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R�q U�s� f� r Council Action Date: June 21,2004 Item Number: i l . - �. - - - - - -;� Department Approval Manager Approval Agenda Section Item Description: Update on Recycling Pilot Program - , :- , :�-- •; - - - _ .� _ . �. _.� � - -- Back�round Roseville established a curbside recycling program in July 1987. The curbside recycling program includes all single family homes, duplexes, triplexes, four-plexes and townhomes. The program began with once a month pickup and the frequency has changed until it reached the current every other week collection. Also more types of materials have been gradually added to the list of items collected. Despite increases in frequency of collection and types of material accepted, there has been very little growth in Roseville's recycling program during the past ten years, although Roseville's set out rate remains one of the highest in the metro area (66% in 2003). On June 11,2001 the City Council established a resident committee — the Residential Solid Waste and Recycling Citizens Advisory Committee (RSWRCAC) -- charged with evaluating the existing residential waste collection services and exploring opportunities for improvement. The RSWRCAC's report to the City Council on May 20,2002 identified components that could be used to enhance Roseville's curbside recyclingprogram and urged additional study. Pursuant to a Council-approved contract, the City Council has directed staff and Waste Management to conduct a recycling pilot program during the current contract period that runs from January 1,2003 — December 3 l, 2005. At the direction of the City Manager, staff has worked with Waste Management to design a pilot program to test all of the components identified by the RSWRCAC. The City's contractor, Waste Management, has agreed to perform data collection in conjunction with City staff. Ramsey County staff believes the pilot program could generate information useful to other cities and has contracted with recycling consultants RW Beck and Dan Krivit and Associates to provide free assistance to the City on designing and implementing the pilot program. Pilot Desi�n The City identified five routes of approximately equal demographics and a sixth route of newer housing stock and younger, more affluent demographics. Two routes will test single-stream recycling collection in which residents put all recycling into a single, 64-gallon, wheeled container. One of these routes is from the equal demographic pool and the second is from the younger, more affluent area. An additional route will test weekly collection, one will test supplemental educational materials, one will test 22-gallon bins with lids and wheels, and the final area will be a control area using the current program. City staff is working with Waste Management to record set out rates (the number of households with material at the curb on collection day), participation rates (the number of addresses that participate in the recycling program over the recording period), tonnages collected, material composition and, by calculation, tonnages successfully processed. The first phase will be a two-month period of ineasurement in all areas using the current system -- a"before" or baseline period. Data collection began Monday, June 7. At the end of July, participants (except in the control area) will be sent information about the new collection system. Beginning the