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Request for Council Discussian/Directian Date: September 18,2006 Item Number: 3. Department Approval Manager Approval Agenda Section �� r' ��r_.d� Item Descriotion: Consider Switching to �'��ek h� Residential Recycling Service At its October 24, 2005 meeting the City Council approved awarding a contract for Recycling Service to Eureka Recycling. Councilmembers requested the final contract contain a provision laying out the terms for switching from the current every other week collection to weekly collection. That provision requires the City to notify Eureka Recycling of the City's desire to switch to weekly collection of curbside residential recycling by November 1 of the year preceding the switch. The switch would then occur on or about Earth Day of the subsequent calendar year. Eureka would be responsible for publicizing the switch. Switching to weekly collection would provide two maj or benefits to residents. First they would more easily be able to determine when to put out their recycling for collection. Approximately 10°/o of the recycling related calls received by the City's recycling coordinator over the past five years have been from residents wondering if this was their collection week. Typically these calls are from residents who have been out of town and have lost track of the every other week collection schedule. The second benefit is that because residents are able to have their recycling collected more frequently, they put more material out for collection. According to the pilot study the City conducted in 2004-2005, the residents who tested weekly collection put the most material out for collection (see table below). from Table ES-3 Comparison of Projected Pounds Per HH Per Year Weekly 748.80 Single-Stream 732.16 Larger Bins 698.62 Addt'1 Education 657.80 (from City of Roseville Recycling Pilot Program Summary, December 2005) Maplewood and St. Paul have both recently switched from every other week collection to weekly collection. Maplewood has seen a 10°/o increase in material collected; St. Paul has increased 9-10°/o. According to the pricing structure in Eureka's proposal, the cost for weekly curbside collection in 2007 would be $2.45 per household per month — with biweekly collection the City would pay $2.14 per household per month in 2007. Switching to weekly collection would cost an additional $39,337.20 in 2007. Another provision in the contract is for revenue sharing. Currently Roseville is receiving between $7,000 and $8,000 a month from the sale of recyclable material collected through the municipal recycling