County Waste Management Profiles. Minnesota Solid Waste Administrators Association

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1 Minnesota Solid Waste Administrators Association

2 Table of Contents Aitkin 3 Anoka 4 Becker 5 Beltrami 6 Benton 7 Big Stone 8 Blue Earth 9 Brown 10 Carlton 11 Carver 12 Cass 13 Chippewa 14 Chisago 15 Clay 16 Clearwater 17 Cook 18 Cottonwood 19 Crow Wing 20 Dakota 21 Dodge 22 Douglas (see Pope) 62 Faribault 23 Fillmore 24 Freeborn 25 Goodhue 26 Grant 27 Hennepin 28 Houston 29 Hubbard 30 Isanti 31 Itasca 32 Jackson 33 Kanabec 34 Kandiyohi 35 Kittson 36 Koochiching 37 Lac qui Parle 38 Lake 39 Lake of the Woods 40 Le Sueur 41 Lincoln 42 Lyon 43 Mahnomen 44 Marshall 45 Martin 46 McLeod 47 Meeker 48 Mille Lacs 49 Morrison 50 Mower 51 Murray 52 Nicollet 53 Nobles 54 Norman 55 Olmsted 56 Otter Tail 57 Pennington 58 Pine 59 Pipestone 60 Polk 61 Pope/Douglas 62 Ramsey 63 Red Lake 64 Redwood 65 Renville 66 Rice 67 Rock 68 Roseau 69 Scott 70 Sherburne 71 Sibley 72 St. Louis (see also WLSSD) 73 Stearns 74 Steele 75 Stevens 76 Swift 77 Todd 78 Traverse 79 Wabasha 80 Wadena 81 Waseca 82 Washington 83 Watonwan 84 Wilkin 85 Winona 86 WLSSD 87 Wright 88 Yellow Medicine 89 1

3 Introduction Minnesota Solid Waste Administrators Association The Minnesota Solid Waste Administrators Association (SWAA) Survey was conducted during January and February 2009, and compiled during February and March County Solid Waste Administrators were e mailed an online survey; those not responding were e mailed reminders. In addition to the online survey, additional data was used from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, The Minnesota State Demographer s Office, and The Minnesota State Auditor s Office. The sources for each piece of data included in this report are detailed below. In August 2009, County Solid Waste Administrators were e mailed a second survey, requesting one additional piece of information to complete the project. At that same time, those who had not yet completed the initial survey were given one more opportunity to do so. Participation Out of 87 Minnesota Counties and the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD), a total of 78 surveys were completed. The response rate for this survey was 88 percent. Sources The following information was obtained through the initial online survey: County Solid Waste Administrator Name and Contact Information Facilities and Services in the County The following information was obtained through the State Demographer s Office website: Population 10 Year Growth Projection The following information was obtained through both the State Auditor s website: 2007 Tax Levy per Capita The following information was obtained through the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Report on 2007 SCORE Programs: Services 2007 Waste Management Methods The following information was obtained through the second online survey: Total Waste Management Expenses The photographs included in the survey were submitted by the County Solid Waste Administrators completing the survey in each county. 1

4 Updates to the Report In January 2011, the names and contact information for all County Solid Waste Administrators were reviewed and updated. 2

5 Aitkin County Municipal Waste Landfill Waste to Energy Facility Solid Waste Compost Facility Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 16, Year Growth Projection: 14.3% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $278, $278, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $3, Other Grants: $2, Total Local Expenses: $220, Aitkin Aitkin County Environmental Services Terry Neff, Environmental Services Director nd Street NW Aitkin, MN tneff@co.aitkin.mn.us Solid waste collection services are provided by the private sector, which operates their own transfer stations. A demolition landfill is located in the County and is owned and operated by a private company. The County owns a recycling center and contracts out the operation and collection services. Household hazardous waste services are provided by two mobile collection events per year and a clean shop event is held annually for small businesses. The County holds problem material collection events for citizens. A: Spend more time visiting businesses and doing waste audits; provide more permanent, convenient locations for drop off recyclable materials; and increase time spent on educating citizens. A: A part of our program that has been especially successful has been our efforts to educate grade school age kids on waste reduction and recycling. Total Tons Generated: 12,625 Tons Landfilled: 9,529 Tons Recycled: 2,558 Recycling Rate: 20.3 Tons Not Collected: 275 3

6 Anoka Anoka County Integrated Waste Management Brad Fields, Director rd Avenue Anoka, MN brad.fields@co.anoka.mn.us 4 Elk River Resource Recovery Facility Anoka County s waste management system is designed to successfully support county, regional and state goals of protecting the environment and public health. The system includes resource recovery, two yard waste management facilities, a household hazardous waste facility, curbside recycling for all residents and combination of public and private recycling centers. your county s recycling rate to 60%? A: Provide more full service drop off recycling centers throughout the county and assist the multi unit housing and commercial/industrial/institution sector in helping them develop and enhance their recycling programs. action you have taken or are planning to take: A: Processing 85% of available waste remaining after recycling. Recycling programs have benefited greatly through a collaborative effort of county, municipalities, haulers and industry representatives at our monthly Solid Waste Abatement Advisory Task Force meetings. Our Solid Waste Abatement Advisory Task Force provides a forum for open discussion and sharing ideas to maintain and enhance our recycling programs. Each year the county attempts to focus on our efforts on areas to improve a specific sector of recycling programs. Recently the county worked with recycling service providers and municipalities on multi unit recycling and curbside recycling enhancement. Anoka County Solid Waste Compost Facility Recycling Center Recycling Drop off Depots Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 331, Year Growth Projection: 19.6% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $1,947, State SCORE Grant: $765, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Other Grants: $129, Total Local Expenses: $1,052, Total Tons Generated: 334,968 Tons Landfilled: 61,130 Tons Recycled: 145,373 Recycling Rate: 43.4% Tons Resource Recovery: 120,161 Tons Not Collected: 0

7 Becker County Municipal Waste Landfill Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 32, Year Growth Projection: 15.4% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $497, State SCORE Grant: $74, State HHW Grant: $48, Total Local Expenses: $374, Total Tons Generated: 30,701 Tons Landfilled: 17,896 Tons Recycled: 11,767 Recycling Rate: 38.3% Tons Not Collected: 252 Becker Becker County Environmental Services Steve Skoog, Administrator of Environmental Services/County Assessor Co Hwy Detroit Lakes, MN Becker County Transfer Station A: Mandate recycling and provide economic incentives by setting up a program to purchase recyclable materials. Becker County Household Hazardous Waste Facility 5

