Agenda - Council - 05/08/1990 - Laserfiche WebLink

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TYPE A The Type A program would allow for the licensed hauler to provide recycling service for their current customers. A brief outline of this type of program follows: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Haulers provide service to current customers. City will supply containers. Service will be provided the same day as current refuse service. Materials collected will be glass, newsprint, metal cans, and aluminum. Volume based charging system would be required. City would reimburse the haulers for 50% of the cost of the service. Based on total customers serviced in Ramsey. The following is a break down of each of the areas of the proposed recycling program. A resident's current hauler will continue to provide refuse and recycling service to each of its current and future customers. This will allow for the refuse hauler to bill each of the residents for the service that it provides. The provision of the billing function will reduce the total cost of the program fo~ the City. Based upon the returned surveys all but one of the current service providers are able to provide recycling and the hauler that currently cannot will be able to do so in the near future. The following chart shows the total cost of the city providing containers for each household in the City: ESTIMATED COST PER CONTAINER $7.00 NUMBER OF CONTAINERS REQUIRED 3 ~ 6 4 1 COST OF CONTAINERS $ 2 5 ~ 4 8 7.0 0 COUNTY REIMBURSEMENT ($18~205.00) CITY'S NET COST FOR CONTAINERS $ 7 ~ 2 8 2.0 0 With the net cost to the city for containers being $7,282.00 the city would have to find funds for this cost. Use of additional landfill abatement funds from Anoka County may be a source. The suggested container would be similar to the one currently being used in the pilot program area. This container would be approximately 15" by 20" and 13" in depth. The containers would need to be ordered about 3 months before they are to be distributed. The recycling service could be provided the same day as the current refuse service allowing for the residents to place all refuse curbside only one day a week. The city may seek to reduce the frequency of the service that is provided to the residents in the future. All of the current licensed haulers stated that they would be able to handle these materials and they are the most common materials recycled throughout the area. One of the responding haulers stated their need for the city to provide access to a transfer station for the recycled materials. In the future the City may decide to require haulers to provide yard waste pickup during the year. A volume based charging system would allow for the residents to reduce the cost of refuse service by the their participation in the recycling program. This system could be installed as a condition of being licensed to haul refuse in the City of Ramsey.