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STAFF REPORT . To: Mayor and City Council Report No.: From: Kim Moore -Sykes, Assistant City Manager Date: June13, 2006 Sub)ect: Single Sort Recycling and Proposed Language Change to City's Garbage Hauler Ordinance Background: On April 17th, Staff met with representatives of the garbage haulers that do business in the City to discuss the possibility to change the City's Ordinance language to allow recycling pick up every other week to accommodate single -sort recycling. All of the haulers agreed that they would like to have the City Council consider a language change in the Ordinance to allow for the bi-weekly pick up of recycla.bles. Garbage would continue to be picked up on a weekly basis. The meeting with the haulers was the result of an initial report from Waste Management that Walter's Recycling was violating the City's ordinance. Waste Management had reported that Walter's was not doing weekly recycling pick-up but were implementing a single sort program and picking up their customer's commingled recycling materials every other week. In discussing this report with Mr. Sederstrom of Walter's Recycling, he admitted that he was doing single sort pick-up every other week based on what he was told "a couple of years ago" by City staff indicating that he could do single -sort in St. Anthony. Staff advised Mr. Sederstrom that according to the Ordinance, he was required to pick up recycling once a week, despite the method offered to and used by their customers for recycling. Mr. Sederstrom indicated that collecting the single -sort recycling every week is not cost effective and asked what he could do to change the ordinance. We discussed the process involved in changing the ordinance and the haulers were told that proposing a change did not guarantee that the Council would approve the requested change. Mr. Sederstrom was also advised that if and until the language is changed, Walter's would still have to pick up his customer's recycling on a weekly basis. Mr. Sederstrom volunteered to survey his customers in St. Anthony to determine the satisfaction level of his customers with Walter's single source recycling program. Copies of those surveys are available in the Assistant City Manager's office for your information. Summary of Survey Mr. Sederstrom mailed 706 surveys to his customers and received 429 back (61%). 1. Overall Convenience of program: Good & Excellent Responses: 2. Opinion of Single Sort Cart: Good dam' Excellent Re pones. 3. Bi -weekly Cart Capacity: Good & Excellent Responses. - 4. Program Easy to Understand: Good & Excellent Responses• Poor Good Excellent No Response 5(1%) 115(27%) 309 (72%) -0- 424 (99%) 6 (1%) 79 (180/6) 277 (650/,) 67 (16%) 356(830/,) 8(20/o) 118 (28%) 268(62%) 35 (08%) 386 (90%) 5 (1%) 127(290/,) 234(55%) 62(15%) 348(84%) FAStaff Reports\05302006 Single Sort Recycling Ord Rev.doc 11