8 Beltrami Beltrami County Environmental Services Bill Patnaude, Environmental Services Director 701 Minnesota Ave. NW, suite Bemidji, MN Beltrami County has a six year contract for MSW services with Polk County and the Fosston incinerator. Beltrami County has a four year contract with waste management of Minnesota for providing the day to day collection and processing and transporting Beltrami county s MSW to the Fosston incinerator and the rest of the MSW waste stream to the Gwinner Landfill located in Gwinner, North Dakota. Beltrami County also participates with eight other counties in the NWHHW joint powers board located in Bagley, Minnesota. 6 A: Implement mandatory curb side collection. A: The County s solid waste service fee program has been very successful. Residential homes, apartments, mobile homes, and cabins are charged a solid waste service fee on their real estate tax statement. The commercial businesses are handled by a separate accounts receivable. Services are available to all county residents for the proper handling and disposal of their solid waste. The contract arrangement with Polk county for the operation of the Polk County solid waste incinerator and the participation on the advisory board with Polk and the other three counties, keep our overall cost in line. The eight county household hazardous waste joint powers board located in Bagley, Minnesota has been successful, as has the cost effectiveness in providing a sound system for the proper collection and disposal of our residents household hazardous waste. We will be putting together a citizen resource guide which will provide our citizens will all the information in one booklet of the services available to them for their proper handling and disposal of their household solid waste, ways to reduce waste, how they can help in recycling, and where they can bring items that they longer have use for. Beltrami County County owned or operated Cooperation with other county/city Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 43, Year Growth Projection: 18.0% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $2,800, $569, State SCORE Grant: $100, State HHW Grant: $8, Total Local Expenses: $460, Total Tons Generated: 33,342 Tons Landfilled: 12,941 Tons Recycled: 7,019 Recycling Rate: 21.1% Tons Resource Recovery: 12,378 Tons Not Collected: 0

9 Benton County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 39, Year Growth Projection: 25.2% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $260, State SCORE Grant: $90, State HHW Grant: $1, Total Local Expenses: $169, Benton Benton County Department of Development Mark McNamara, Program Lead Wetlands/Solid Waste 531 Dewey Street, PO Box Foley, MN Benton County provides pickup service for all residents. We have contracts with haulers, who utilize transfer stations and haul waste to various locations (Elk River etc.). Most of our recycling occurs via the private sector, which provides these services to the public. Benton County utilizes a solid waste service fee which in 2007 generated $154,000; which can be used for solid waste management in the county. A: Staffing is our greatest challenge. Benton County has decided that this is a 1/2 time position therefore we do facility and hauler licensing and two or three Amnesty days, 1 2 HHW collections and SCORE. A: I think our HHW and Amnesty day collections have been wonderfully successful. People in the county really appreciate this service Total Tons Generated: 68,522 Tons Landfilled: 9,740 Tons Recycled: 44,749 Recycling Rate: 65.3% Tons Resource Recovery: 10,313 Tons Not Collected: 2,728 7

10 Big Stone Big Stone County Environmental Services Darren Wilke, Environmental Officer 20 SE 2 nd Street Ortonville, MN darren_w@co.big stone.mn.us 8 Big Stone County e-waste collection In Big Stone County, cities within the county contract with private businesses to provide solid waste collection. Rural residents can also contract for waste collection. Single sort curbside recycling is contracted county wide with a private business. The county pays for that service, as well as subsidizing commercial recycling. Hazardous waste collections are conducted using county staff and equipment. E waste collections are organized by county staff and conducted with contracted private businesses. A: It is a goal within reach if we had staff to concentrate on educating school children, as well as working closely with businesses in the County to make sure they are doing all they can to be environmentally and economically business wise. A: We implemented a Hazardous Waste Mobile Unit in This has decreased labor costs all while increasing participation and proper management of hazardous waste. We recently switched to curbside single sort recycling. We noticed a huge increase in participation and rates immediately. Big Stone County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 5, Year Growth Projection: 1.4% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Total County Waste Management Expense: 2007: $225, $194, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $2, Total Local Expenses: $ Total Tons Generated: 4,637 Tons Landfilled: 2,423 Tons Recycled: 1,224 Recycling Rate: 26.4% Tons Not Collected: 881

11 Blue Earth County County owned or operated Cooperation with other county/city Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 59, Year Growth Projection: 6.3% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $356, State SCORE Grant: $137, State HHW Grant: $62, Total Local Expenses: $157, Blue Earth Blue Earth County Environmental Services Scott Fichtner, Director of Environmental Services 410 South 5 th Street, Box Mankato, MN earth.mn.us scott.fichtner@co.blue earth.mn.us Blue Earth County Household Hazardous Waste Regional Collection Facility Blue Earth County works with the Minnesota Waste Processing Co. to transfer public entity waste to RRT for processing into Refuse Derived Fuel that is burned at the Xcel Energy Wilmarth Power Plant. The county owns the Landfill for the disposal. A: Blue Earth County is just implementing a disposal program for home sharps Total Tons Generated: 114,285 Tons Landfilled: 19,999 Tons Recycled: 75,268 Recycling Rate: 65.9% Tons Resource Recovery: 17,021 Tons Not Collected: 1,343 9

12 Brown Brown County Solid Waste Laine Sletta, Soild Waste Officer 14 South State Street, PO Box New Ulm, MN Brown County Landfill Entrance In Brown County, the county owned landfill is operated by private (contract) firm. We have two privately owned demo landfills in the county. Two private firms conduct recycling in the county through curb side collections, drop off points and two recycling centers. We also provide collections for e waste and HHW, including paint and fluorescent bulbs. A: Our rate in 2007 was 60.9% with credits A: Recycling rates have been pretty good for several years. Our haulers do a great job and provide good service to our citizens. We have started to use an alternative daily cover at the landfill that seems to work out well. Brown County Yard Waste Compost Facility Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 26, Year Growth Projection: 1.1% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $600, $399, State SCORE Grant: $61, State HHW Grant: $3, Total Local Expenses: $334, Total Tons Generated: 33,627 Tons Landfilled: 12,673 Tons Recycled: 17,863 Recycling Rate: 53.1% Tons Resource Recovery: 948 Tons Not Collected: 1,480

