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POLICY H2 <br />11/12/03 <br />ITEM: Change in Recycling Method from Five-Sort to a Two-Sort <br />SUBMITTED BY: Solid Waste Commission <br />REVIEWED BY: Deborah Jones, Planning & Zoning Coordinator, staff liaison to the <br />Solid Waste Commission <br />Heather Worthington, City Administrator <br />EXPLANATION: <br />Summary: Earlier this year, the Solid Waste Commission voted unanimously to allow E-Z <br />Recycling to utilize atwo-sort method, rather than the five-sort method required in the current <br />contract. Staff toured the E-Z Recycling plant last week, and is confident that they are capable <br />of making the switch, with little or no increase in the amount of residual material, and thus no <br />negative environmental impact from switching to 2-sort. <br />Under the 2-sort system, corrugated cardboard is still collected separately from the two streams <br />ofNewspaper-Magazines-Mixed Mail-Cereal Boxes and Cans-Glass-Plastic. We'll make sure <br />people know they must still flatten and bundle corrugated cardboard and put it out separately. <br />• (So it is, technically, a third stream, for those who recycle corrugated cardboard.) <br />The Solid Waste Commission would now like to roll out this new method, update the contract, <br />and do resident education about the change in the upcoming newsletter and flyer. <br />Chris Reinhardt at E-Z has offered to distribute tags to residents at the November 21 or <br />December 5 recycling pick-up to instruct them on the new sorting method. <br />ATTACHMENT: <br />• Staff report on two-sort method <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />Authorize city staff and the solid waste commission to update the recycling contract to <br />require atwo-sort method, and commence with resident education around this change in <br />upcoming newsletter and city flyer <br />• <br /> <br />