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EXTRACT OF MINUTES OF MEETING <br />OF THE <br />CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEVILLE <br />Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a regular meeting of the City Council of the City <br />of Roseville, County of Ramsey, Minnesota was duly held on the 22nd day of February, <br />2010 at 6:00 p.m. <br />The following members were present: Johnson, Pust, Roe and Klausing <br />and the following were absent: Ihlan <br />Mayor Klausing introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption: <br />RESOLUTION No. 10790 <br />Support for Product Stewardship <br />WHEREAS, Minnesotans produce an average of more than one ton of garbage per <br />person each year -more than 6 million tons annually, a substantial amount of which is <br />placed into landfills or incinerated resulting in wasted resources; and <br />WHEREAS, Local government in Minnesota is held responsible by the State for waste <br />management outcomes, including assuring recycling opportunities, regulating and <br />enforcing solid and hazardous waste laws, hazardous waste collection, and other costly <br />waste management programs; and <br />WHEREAS, Minnesota cities and counties currently spend more than $55 million <br />annually on recycling and household hazardous waste programs and receive <br />approximately $14 million annually in funding from the State; and <br />WHEREAS, The way Americans produce, deliver, procure and dispose of goods and <br />services accounts for 42% of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions. However, those <br />emissions can be greatly reduced through enhanced source reduction, reuse and recycling <br />(Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Materials and Land <br />Management Practices U.S. EPA 2009); and <br />WHEREAS, Consumer products and packaging may contain materials that are difficult <br />to recycle, toxins such as heavy metals, certain plastics, or harmful substances that pose a <br />threat to human health and the environment; and <br />WHEREAS, Local governments do not design or market products and do not profit from <br />their sale, but are spending public resources to deal with and manage the rising volume of <br />discarded products; and <br />