13 Carlton County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Carlton Carlton County Planning & Zoning and Solid Waste Bruce Benson, Solid Waste Administrator PO Box Carlton, MN Carlton County also operates a transfer station and drop off recycling sheds. A: Pay for materials. Population: 33, Year Growth Projection: 23.8% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $1,126, $213, State SCORE Grant: $79, State HHW Grant: $8, Other Grants: $12, Total Local Expenses: $112, Total Tons Generated: 20,513 Tons Landfilled: 13,278 Tons Recycled: 5,699 Recycling Rate: 27.8% Tons Not Collected:

14 Carver Carver County Environmental Services Marcus Zbinden, Environmental Specialist 600 East 4 th Street Chaska, MN mzbinden@co.carver.mn.us Carver County s Residential Organics Collection Program Carver County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 88, Year Growth Projection: 37.5% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ A: Require haulers to offer curbside recycling collection throughout the non incorporated areas A: In 2007, Carver County began implementation of a demonstration project for the collection and composting of residential and commercial organics with yard waste. The overall goal was to demonstrate the economic and environmental viability of commingled collection and composting of yard waste and organics at a yard waste compost site using the static pile method of composting. The program has expanded to include two sites and seven cities in Carver County. The organics collection program initiated in Carver County is being utilized as a model for others to replicate similar programs throughout the State. 2007: No Resoponse $905, State SCORE Grant: $200, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Other Grants: $92, Total Local Expenses: $611, Total Tons Generated: 100,430 Tons Landfilled: 49,945 Tons Recycled: 44,426 Recycling Rate: 44.2% Tons Resource Recovery: 3,555 Tons Not Collected: 294

15 Cass County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 28, Year Growth Projection: 19.3% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $807, State SCORE Grant: $67, State HHW Grant: $7, Total Local Expenses: $733, Total Tons Generated: 30,789 Tons Landfilled: 17,481 Tons Recycled: 12,817 Recycling Rate: 41.6% Tons Not Collected: 0 Cass Cass County Environmental Services Department Paul Fairbanks, Solid Waste Administrator 303 Minnesota Ave. W, PO Box Walker, MN paul.fairbanks@co.cass.mn.us Cass County recycling bins can be found at 29 locations around the county. MSW goes to transfer station for disposal at out of county landfills. Drop off containers for recycling located county throughout the county. your county s recycling rate to 60%? A: Increase and improve disbursement of program information to the public action you have taken or are planning to take: A: Cass, Crow Wing, and Hubbard counties have teamed up with the Minnesota Materials Exchange program to offer opportunities to reduce waste and to reuse materials in northern Minnesota. The materials exchange (MATEX) program is based on the concept that one company's waste product could be another company's raw material. Through a Materials Exchange, companies and organizations can reduce their waste disposal costs by finding other companies, organizations, schools or individuals which could use these waste or surplus materials in their processes or programs. The main purpose of the exchange is to connect businesses and organizations that have reusable goods with those who need them. Individuals may participate as well. 13

16 Chippewa Chippewa County Land & Resource Management Scott Williams, Director 629 North 11 th Street Montevideo, MN A: Provide more rural curb side pickup Chippewa County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection 14 Population: 12, Year Growth Projection: 2.3% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $125, $185, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $2, Total Local Expenses: $130, Total Tons Generated: 13,387 Tons Landfilled: 8,793 Tons Recycled: 2,714 Recycling Rate: 20.3% Tons Not Collected: 1,679

17 Chisago County County owned or operated Cooperation with other county/city Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 50, Year Growth Projection: 41.4% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $303, State SCORE Grant: $116, State HHW Grant: $27, Other Grants: $5, Total Local Expenses: $153, Total Tons Generated: 33,824 Tons Landfilled: 23,803 Tons Recycled: 8,309 Recycling Rate: 24.6% Tons Resource Recovery: 20 Tons Not Collected: 420 Chisago Chisago County Environmental Services and Zoning Lisa Thibodeau, Solid Waste Administrator Grand Avenue North Branch, MN Chisago County Household Hazardous Waste Facility Chisago County enforces its solid waste ordinance, issues solid waste licenses to haulers and facilities, audits recycling routes and inspects SW facilities. We also provide education on SW reduction and HHW related issues to schools, residents and local businesses. We operate a year around HHW facility, and coordinate and subsidize a program for residents to recycle tires, appliances, mattresses and electronics with local private recyclers at reasonable costs. your county s recycling rate to 60%? A: More staff time to visit with local businesses and institutions to help them analyze their operations in order to figure out ways to improve their performance in resource use, energy consumption, waste reduction, and recycling. action you have taken or are planning to take: A: Our HHW facility has steadily grown in use every year since its opening. Our Unwanted Medications Collection and Disposal Program has been a huge success, showing it is a needed service for this up and coming issue, and is being administered without much cost to the county's solid waste budget. In the coming year we would like to look at expanding yard waste availability to all county residents, closing the loop and promoting recycled product purchasing, partnering with other entities to clean up local solid waste problems, and expanding our residential materials exchange opportunities. 15

18 Clay Clay County Environmental Programs Kathy Maher, Solid Waste Manager 807 North 11 th Street Moorhead, MN Clay County Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Clay County operates an MSW landfill and is exploring regional opportunities. Clay County also operates an HHW facility, which includes waste oil and filter collection. The County operates recycling centers within the small cities, as well as provides other drop off sites for recyclables, oil filters, electronics, and other items. The city of Moorhead offers curbside recycling to its residents. A: We would set up materials recovery operations at our landfill. We would add businesses to our curbside recycling services. A: As part of our materials recovery and exchange program, we recover wood and other reusable materials/manufactured items from the Demo Landfill and offer them to citizens. Our auto salvage program offers a free of charge solution to citizens, who have junk vehicles. The County has installed an active gas collection system to capture methane gas for energy use. We hope to obtain approval for leachate recirculation through our current permit renewal. Clay County Recycling Curbside Collection Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 55, Year Growth Projection: 10.6% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $2,117, $669, State SCORE Grant: $127, State HHW Grant: $11, Total Local Expenses: $530, Total Tons Generated: 48,252 Tons Landfilled: 26,795 Tons Recycled: 19,774 Recycling Rate: 41.0% Tons Not Collected: 833

