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C\I materials from a variety of sources. one of these activities is beverage destruction, for which Super Cycle is licensed to handle alcoholic beverages and also disposes of other non- alcoholic liquids. Liquids are drained into the sewer, while the glass bottles and cardboard boxes are recycled. - a recycling directory that is currently under development will be distributed. This directory will be used to encourage the recycling of office paper, cardboard, glass, yard waste and other materials by the commercial/industrial sector. If these efforts prove insufficient to increase C/I recycling to an acceptable level, a mandatory ordinance will considered. An ordinance modeled after the Opportunity to ^.ecycle may be feasible, or a requirement tha_ garbage Saulers p:)vide service may be considered for adoption by Ramsey County if successful for other counties. Ramsey County staff will also collect information form other areas on mandatory source separation ordinances for the C/I sector, but at this time there appears to be very little experience to draw upon for this type of ordinance. V. MATERIALS TO BE RECYCLED A. Residential Recycling Programs The following materials will be collected for recycling through the curbside program: newspaper, glass and cans. These are the materials required by the opportunity to Recycle policy. Tha ra vyLa6G, a,. nVllle ai eas may collect aCClltlOndl materials, SUCK a6 waste oil, car batteries, scrap metal and plastic bottles. Most programs also collect cardboard. In other words, no substantial changes are being proposed in the materials collected through the curbside routes. Maplewood and white Bear Township are collecting plastic bottles through their curbside recycling programs. white Bear Township's hauler, Lake Sanitation, collects PET bottles and 11aplewood's collector, Gopher Sanitation, accepts milk bottles. No data is available on the cost of collecting plastic bottles through these curbside programs, but this issue was examined by County staff in mid-1933 in response to a proposal by the Natioi.al Association for Plastic Container Recovery (NAPCOR) to add plastic containers to the curbside routes.. NAPCOR is a trade association formed to pror.,ote the recycling of Plastic bot•cles. Although NAPCOR's proposal to assis` in developing a system for collection and marketing plastic containers appeared interesting, County staff cecided not to pursue this idea after calculating that curbside recycling of plastic bottles would cost $500.00 to $700.00 per ton. This figure is based the additional cost of collection (from Super Cycle's pilot program in Saint Louis Park) minus expected market revenues (from NAPCOR). The high cost per ton is, of course, a function of the low density of the plastic containers and the %e