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Households served via curbside recycling Ciiy Aa;~roxi~ti,~tc ~ot~~;iolus 5t. Yaul 84,800 j Lauderdale 600 ~ Ma lcwood 30,500 ILoseville 9,500 Lakeland/Lakel:nd Shore ul 2007 900 Arden Hills March 2008 2,500 St. Louis Park October 2008 12,1h5 Total 120,965 *TTie Crty of LVhide Liear Lake (approxirrrately 70,00 kor~sclinfds) u~i[! Ge added i11 2009. 2. lE2esults from Outreach Through door-to-door outreach and events, Eureka Recycling reached 4,4$9 households. 2,533 households were included in door-to-door outreach and 1,956 individual residents were reached through community events. Eureka Recycling distributed a total of 1,050 recycling bins and 2,743 Guides to Recycling, with special focus on recycling milk cartons and juice boxes and clothes and linens. We also distributed translated materials in Spanish {22), Hmong {44) anal Somali (2) and our entire stock of Tetra Pak product (1,500 juice boxes) . 3. Set-out and Participation Data To examine the results of our door-to-door efforts, we collected data from ].,696 households in four neighborhood sections. StafFvisited each neighborhood on their recycling day to record households that were participating in recycling that day. Data was gathered over a month period. We then calculated the set-out rate for each week and the participation rate For each neighborhood. We coirtpared set-out rates before outreach occurred, after outreach. occurred, and after recycling bins were delivered. We identified a control neighborhood where no outreach occurred. This neighborhood was adjacent to a neighborhood where outreach occurred to control for demographics. We compared set- out rates and participation rates of the neighborhoods that received outreach With the neigbborhood that did not receive any door-to-door outreach. Set-out rate results: The set-out rate is the average number of households that set out materials for recycling collection on a given day. • The set-out rate increased significantly in all neighborhoods after outreach occurred and bins were delivered. This increase ranged from a 36'% to 47`% in number of set-outs. ® The set-out rate did not increase in the control neighborhood for the same period of time. It remained essentially the same.