETE and HDPE plastic bottles with a neck. 2