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Residennal Solid Waste and Recycling Citizens Advisory Committee Recommendations Clean Up Day Meet the City's environmental goals by offering a Citywide clean up day run by a company or companies in which residents will be charged fo�r disposal and Roseville subsidizes 1/3 of the disposal cost at an annual expense af approxim�ately $11,000. Expand and enhance education campaigns to alert residents to the need to properly disposc of difficult items. Add a requirement to hauler licensing that haulers annually give custorzzers, and file with the City, a clear delinearion of rates and services. Urge Ramsey County to investigate participa�ing in the Free Market website. Bulky Items Include in a Citywide clean up day an area for residents to drop of£bulky items. Expand and enhance education campaigns to educate residents about private means of disposal for bulky items. Encourage the Minnesota Office oi Environmental Assistance to protz�ote carpet recycling pro- grams and support the MOEA's efforts at product stewardship. Electronics Include in a Citywide clean up day and area for electronics drop off. Require the vendor guaran- tee the electronics material it receives remains in the U.S. for processing andlor disposal. Expand and enhance information to residents about private companies that will pick up electronic items for proper disposal or accept drop offs at their facilities. Encourage the Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance to promote electronics recycling programs and support the MOEA's efforts at product stewardship. Garbage Committee members unanimously recommend a garbage system that meets the City's environ- mental goals and the members' top priority of environmentally preferred management of waste. That system should also follow the State hierarchy that prefers waste reduction, reuse and recy- cling; yard and food waste composting; and resource recovery with landflling as the least pre- fened means of management. Of the methods studied by the Committee, an orgaa�ized collection system run by private haulers appears to give the City the best, and perhaps only, xneans to meet the City's and State's environmenta.l goals and balance cirizen interests and concezz�s. �1