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However, when you compare the amount of material collected, Roseville residents are doing a good job. For instance Anoka County requires its cities to collect an average of 175 pounds of recycling per person per year. If applied to Roseville participants in the curbside program the target would be just over 2,400 tons a year. In 2004 Roseville residents in the curbside program recycled 2,902 tons. This high level of participation was echoed by the staff at Waste Management. Everyone from drivers to supervisors said, "People in Roseville are good recyclers." Meanwhile the average amount of garbage generated by Minnesotans has been rising. Statewide each person generated 1.14 tons of garbage in 2000 that's up from 0.93 tons in 1993. Roseville does not compile garbage figures for the City, so the statewide figures are used as an analogy. Not everything that is being thrown away is garbage. According to a}9.~gstudy of what's in Minnesotans' trash, almost 25% of our garbage by weight is paper that could be r~cycIed.\(Statewide MSW Composition Study, March 2000, the Solid Waste Management Coordinating13oard (SWMC';B), the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and the Office of Environmental Assistance (OEA)) That mirrors what Roseville found in a resident survey inlanuary 2002. Ninety-severip~rcent of the residents who recycle put newspapers out for collection, thafgoes doyvn to 92% for tin and aluminum cans, 91 % each for glass and plastic bottles, 87% for cardboard and box1JOard, 78% for magazines and 63% for junk mail. In a survey of participants in this pilot program, 13% said they never recycle junk mail. While asked why they threw recyclable material in the to recycle. recycle th~irjunk mail every other week and magazines every other week. When said they were unsure about what 4