19 Clearwater County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 8, Year Growth Projection: 6.9% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $609, $135, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $5, Total Local Expenses: $77, Total Tons Generated: 5,383 Tons Landfilled: 987 Tons Recycled: 1,049 Recycling Rate: 19.5% Tons Resource Recovery: 3,030 Tons Not Collected: 126 Clearwater Clearwater County Environmental Services Daniel Hecht, Environmental Services Administrator 213 Main Ave. N Bagley, MN dan.hecht@co.clearwater.mn.us Clearwater County Landfill/Sentenced to Service Shop Building Clearwater County cooperates with Polk, Beltrami, Norman and Mahnomen counties to operate the Polk County Resource Recovery Facility for processing and disposal of MSW. Clearwater County also operates a demolition debris landfill and transfer station, and shares in operation of an HHW facility. your county s recycling rate to 60%? A: I would focus on efficient and effective processing methods at the end of each waste stream, including MSW, industrial and demolition debris. A: Our cooperative effort with Polk County, beginning in 1988, at the Fosston Incinerator and Resource Recovery plant has been extremely successful in processing waste to recover recyclables and utilizing the remaining waste to generate energy in the form of steam. Polk County Resource Recovery is now experimenting with recycling incinerator ash into bituminous mix as a substitute for aggregate in road construction. 17

20 Cook Cook County Planning and Zoning Timothy Nelson, Solid Waste Administrator 411 West Second Street Grand Marais, MN A: Implement a comprehensive collection program for the rural areas of the county. A: Our remote recycling drop off sites. Cook County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection 18 Population: 5, Year Growth Projection: 12.3% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $300, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $248, Total Tons Generated: 6,416 Tons Landfilled: 4,760 Tons Recycled: 1,498 Recycling Rate: 23.3% Tons Not Collected: 30

21 Cottonwood County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 11, Year Growth Projection: 3.9% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Cottonwood Cottonwood County Highway/Solid Waste Ronald Gregg, County Engineer/Solid Waste Administrator th Avenue Windom, MN ron.gregg@co.cottonwood.mn.us Cottonwood County owns a landfill. Recycling is picked up on the curb by county employees. There is a HHW facility at the landfill, run by county forces. A: Go to single stream. A: E waste collection and HHW collections have been especially successful. We plan to offer more education at the school level to promote recycling. 2007: No Response $228, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $176, Total Tons Generated: 13,850 Tons Landfilled: 6,297 Tons Recycled: 6,289 Recycling Rate: 45.4% Tons Not Collected: 1,006 19

22 Crow Wing Crow Wing County Waste Management Douglas Morris, Waste Management Director State Highway Brainerd, MN wing.mn.us wing.mn.us Many elements of the counties integrated solid waste system are located at the County's 540 acre Solid Waste Disposal site. It operates under the one stop service concept. This is the location of our MMS landfill, C&D landfill, one of the nine drop off sites for used oil/filters and antifreeze (note we have 9 sites located throughout the county to provide opportunities for people to properly dispose of these items), lead acid collection container, recycling drop off center (note there are 15 other locations throughout the county), used electronic collection area, mattress collection area, household appliance/scrap metal collection area, used tire collection area, yard waste composting operation, brush disposal area, HHW facility with a product exchange. Our goal is maximum recovery and to encourage residential participation convenient times, locations and ease of disposal are key features to our programs. Note the County does address problem material, but we try to complement area retailer programs to ensure indepth coverage. A: Already over 60% once you include credits. Still would like to expand hours of operations for drop off sites. Some are not 24/7. Collection is not the biggest issue, having valid and good paying markets for this material is. High value drives higher recycling rates. A: The installation of 9 drop off sites for used oil/filter and antifreeze county wide. This year these programs took in 39,000 gallon of used oil or 16% of the total used oil generated within the county. Figure 22% generated by do it yourself. So we are addressing the majority of this oil and keeping it out of the environment. We are also providing a direct technical assistance to businesses wishing to lower their garbage bill using a variety of methods including resource management contracting. 20 Crow Wing County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 61, Year Growth Projection: 19.6% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $3,914, $648, State SCORE Grant: $141, State HHW Grant: $12, Total Local Expenses: $494, Total Tons Generated: 89,993 Tons Landfilled: 39,625 Tons Recycled: 48,747 Recycling Rate: 54.2% Tons Not Collected: 243

23 Dakota County County owned or operated Cooperation with other county/city Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 398, Year Growth Projection: 16.5% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $2,948, State SCORE Grant: $866, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $2,081, Dakota Dakota County Environmental Management Jeff Harthun, Environmental Management Director Galaxie Avenue West Apple Valley, MN your county s recycling rate to 60%? A: Establish an incentive program to enhance recycling, business loans to entice business recycling, modify development standards to include recycling areas, modify building codes for multi family dwellings to include recycling areas, modify building and road specs to include recycled content, implement food waste composting, add recycling drop off locations, enhance recycling education/promotions to describe and then enforce public entity laws, centralize County purchasing, ensure that all schools maximize recycling, and more. A: The County's Resource Management program, in which all Dakota County buildings recycle wastes using one waste hauler and receive payments for recycled materials, School District 196's food waste composting program, the Dakota County Recycling Zone's (our household hazardous waste and recycling center) increased participation with electronics collection, the fact that this recycling collection center has the lowest cost/participant in the Metro area, satellite CFL collection sites in cities in the County, adding sharps collection to the list of wastes accepted at the County's HHW collection center and at our one day collection events, and pharmacy waste customer education. A City of Farmington study to measure diversion rates for pre and post switch to single stream recycling, providing for a community recyclables container drop off program, and a school recycling project funded by the County. Total Tons Generated: 435,567 Tons Landfilled: 193,501 Tons Recycled: 199,130 Recycling Rate: 45.7% Tons Resource Recovery: 32,894 Tons Not Collected: 0 21

