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• Environmental Board AGENDA ITEM 6A STAFF ORIGINATOR: Marty Asleson MEETING DATE: June 20, 2012 TOPIC: Commercial /IndustrialBusiness /Public and Semipublic Recycling Goal Implementation. INTRODUCTION The Lino Lakes Environmental Board is responsible for overseeing the Solid Waste and Recycling Program for the City of Lino Lakes. Each year the Board establishes goals for the upcoming year. The Board established a new recycling goal for 2012. The new goal was to investigate the expansion recycling efforts in the city with particular attention to Commercial, Industrial, small business and public semi public entities. BACKGROUND The City of Lino Lakes receives grant money each year from the county to manage a residential recycle program. A requirement of the program is to assess the success of recycling. Recycling tonnage summaries are assembled on a bi- annual basis and reports sent to Anoka County Integrated Solid Waste. In general, the business portion of the waste stream in Lino Lakes is not under required reporting covered under score funding, so in the past the county receives spotty reporting on what is being recycled from business in Lino Lakes. Discussions of the need to increase recycling in Anoka County were heard at the Anoka County Solid Waste Advisory Committee meetings in 2011. The Committee was working on a new comprehensive plan. These discussions were brought back to the Lino Lakes Environmental Board. It was in December of 2011 that the Lino Lakes Environmental Board decided to pursue the expansion of the cities' program to include Business. Since little was known about our business recycling, staff was asked by the Environmental Board to meet with our City licensed haulers about recycling issues in our business community. In February of 2012, City staff invited our licensed commercial vendors to a meeting in City Hall to discuss the issues of commercial /Industrial/business and semi public recycling in the City, ways that truck trips may be decreased, best management practices employed that might reduce our street ware issues, and interest in using some of our recycle elements such as aluminum cans in the businesses areas to fund raise and stimulate more recycle interest. After this meeting, nothing was heard from the haulers until a follow up letter was written by Mike Berkopec from Ace Solid Waste included information on business recycling in Lino Lakes. Mr. Berkopec's letter also addressed the "other" concerns of the board but for this report has been excluded. According to Mike and the confidential information on Ace Solid waste recycling accounts, "commercial recycling is happening in Lino Lakes." Two of the biggest challenges to