Ramsey Resident - 2024 - Winter Recycler

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Christmas Tree Preparation of Recyclables Disposal Options for Curbside Pickup Looking for disposal options for • Do not place recyclables in plastic bags.Place them your Christmas tree after the holidays? loose in your recycling cart or in paper bags. Both of Anoka County's compost • Do not include"tanglers"in your cart,such as hoses, sites accept live Christmas trees,with cords,chains,wires,ropes or string lights. all ornaments and lights removed, • Excess recyclables that do not fit in your recycling throughout the year.More information cart can be brought to ACE Solid Waste's Customer can be found at www anokacountymn. Convenience Center,located on 141st Avenue NW, gov/359/Compost-Sites.Alternatively, just west of Basalt Street NW.For more information, please contact your garbage hauler for visit wwwcityoframsey.com/recycling. additional disposal options. Tracking Ramsey's Recycling Goal Residents of Ramsey continue to do an amazing job recycling. Annual Residential Recycling Tonnage The City of Ramsey is again on track to meet the annual tonnage 4,000 goal set by Anoka County.But please don't toss items into the 3,500 recycling cart,hoping they can be recycled.If you are unsure 3,000 whether an item is accepted in the curbside recycling program, 2 2,500 please visit www.cityoframsey.com/Recycling,or call either theW 2,000 Senior Planner Chris Anderson at 763-433-9817 or ACE Solid o 1,300 Waste at 763-427-3110.Placing items in the recycling cart that ~ 1,000 are not accepted can contaminate the recycling stream,degrade 500 the recyclability of a material,or worse,render an entire bale of 0 material unrecyclable.Interested in how to recycle even more? 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024(through September If so,please see page 4 for information on the City's organics ■Tonnage Goa! ■Tons Recycled recycling drop-off program. Minnesota Waste Wise Success Story The Catholic Church of St. Katharine Drexel St.Katharine Drexel,a Catholic church in Ramsey,had been interested in reducing the amount of materials ending up in the landfill,recognizing that there was a better outlet for it. Ih Randy Bauer,a church deacon,worked with Waste Wise and applied for funding V for new,color-coded recycling and organics bins,along with a six-month supply of compostable bags,and compostable cups,plates and utensils."Our social justice committee looked at how much we were throwing in the trash and realized most was food waste,"Bauer commented."We were recycling,but educating helped us improve our recycling and make our organics successful." Improving their recycling and adding organics really made a difference."The , reduction in our garbage bill was huge!"Bauer noted, "Trash used to be full when �� it was picked up every week and now there are just three or so I 1 bags."The Church is diverting an estimated 7,228 pounds of _ recycling and 10,400 of organics each year and may have made further changes."The majority of our congregation was excited and wondered how they might be able to do organics at home too,"Bauer said. WASTEWLSE Ramsey -r I Winter 2024