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2.4.3.4 Cities of Plymouth and Edina The cities of Plymouth and Edina both currently have organized residential recycling collection services. They also both have recently initiated recycling purchasing processes to procure additional and new services for residential curbside recycling collection. In each case, a curbside recycling RFP was developed by City staff, with review and approval by a contract legal counsel. This legal opinion stated that the Cities must still follow the Organized Collection statute in M.S. I I5A.94 if they wanted to include source separated organics (SSO) as a new service to the recycling contracts. The cities were hoping to add SSO as a new recyclable commodity as part of curbside recycling contract services. This legal opinion stated that following the Organized Collection statute is required despite the amendment to the definition of mixed MSW in the 2008 Regular Session of the Minnesota Legislature (Chapter 357 - S.F. No. 3056, Sections 32 and 33) and the addition of the new term "source -separated compostable materials". This municipal legal opinion held that the definitions of "solid waste" or "recyclable materials" was not changed with the Organized Collection statute (I 15A.94) and therefore such expansion of the scope of curbside recycling services should trigger the Organized Collection process (as per 115A.94). In both cases, the cities of Plymouth and Edina elected not to include SSO collection and composting in the scope of services. 2.5 Issues Related to Collection Services There are several potential issues associated with collection services that have been identified in the work plan for this study. These issues are: Costs of collection services to residents; Waste generation/management; Waste disposal/management; Infrastructure costs; and Accidents and safety. This study researched these issues as part of the literature review task. The results of the literature review research are presented in the following subsections. Some of these issues are addressed again in later sections of this report. 2.5.1 Cost/Pricing Rate surveys are a common practice in the evaluations conducted by cities when considering whether to implement organized collection. As noted previously, it is common for these studies to report that rates paid by households in organized systems are less than those paid in open systems. This subsection provides highlights from a few of the data sources. 2.5.1.1 City of Falcon Heights Exhibit 2-1 is a rate comparison provided in the city of Falcon Heights Organized Collection Study: Final Report.24 24 "Organized Collection Study: Final Report." Oct. 2004. City of Falcon Heights, Minnesota. 30 •Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC R - Analysis of Waste Collection Service Arrangements.doc June 2009