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Page 5 <br />2.20.Organics Recycling <br />Organics include specific food waste as defined by Hennepin County and Ramsey County. The <br />curbside Collection of source-separated Organic materials from each participating Household and <br />transport to a Transfer Station or Composting Facility. The City has made no decisions yet about the <br />specific method of collecting these materials, and planning will continue with the assistance of <br />Hennepin County and Ramsey County. <br />2.21.Participation Rate <br />A record of which specific Households on a Recycling route set out recyclable material at some <br />point during a defined period of time (usually one month) as a percentage of the overall number of <br />eligible Households. <br />2.22.Process Residuals <br />The material that cannot be economically recycled due to material characteristics such as size, <br />shape, color, cross-material contamination, etc. and must be disposed of as mixed municipal solid <br />waste. Process Residuals include but not limited to Bulky Wastes, contaminants, sorted tailings, <br />floor sweepings and rejects from specific processing equipment (e.g. materials cleaned from <br />screens, etc.). Process Residuals do not include clean, separated products that are normally <br />processed and prepared for shipment to markets as commodities but are of relatively low value <br />because of depressed market demand conditions. <br />2.23.Processing <br />The sorting, volume reduction, baling, containment or other preparation of Recyclable Materials <br />delivered to the processing center for transportation or marketing purposes. <br />2.24.R&E Center <br />Ramsey/Washington Recycling & Energy Center, a waste processing facility owned and operated by <br />the Ramsey/Washington Recycling & Energy Board, located at 100 Red Rock Road, Newport <br />Minnesota. <br />2.25.Recyclable Materials or Recyclables <br />The portion of solid waste that is separated at the source by the generator for the purpose of <br />Recycling, and is comprised of materials deemed recyclable and included on the list of Required <br />Recyclable Materials in Contract Exhibit, Recyclable Materials List and any other materials agreed <br />upon by the Contractor and City in the future or as part of contract negotiations. Also referred to as <br />Recycling. <br />2.26.Refuse <br />The portion of solid waste that is not separated at the source by the generator for the purpose of <br />reuse, Recycling, or Yard Waste composting.