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� <br />Request for Council Action <br />Date: June 21,2004 <br />Item Number: 11. <br />Department Approval Manager Approval Agenda Section <br />Item Description: <br />Update on Recycling Pilot Program <br />Back�round <br />Roseville established a curbside recycling program in July 1987. The curbside recycling program includes all <br />single family homes, duplexes, triplexes, four-plexes and townhomes. The program began with once a month <br />pickup and the frequency has changed until it reached the current every other week collection. Also more types <br />of materials have been gradually added to the list of items collected. Despite increases in frequency of <br />collection and types of material accepted, there has been very little growth in Roseville's recycling program <br />during the past ten years, although Roseville's set out rate remains one of the highest in the metro area (66% in <br />2003). <br />On June 11,2001 the City Council established a resident committee — the Residential Solid Waste and <br />Recycling Citizens Advisory Committee (RSWRCAC) -- charged with evaluating the existing residential waste <br />collection services and exploring opportunities for improvement. The RSWRCAC's report to the City Council <br />on May 20,2002 identified components that could be used to enhance Roseville's curbside recycling program <br />and urged additional study. <br />Pursuant to a Council-approved contract, the City Council has directed staff and Waste Management to conduct <br />a recycling pilot program during the current contract period that runs from January 1,2003 — December 31, <br />2005. At the direction of the City Manager, staff has worked with Waste Management to design a pilot <br />program to test all of the components identified by the RSWRCAC. The City's contractor, Waste Management, <br />has agreed to perform data collection in conjunction with City staf£ Ramsey County staff believes the pilot <br />program could generate information useful to other cities and has contracted with recycling consultants RW <br />Beck and Dan Krivit and Associates to provide free assistance to the City on designing and implementing the <br />pilot program. <br />Pilot Desi�n <br />The City identified five routes of approximately equal demographics and a sixth route of newer housing stock <br />and younger, more affluent demographics. Two routes will test single-stream recycling collection in which <br />residents put all recycling into a single, 64-gallon, wheeled container. One of these routes is from the equal <br />demographic pool and the second is from the younger, more affluent area. An additional route will test weekly <br />collection, one will test supplemental educational materials, one will test 22-gallon bins with lids and wheels, <br />and the final area will be a control area using the current program. <br />City staff is working with Waste Management to record set out rates (the number of households with material at <br />the curb on collection day), participation rates (the number of addresses that participate in the recycling <br />program over the recording period), tonnages collected, material composition and, by calculation, tonnages <br />successfully processed. The first phase will be a two-monthperiod of ineasurement in all areas using the <br />current system -- a"before" or baseline period. Data collection began Monday, June 7. At the end of July, <br />participants (except in the control area) will be sent information about the new collection system. Beginning the <br />
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