24 Dodge Dodge County Environmental Quality Mark Gamm, Environmental Director 22 6 th Street East, Dept Mantorville, MN mark.gamm@co.dodge.mn.us 22 Dodge County Transfer Station and Recycling Center Dodge County Cooperates with Olmsted County to convert garbage collected in both counties to steam and electricity generated at the Olmsted Facility in Rochester. Dodge has a mandatory recycling ordinance that requires licensed haulers to provide curbside collection service in cities. The County also provides 10 sites for public to drop off recyclable materials. A: Visit all businesses and government buildings and help them set up recycling, focusing on paper and organics. A: Our citizens are very supportive of our Waste to Energy System. We now provide a one stop service center for all recycling, composting, and waste disposal services. We passed a new Waste Designation Ordinance in On a trial basis, we are providing a direct technical assistance to businesses wishing to lower their garbage bill using a variety of methods including resource management contracting. Dodge County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 19, Year Growth Projection: 18.1% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $1,147, $379, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $327, Total Tons Generated: 15,974 Tons Landfilled: 4,832 Tons Recycled: 5,868 Recycling Rate: 36.7% Tons Resource Recovery: 3,914 Tons Not Collected: 884

25 Faribault County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 15, Year Growth Projection: 1.6% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Total County Waste Management Budget: 2007: No Response $68, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $16, Total Tons Generated: 16,434 Tons Landfilled: 120 Tons Recycled: 6,308 Recycling Rate: 38.4% Tons MSW Compost: 7,451 Tons Not Collected: 2,180 Faribault Faribault County Solid Waste Bonita Hagedorn PO Box Blue Earth, MN All of the garbage from Martin and Faribault Counties goes to the Prairieland Compost Facility, which is owned by both counties. Faribault and Martin Counties, in a joint powers agreement, operate the Prairieland Compost Facility in Truman, MN. The majority of the municipal solid waste from the two counties goes to this facility and is made into compost which is used on farm fields, in landscaping, to compost dead livestock, and for cattle bedding. A: I would like to be able to provide more education to the residents. A: The recycling drop sites throughout the county have been very successful. 23

26 Fillmore Fillmore County Solid Waste Jon Martin, Solid Waste Administrator P.O. Box Preston, MN Fillmore County operates a transfer station; about half of its waste goes to a landfill in Winneshiek County, Iowa and the other half goes to a landfill in Lake Mills, Iowa. The Lake Mills facility has a methane collection system that generates electricity for sale on the grid. A: Contact all Fillmore County businesses and work with them to get all material that can be recycled. A: Our household hazardous waste program even though we are not a full time facility has been very successful. The participation numbers keep steady and the amount of waste does not seem to decrease. Fillmore County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 21, Year Growth Projection: 4.8% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $588, $105, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $6, Other Grants: $5, Total Local Expenses: $41, Total Tons Generated: 12,109 Tons Landfilled: 4,843 Tons Recycled: 2,986 Recycling Rate: 24.7% Tons Resource Recovery: 760 Tons Not Collected: 3,022

27 Freeborn County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Freeborn Freeborn County Environmental Services Randy Tuchtenhagen, Solid Waste Officer 411 South Broadway Albert Lea, MN Population: 31, Year Growth Projection: 1.0% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $399, $416, State SCORE Grant: $74, State HHW Grant: $11, Total Local Expenses: $330, Total Tons Generated: 43,774 Tons Landfilled: 25,683 Tons Recycled: 16,999 Recycling Rate: 38.8% Tons Not Collected: 315 Freeborn County Mobile Household Hazardous Waste Unit Freeborn County utilizes privately owned refuse hauling and transfer station. The county has a county owned mobile HHW program. Both county and private electronic collection programs are in place. In 2007, the county collected 26,608 lbs of paint through 20 mobile collections with 2 staff. The county started a new small business recycling program that will pick up recycling materials at a business when the truck is on its residential route. Many businesses are signing up that have not previously recycled. A: Household hazardous waste electronic collections. 25

28 Goodhue Goodhue County Public Works Karl Nilsen, Solid Waste Official 2140 Pioneer Road PO Box Red Wing, MN Goodhue County Household Hazardous Waste Collection Cannon Falls, Goodhue County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 46, Year Growth Projection: 9.2% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response A: Educate, motivate, and provide incentives. $511, State SCORE Grant: $107, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $403, Total Tons Generated: 43,514 Tons Landfilled: 7,098 Tons Recycled: 15,457 Recycling Rate: 35.5% Tons Resource Recovery: 17,816 Tons Not Collected:

29 Grant County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Grant Grant County has not completed the survey. Population: 6, Year Growth Projection: 3.0% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $212, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $160, Total Tons Generated: 3,696 Tons Landfilled: 0 Tons Recycled: 760 Recycling Rate: 20.6% Tons Resource Recovery: 2,037 Tons Not Collected:

30 Hennepin Hennepin County Environmental Services Carl Michaud, Director 417 North 5 th Street Minneapolis, MN carl.michaud@co.hennepin.mn.us Hennepin County operates an integrated waste management system that incorporates waste reduction, recycling, and waste to energy. A: Increase recovery of mixed paper through education and promotion Address poor performance of multi housing residential recycling programs Increase collection of compostable waste Programs to recover non traditional recyclables such as mattresses, wood, gypsum wallboard and similar materials A: Curbside collection; early results on mattress recycling; organics collections from homes and schools. Mattress recycling implemented in mid 2008; expansion of organics composting; working with RAM on "Message in a Bottle" recycling program; green products initiative to substitute green office products when County staff orders office supplies Hennepin County County owned or operated Cooperation with other county/city Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 1,157, Year Growth Projection: 4.2% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $53,314, $10,345, State SCORE Grant: $2,692, State HHW Grant: $36, Other Grants: $312, Total Local Expenses: $7,303, Total Tons Generated: 1,616,569 Tons Landfilled: 479,955 Tons Recycled: 604,575 Recycling Rate: 37.4% Tons Resource Recovery: 502,850 Tons Not Collected: 0 28

