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generally a result of large purchases of durable goods or electronics. As the sale of these items dropped in 2008 so to did the resulting tons of cardboard being recycled. Conversely, as more people stayed home rather than dining out the percentage of food and beverage containers showed an increase. Along with that the paper packaging for these items also increased significantly as you can see in the category of pop and beer boxes. New materials make a difference. Roseville is one of the few communities to ensure the pop & beer boxes collected in its curbside recycling program are actually recycled. At Eureka Recycling's facility, pop and beer boxes are separated from all other papers and sold to mills that can use the material to make ne~v products. Pop and beer boxes contain. an additive called wetstrength, which make them incompatible with other types of paper {like cardboard, newsprint or offrce paper} in the pulping process. By collecting and separating out these boxes, nearly 18 tons of material that was recycled in this community would have been wasted in other cities. Milk cartons and juice boxes and cloths and linens are the newest materials to be added to the recycling program in Roseville. These materials did not register in a sample study and is negligible on the composition chart above because the percentage of this material is small compared to well-established items that people have been recycling for decades. Just like it took years to establish paper, bottles, and cans in recycling programs in the 1980s, it takes many years to fully communicate a new material as recyclable in a community. Overall, Eureka Recycling and it partner cities together have made strides to increase this material. In 2008, Eureka Recycling collected and recycled 59 tons of Milk Cartons and Juice Boxes and 100 tons of Clothes and Linens all of which would have been unnecessarily wasted in most other cities.