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Additional curbside collection services (yard waste, bulky items, appliances, holiday tree collection) vary by hauler. Costs associated with the services are not readily available as haulers are free to charge residents what they like for these services. The City also has one public compost site where residents may drop off brush and yard waste for a fee. The site is open from mid -April through mid -November. The City is separated into four different residential hauling districts. Each district has a different designated collection day. Collection services are provided to residents Monday through Thursday, depending on which hauling district they are located. All materials placed curbside for collection at a household (MSW, recycling and yard waste) must be collected on the district's designated collection day. The haulers observed in this City used 25 cubic yard packers with ASL cart dumpers. St. Paul The city of St. Paul reported having 65,746 single family households eligible for residential collection service. City officials noted that approximately ten percent of the total households do not actually contract for MSW collection service. The multi -family residences' MSW is handled as commercial accounts via dumpsters. Most haulers provide volume -based collection via different size containers. Recycling is handled via a contract between the City and Eureka Recycling. The curbside recycling program serves 84,771 households (single family through four-plexes) collected by Eureka Recycling's 20 bio-diesel-powered collection vehicles. Tonnage has increased ten -fold since the program went City-wide in 1986 to 21,000 tons in 2004. The contract extension with Eureka Recycling signed September, 2001 commits the City's cost for recycling services long-term at $121.00 per ton through 2013. The ten year extension and work plan incorporates performance features using objective measurements of progress, and provides incentives for achieving objectives. The contract departs from the usual line item budgeting approach in favour of a flat per ton payment, leaving most program decisions to Eureka Recycling. The City changed to weekly dual -stream curbside collection of recyclables (all fibers in one bin and all rigid containers in another bin) beginning June 2004; resulting in a projected increase of 3,000-4,000 tons collected per year; and requiring a $2.00 per household Recycling Service Fee increase to cover the cost to collect and process the increased tonnage, and to cover decreases in state SCORE recycling grant funding in 2003-2005. Eureka Recycling plans to add clean organics collection to the curbside program in 2008-2010, with the objective of reaching a 75% residential recycling rate in St. Paul by 2012. Yard wastes collection service is provided by the haulers, but Ramsey County operates a yard waste processing collection system that includes three yard waste drop-off sites within the city of St. Paul. The County's yard waste sites are free to County residents. Bulky wastes may be 80 •Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC R - Analysis of Waste Collection Service Arrangements.doc June 2009