31 Houston County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 19, Year Growth Projection: 6.0% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $872, Houston Houston County Environmental Services Richard Frank, Environmental Services Director State Caledonia, MN Houston County operates five supervised drop off sites for collection of refuse and recyclables for those residents who do not have the benefit of curbside collection by licensed haulers. These sites also collect problem materials such as tires, appliances, e waste etc from all sectors of the county. The county also operates a recycling center. All municipalities have curbside collection of refuse and recyclables. A: Hire a recycling coordinator to deal with businesses, schools and the general public. A: Dealing with problem materials in a cost effective manner; collection of pharmaceuticals during our household waste collections. $328, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $5, Total Local Expenses: $271, Total Tons Generated: 9,012 Tons Landfilled: 1,294 Tons Recycled: 2,511 Recycling Rate: 27.9% Tons Resource Recovery: 4,393 Tons Not Collected:

32 Hubbard Hubbard County Solid Waste Department Vern Massie, Solid Waste Administrator 101 Crocus Hill Street Park Rapids, MN Recycling and garbage are collected at the express lane and the dumpsters are serviced with a front load compactor truck. Hubbard County has a complete solid waste management system, operates a transfer station, and ships our solid waste to landfill in Gwinner, ND. We operate a recycling center under contract with the local development achievement center. We operate two demo landfills, one at each of our transfer station sites. Our system is free other than for commercial demolition waste (in the sense that we have solid waste assessment on every residence and commercial establishment in the county). The assessment pays for our operation and it is well received by the taxpayers. your county s recycling rate to 60%? A: Conduct training education for taxpayers and commercial businesses; visit businesses and assist them in setting up recycling operations and furnish them with the tools to do it; hire staff and sort through waste as it is brought to the facility to try and retrieve items from the waste. action you have taken or are planning to take: A: Our system has cleaned up our county and all but eliminated illegal dumping. Because it is pre paid, there is no advantage not to use the system. Garbage, demolition, diseased tree waste, yard waste, appliance, HHW, recycling, tires etc. are all accepted free from taxpayers. The two facilities are located as central as possible to population centers. Our south station near Park Rapids had such a traffic problem from privately owned vehicles coming to the site that we created an express lane which has relieved a lot of the traffic backup and tempers flaring up while waiting to back into the transfer stations to unload. It solved a problem we had and it is a great asset to our operation. Hubbard County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 18, Year Growth Projection: 9.4% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $2,387, $553, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $5, Total Local Expenses: $496, Total Tons Generated: 23,444 Tons Landfilled: 15,515 Tons Recycled: 7,919 Recycling Rate: 33.8% Tons Not Collected: 0 30

33 Isanti County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 38, Year Growth Projection: 38.2% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Isanti Isanti County Zoning Tim Anderson, Solid Waste Administrator th Avenue SW Cambridge, MN A: Develop better markets for recyclables. A: We have been successful in cleaning up some problem properties. We initiated a mandatory curbside recycling program 2007: $141, $121, State SCORE Grant: $103, State HHW Grant: $6, Other Grants: $3, Total Local Expenses: $8, Total Tons Generated: 35,198 Tons Landfilled: 21,939 Tons Recycled: 11,179 Recycling Rate: 31.8% Tons Not Collected: 1,259 31

34 Itasca Itasca County has not completed the survey Itasca County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection 32 Population: 44, Year Growth Projection: 8.3% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $468, State SCORE Grant: $103, State HHW Grant: $6, Total Local Expenses: $358, Total Tons Generated: 40,582 Tons Landfilled: 27,731 Tons Recycled: 11,689 Recycling Rate: 28.8% Tons Not Collected: 466

35 Jackson County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 11, Year Growth Projection: 1.3% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $80, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $27, Jackson Jackson County Planning and Environmental Services Ben Crowell, Environmental Services Officer th Street Jackson, MN ben.crowell@co.jackson.mn.us In Jackson County, MSW and Curbside Recycling in the cities is managed by the cities. Most have contracted with a private hauler but one city still has the residents choose their hauler. All MSW and demo debris is hauled to privately owned landfills located outside the county. A: I would provide garbage and recycling collection to rural residents. I would also look to ramp up educational services to businesses in the county to increase the amount of commercial recycling. I would also provide recycling at gas stations. A: I feel we have done a good job educating residents and students about the benefits of recycling. Total Tons Generated: 10,372 Tons Landfilled: 4,564 Tons Recycled: 3,990 Recycling Rate: 38.5% Tons Not Collected:

36 Kanabec Kanabec County Environmental Services Teresa Bearce, Solid Waste Administrator 18 North Vine Street, Suite Mora, MN Kanabec County is a part of the East Central Waste Facility which has 5 county participation. SCORE funds are used for oil paint disposal at HHW. Kanabec County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 16, Year Growth Projection: 20.4% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $67, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $ Total Local Expenses: $15, Total Tons Generated: 11,136 Tons Landfilled: 8,024 Tons Recycled: 2,750 Recycling Rate: 24.7% Tons Not Collected: 25 34

37 Kandiyohi County Paint Collection Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 41, Year Growth Projection: 2.5% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Kandiyohi Kandiyohi County has not completed the survey. 2007: No Response $922, State SCORE Grant: $97, State HHW Grant: $66, Total Local Expenses: $758, Total Tons Generated: 32,043 Tons Landfilled: 22,888 Tons Recycled: 7,262 Recycling Rate: 22.7% Tons Not Collected:

38 Kittson Kittson County Environmental Services Holly Anderson, Environmental Services Director th Street S, Suite Hallock, MN website not available handerson@co.kittson.mn.us Mar-Kit Landfill, jointly owned and operated by Kittson and Marshall Counties Kittson County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection No Response to the above questions Population: 4, Year Growth Projection: 6.7% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $167, $167, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $5, Total Local Expenses: $110, Total Tons Generated: 2,566 Tons Landfilled: 1,747 Tons Recycled: 611 Recycling Rate: 23.8% Tons Not Collected: 90 36

