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• TO: Bruce Anderson FROM: Rita Docken DATE: May 20, 1985 RE: Recycling As you are probably aware, the company serving Mounds View--Recycling Unlimited--is no longer doing recycling in Ramsey County. Don Pauley asked me to look into other providers to see what is available. Katy Boone of the Metro Council informed me that there is up to 50¢/household available for recycling. There will be a meeting on the proposal rules Wednesday, May 22 at the Met Council . Ms. Boone tole me to contact Rick Hlavka of Ramsey County Environmental Center. He stated that they also have landfill surcharge funds available-- again, up to 50¢/household. They would like us to commit some of our recyclables to their center so those details would need to be worked out. He would like to see the hours at our compost site expanded and I think that would be possible by working closely with Mounds View volunteer groups. I am proposing that a committee be formed consisting of civic groups 11111 in Mounds View. If six groups responded, each group would go to the compost/recyling site every six weeks. This would not place undue effort on any particular group and would hopefully reduce the burn out so often experienced with volunteers. If money were generated from these efforts, it would be divided equally among all parties participating. I would like to see the recycling center he a part of the Ardan Hills Park compost site. Champlin is currently running a center in a 32' x 40' area which encloses a small trailer for newspapers and a building (14' x 22' ) to house the barrels and bins for aluminum, steel , glass, and plastic. I foresee having the site open every Saturday from 9-1, year around. The area where I see the most money being generated is waste oil recovery. There is a 350=gallon underground tank located near the main- tenance garage. It is drained at approximately six month intervals and the oil is sold for 12¢/gallon. I have found a dealer who will drain the tank and pay us 38¢/gallon. If it were open to the public (again on a limited time basis to control what is actually dumped into the tank) we could perhaps make this a self supportive program. Discussions with various recyclers and townships provided various other options for our recyclables. One recycler would charge us $10-12/ ton to provide permanent dumpsters with a call-when-full pick up service. Another group currently serving Blaine and Mounds View, Minnesota Soft 111/1 Drink Recycle (MSD) , buys plastic one- and two-liter pop bottles and aluminum and steel pop and beer cans only. (They will accept glass and aluminum if we deliver it. They do not take paper. ) They serve Country Club Food stores and Cub Foods so they have a pretty good market because they pay for these items.