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�, J � Request for Council Action Date: September 23, 2002 Item Number: VIII. C. Department Approval Manager Approval Agenda Section Item Description: ._ Residential Recycling Contract Reports/Recommendations 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 those items collected. On June 11, 2001 the City Council established a resident committee to update the 1991 report Options for Residential Waste Collection and Recycling Reportfor Roseville, Minnesota. The City Council charged the Residential Solid Waste and Recycling Citizens Advisory Committee (RSWRCAC) with updating the April 1991 Report and to "evaluate the existing residential waste collection services and explore opportunities for improvement." The RSWRCAC presented its Report to the City Council on May 20, 2002. In the Report, members said the participation rate and tonnage of recycling collected in Roseville's curbside recycling program have remained fairly stagnant over the past ten years. Meanwhile we are all generating more garbage. Each Minnesotan is producing on average, 1.14 tons of garbage in 2000; that's up from 0.93 tons in 1993. RSWRCAC members felt Roseville residents should generate less garbage. One of the ways to do that is to increase the amount of waste that is recycled. Members looked at different options to improve participation in the curbside recycling program and included those options in their report. (That section of the Report is included here. The entire Report has been sent previously to the City Council and additional copies are available at City Hall.) The options include potential changes to the City's curbside recycling program that could be incorporated into the City's next recycling contract. The current contract with Waste Management expires after December 3 1, 2002. The Committee put forward three options for the Council to consider: continue with the City's current two-sort system with bi-weekly collection, switch to every week collection, or switch to a single-stream system with bi- weekly collection. The Report lists the pros and cons of each option. Currently residents pay $1.75 per month for recycling. The resident fee is subsidized by an annual SCORE grant of more than $60,000 from Ramsey County and by a recycling fee charged to multi-family complexes that are not included in the program. Another RSWARCAC recommendation is to expand the current curbside recycling program to include multi- family complexes. Complexes are being charged a recycling fee, but are not provided with any service. Additionally the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners voted at its July 23 meeting to withhold a portion of 2003 SCORE grants from cities that do not ensure that residents of multi-family complexes have recycling