39 Koochiching County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 13, Year Growth Projection: 3.5% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $259, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $4, Total Local Expenses: $203, Koochiching Koochiching County Environmental Services Dale Olson, Environmental Services Director th Street International Falls, MN dale.olson@co.koochiching.mn.us Koochiching County manages 1 transfer station, 2 demolition landfills, 7 canister sites, and 14 recycling drop sites. Sentence to Serve (STS) assists the County by running its curbside recycling program in International Falls and Ranier. STS also picks up material at the dropsites. HHW collections are held twice per year at International Falls and once per year in various rural locations. Used oil, oil filters, yard waste, batteries, electronics and other materials are accepted at certain locations. Garbage is transported to the Mar Kit Landfill in Kittson your county s recycling rate to 60%? A: We would offer financial incentives to residents and businesses to recycle. This could be done by direct purchase of materials or through grants to businesses. action you have taken or are planning to take: A: Using Sentence to Serve in the recycling program has worked particularly well. STS does curbside collections, services all the drop sites and sorts nearly all the material for baling. It has been a huge savings to taxpayers. Koochiching County is looking at a program with ODC to disassemble electronics. The County is also in the process of doing a feasibility study for a waste to energy plasma gasification facility. Total Tons Generated: 11,732 Tons Landfilled: 7,962 Tons Recycled: 3,116 Recycling Rate: 26.6% Tons Not Collected:

40 Lac qui Parle Lac qui Parle Environmental Office Jennifer Breberg, Environmental Officer th Street Courthouse Madison, MN jennifer.bregerg@lqpco.com Lac qui Parle Household Hazardous Waste Collection Lac qui Parle County contracts with private individuals for recycling collection in all municipalities within the county. Municipal Waste is collected by a private individuals but delivered to a regional site in which a joint powers agreement is held. A: Develop County wide recycling pickup, either at each residence or at convenient locations located throughout the County, which would be available for drop off 24/7. A: We have recently established a twice per year County wide hazardous waste collection and e waste collection. Collections are in the spring and in the fall at two different location in the County. Plans are being developed to offer recycled material drop off sites which would be available 24/7 at 8 locations throughout our County. This is totally dependent upon fund availability. Lac qui Parle County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 7, Year Growth Projection: 12.5% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $88, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $2, Other Grants: $1, Total Local Expenses: $32, Total Tons Generated: 6,771 Tons Landfilled: 3,607 Tons Recycled: 1,317 Recycling Rate: 19.5% Tons Not Collected: 1,679 38

41 Lake County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 11, Year Growth Projection: 10.1% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $328, $232, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $10, Total Local Expenses: $169, Total Tons Generated: 8,123 Tons Landfilled: 5,313 Tons Recycled: 2,384 Recycling Rate: 29.3% Tons Not Collected: 315 Lake Lake County Solid Waste Department Curt Gadacz, Solid Waste Officer rd Avenue Mantorville, MN curt.gadacz@co.lake.mn.us Lake County owns and operates the last remaining demolition landfill along the North Shore of Lake Superior. Lake County's MSW goes through the WLSSD transfer station and on into Wisconsin. We operate the only Demo Landfill on the North Shore of Lake Superior. A: Replace our aging recycle center with a new facility for recycling, transfer station, materials recovery, HHW at one location. A: Our HHW program is very well accepted and probably realizes the most bank for the buck. I believe a well run MSW landfill located along the North Shore of Lake Superior should be considered as one of the tools for management of solid waste in Northeast Minnesota. 39

42 Lake of the Woods Lake of the Woods Public Works Bruce Hasbargen, Public Works Director th Ave SE Baudette, MN of the woods.mn.us bruce_h@co.lake of the woods.mn.us Lake of the Woods County operates two MSW Transfer Stations. A Recycling Center and Demolition Landfill are included at the main facility A: Provide curbside collection Provide additional public collection containers Add Material Recovery Facility Lake of the Woods County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 4, Year Growth Projection: 0.0% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $638, $190, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $138, Total Tons Generated: 3,794 Tons Landfilled: 2,776 Tons Recycled: 928 Recycling Rate: 24.5% Tons Not Collected: 17

43 Le Sueur County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 27, Year Growth Projection: 16.4% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $225, $229, State SCORE Grant: $65, State HHW Grant: $2, Total Local Expenses: $161, Le Sueur Le Sueur County Environmental Services Amy Beatty, Environmental Programs Specialist 88 South Park Avenue Le Center, MN sueur.mn.us sueur.mn.us Le Sueur County, as part of Tri County Solid Waste (Le Sueur, Nicollet, and Sibley Counties), works to provide recycling options and proper disposal of household hazardous waste (in agreement with Blue Earth and Scott Counties), tires, appliances, and electronics (county has provided annual spring collection of these last three items and for the past three years had provided two). Le Sueur County has approximately eight privately owned solid waste providers in the county that service various areas within the county. The county also offers county wide recycling on Saturdays in conjunction with the City of Le Center. The county has a privately owned transfer station and recycling center outside the City of Le Sueur. It also permits two concrete recyclers and five city yard composting facilities. A: Provide drop off sites in different areas of the county beside in the county seat; offer more collections to properly dispose household hazardous waste, tires, appliances, and electronics. A: We are always thanked by county residents for provided annual tire, appliance, and electronics collection and household hazardous waste mobile collections. Total Tons Generated: 28,835 Tons Landfilled: 9,084 Tons Recycled: 10,525 Recycling Rate: 36.5% Tons Resource Recovery: 7,535 Tons Not Collected: 1,007 41

44 Lincoln Lincoln County Environmental Department Robert Olsen, Environmental Administrator 211 N Wallace Avenue, PO Box Ivanhoe, MN rolsen@co.lincoln.mn.us Cities in Lincoln County contract with private MSW haulers for their garbage service. Lincoln County provides all recycling services, which includes curbside pickup, recycling shed for rural drop off, bi annual HHW collections, year round electronics collection, tire collection, education activities in schools and other community functions, and rural garbage drop off sites. A: Lobby our regional Landfill to install a MRF system. A: We have implemented a single stream recycling program, which did not increase personal recycling greatly, but increased participation by a factor of 3 times. We saw a 40% increase in recycling rates in the first year. Also Lincoln County began a commercial recycling program in 2008 that has increased our recycling tonnages approximately 14%. Our most unexpected success has been our program to reduce backyard burning of garbage. With funding from a MPCA grant we have implemented a program that provides garbage drop off services to rural residents. The program is only 6 months old and our expected participation has doubled. We originally hoped to collect about 8 tons per month when we started and we are now getting approximately 15 tons per month. We are planning to continue to provide the rural garbage program as an ongoing service to our rural residents. We also intend to provide resources and assistance to our local FFA organization and 4 H clubs to facilitate their community pride projects Lincoln County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 5, Year Growth Projection: 5.7% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Total County Waste Management Budget: 2007: No Response $139, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Other Grants: $10, Total Local Expenses: $77, Total Tons Generated: 3,302 Tons Landfilled: 1,570 Tons Recycled: 778 Recycling Rate: 23.6% Tons Not Collected: 881

