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<br />March 23, 2005 <br />Page 3 <br /> <br />Table 2 <br />City of Roseville <br />Composition Analysis Categories <br /> <br />1. Old Newspaper (ONP) <br />2. Household Office Paper and Mail <br />(HOPM) <br /> <br />3. Old Magazines/Catalogs (OMG) <br />4. Phone Books <br />5. Uncoated Old Corrugated Cardboard <br />(OCC) and Brown Paper Grocery Bags <br />6. Old Boxboard (OBB) <br /> <br />7. Metal Cans <br /> <br />8. Glass Bottles and Jars <br /> <br />9. Plastic Bottles <br /> <br />10. Beer, Pop & Water Boxes <br />11. Other Paper Trash <br />12. Plastic Bags and Other Film Plastic <br /> <br />13. Other Trash (i.e., non-recyclable items <br />such as twine, foam packaging, <br />ceramics, mirrors, aerosol cans, <br />medical waste, etc.) <br /> <br />Recyclable Materials Sort Protocol <br /> <br />The Project Team developed a recyclable materials composition sort protocol. The detailed <br />composition protocol is included in Attachment B. The protocol addresses the following: <br /> <br />. Planning & Equipment/Facilities Preparation; <br /> <br />. Truck Weighing & Load Tipping Operations; and <br /> <br />. Sampling/Sorting Operations. <br /> <br />Sampling and Sorting Events <br /> <br />The sampling approach used to assess the recyclable materials composition needed to include an <br />adequate number of representative samples to provide statistically meaningful results. In <br />addition, this objective had to be balanced with the City's time, labor, and budget constraints. As <br />a result, three one-week sorting events were scheduled, one (in July) before the pilot collection <br />methods were introduced to residents, and two (in September and October) after the pilot <br />collection methods were initiated. <br /> <br />Samples of recyclable materials, weighing at least two hundred pounds each consistent with <br />American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standards, were randomly selected from the <br />collection vehicles at the end of each collection day. (Details of the sampling procedure are <br />discussed in Attachment B.) The number of samples sorted, the total pounds sorted, and the <br />average pounds per sample from each collection method (single stream and dual stream) are <br />shown below in Table 3. <br /> <br />01-00253-10101-01011070001 I 13500 P:\13500 Ramsey Co. 2003\RTA\Roseville\FA\BI544 - Final Data Analysis <br />