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3.2 Survey Summary Matrix <br />A total of 49 cities responded to the municipal survey. The summary matrix shows the responses <br />of each city (Appendix B). The following summarizes some of the results from the municipal <br />survey. <br />3.2.1 Residential MSW and Curbside Recyclable Material Collection Systems <br />The municipal survey requested the types of residential MSW and curbside recyclable material <br />collection systems for each city. Table 3-1 City Collection Systems summarizes the residential <br />collection systems of the cities that responded to the survey. <br />Table 3-1 City Collection Systems <br />Total Organized Open Organized Open <br />MSW MSW Recyclable Recyclable <br /># of Cities 49 17 32 28 21 <br />Organized MSW and Open MSW and Open MSW and <br />Organized Recyclables Organized Recyclables Open Recyclables <br /># of Cities 17 1 11 21 <br />Of the 49 cities that responded to the surveys, 17 cities (35%) have an organized residential <br />MSW collection system and 32 cities (65%) have an open residential MSW collection system. <br />Twenty-eight cities (57%) have an organized residential recyclable material collection system <br />and 21 cities (43%) have an open residential recyclable material collection system. <br />A higher percentage of recycling services are organized as this service was added to solid waste <br />collection at a time when some haulers were not interested in providing recycling collection. It <br />was simpler to organize for this new service. <br />Seventeen of the cities (35%) have an organized system for both MSW and recyclable material <br />collection. Of the cities with organized collection systems, three cities (18%) have municipal <br />crews for both MSW and recycling collection; two cities (12%) have municipal crews for MSW <br />collection and contract for recycling collection; 11 cities (65%) contract with a company for both <br />MSW and recycling collection; and one city (5%), Hibbing, uses both municipal crews and a <br />private contracted hauler (Waste Management) for recycling and MSW collection. <br />Eleven of the cities (22%) have an open MSW collection system but an organized recyclable <br />material collection system. <br />Twenty-one of the cities (43%) have an open system for both MSW and recyclable material <br />collection. <br />Copies of the hauler contracts were requested from cities with organized systems. <br />R - Analysis of Waste Collection Service Arrangements.doc Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC • 49 <br />June 2009 <br />