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Page 3 <br />Minnesota Electronics Recycling Act. <br />2.14.Every-Other-Week Refuse Collection (or EOW Refuse Collection) <br />The every-other-week Collection of Refuse from Customers who meet City requirements, having <br />Small (approximately 35 gallons) Refuse service. EOW Refuse Collection occurs in the same week as <br />the Customers’ Recycling Collection. The City reserves the right to change Recycling Collection <br />schedule to weekly. <br />2.15.Extra Collection <br />The additional Collection of regular household Refuse, Recycling, or Yard Waste outside of the <br />regularly scheduled Collection day. Extra Collections are arranged between the Contractor and <br />billed by the Contractor directly to the Customer. <br />2.16.Extended Absence or Refuse Hold <br />A temporary suspension of all solid waste services for an extended period of time, at minimum four <br />consecutive weeks. <br />2.17.HERC <br />Hennepin County Energy Recovery Center. A waste-to-energy facility located in Minneapolis that <br />burns Refuse to generate energy located at 505 N 6th Ave., Minneapolis. <br />2.18.Holidays <br />The City has designated six Holidays that will delay Collection. The designated Holidays include New <br />Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. If a <br />Holiday falls on the weekend, there will be no delayed Collection. If a Holiday falls during the week, <br />the Collection will be delayed by one day all week following the Holiday. <br />2.19.Household <br />An individual dwelling unit in a single-family or multi-family residentialbuilding of three dwelling <br />units or less that is eligible for Solid Waste Services provided by the City’s Contractor. <br />2.20.Organics Recycling <br />Organics include specific food waste as defined by Hennepin County and Ramsey County. Organics <br />Recyclying is the curbside Collection of source-separated Organic materials from each participating <br />Household and transport to a Transfer Station or Composting Facility. The City has made no <br />decisions yet about the specific method of collecting these materials, and planning will continue <br />with the assistance of 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 />118