45 Lyon County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 24, Year Growth Projection: 3.1% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $539, State SCORE Grant: $58, State HHW Grant: $101, Other Grants: $ Total Local Expenses: $378, Total Tons Generated: 34,007 Tons Landfilled: 16,065 Tons Recycled: 16,522 Recycling Rate: 48.6% Tons Not Collected: 812 Lyon Lyon County Environmental Department Paul Henricksen, Environmental Administrator 504 Fairgrounds Road Marshall, MN Lyon County operates a 7 county regional MSW landfill, a 10 county region HHW program/facility, contracts for a single sort residential curbside recycling program, operates a mobile HHW collection vehicle, provides and promotes solid waste education, operates a demolition landfill(two additional private demolition landfills in the county), conducts special wastes collection days and also provides drop sites for these materials, provides solid waste services for Yellow Medicine county. A: Provide cost effective recycling collection for governments and businesses. A: Lyon County provides environmentally sound and cost effective solid waste disposal for 7 counties in SW Minnesota and works with Yellow Medicine County to provide solid waste services and staff for their programs. Lyon County also provides HHW management for a 10 county region and is conducting a feasibility study to look at Landfill Gas to Energy and other resource recovery. Lyon County is working with the 12 county southwest solid waste commission to plan and promote a 50% recycling rate. Lyon County Household Hazardous Waste Drop Off 43

46 Mahnomen Mahnomen County Zoning & Sanitation Mark Diekman, Solid Waste Director PO Box Mahnomen, MN website not available Mahnomen County provides an integrated solid waste system in cooperation with the counties of Becker and Polk. A: Mandatory recycling by county ordinance. A: Mahnomen County, in cooperation with Becker County, has two (2) HHW collections per year. At these events the county collects HHW, bulbs, & electronic waste. Mahnomen County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 5, Year Growth Projection: 0.5% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $67, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $2, Total Local Expenses: $12, Total Tons Generated: 2,344 Tons Landfilled: 378 Tons Recycled: 349 Recycling Rate: 14.9% Tons Resource Recovery: 1,272 Tons Not Collected:

47 Marshall County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 9, Year Growth Projection: 0.3% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $138, $95, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $5, Total Local Expenses: $37, Total Tons Generated: 6,366 Tons Landfilled: 4,932 Tons Recycled: 896 Recycling Rate: 14.1% Tons Not Collected: 315 Marshall Marshall County Solid Waste Don Matz, Solid Waste Administrator 208 E Colvin Avenue, Suite # Warren, MN don.matz@co.marshall.mn.us Mar-Kit Landfill, jointly owned and operated by Kittson and Marshall Counties Waste generated in Marshall County is collected and hauled by private operators. your county s recycling rate to 60%? A: Because of the rural nature of Marshall County, reaching a 60% recycling rate, in my opinion, is not attainable. To reach a 35% recycling rate I would need to provide many more drop off sites, better markets for expanded materials collection, more education and lots of money. A: Our ten county HHW management program has been very efficient and well run, providing a good service for residents and small business. Also, we feel very good about the development and management of our MMSW Landfill (Mar Kit). 45

48 Martin Martin County Solid Waste Billeye Rabbe, Solid Waste Coordinator 201 Lake Avenue, Office Fairmont, MN All of the garbage from Martin and Faribault Counties goes to the Prairieland Compost Facility, which is owned by both counties. Martin County provides coordination of the county recycling program, household hazardous waste program, very small quantity generator program and is under the joint powers agreement to operate the Prairieland Compost Facility, a municipal solid waste composting facility. A: Provide more education A: We have an excellent recycling rate and the drop sites for rural recyclables have been very well received and utilized. Martin County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 20, Year Growth Projection: 4.5% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $245, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $193, Total Tons Generated: 33,407 Tons Landfilled: 603 Tons Recycled: 20,120 Recycling Rate: 60.2% Tons MSW Compost: 9,876 Tons Not Collected: 2,375 46

49 McLeod County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 37, Year Growth Projection: 9.8% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Total County Waste Management Budget: 2007: No Response $2,052, State SCORE Grant: $86, State HHW Grant: $16, Total Local Expenses: $1,950, Total Tons Generated: 38,722 Tons Landfilled: 20,253 Tons Recycled: 15,497 Recycling Rate: 40.0% Tons Not Collected: 2,099 McLeod McLeod County Solid Waste Ed Homan, Solid Waste Director th Avenue SE Hutchinson, MN ehoman@co.mcleod.mn.us McLeod County Solid Waste Building McLeod County operates a Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) and Material Recovery Facility (MRF). All curbside recyclables are delivered by Waste Management to the MRF and sorted/processed by West Central Industry (adult handicap staff). We also have four drop sites that are located geographically for all residents to access to properly dispose of yard waste and e waste/appliances. Each collection site is maintained and operated by city staff at their perspective locations for the convenience of all county residents. In 2007, paint was 64% of the HHW collected. A: Make recycling mandatory and ban recyclables from the garbage. A: Participation in the HHW program continues to see growth each year. Expanding commercial recycling to include commodities not considered marketable in the recycling industry. 47

50 Meeker Meeker County Administration Paul Virnig, County Administrator 325 Sibley Avenue North Litchfield, MN Meeker County Courthouse A: Help pay for curbside and commercial recycling Meeker County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 23, Year Growth Projection: 10.3% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $162, $72, State SCORE Grant: $54, State HHW Grant: $3, Total Local Expenses: $13, Total Tons Generated: 15,506 Tons Landfilled: 9,811 Tons Recycled: 4,267 Recycling Rate: 27.5% Tons Not Collected:

51 Mille Lacs County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 26, Year Growth Projection: 31.6% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Mille Lacs Mille Lacs Zoning & Environmental Services Michele McPherson, Zoning & Environmental Services Administrator nd Street SE Milaca, MN lacs.mn.us michele.mcpherson@co.mille lacs.mn.us Mille Lacs County has an open market system for trash collection. Recycling is provided via a private business and is subsidized by SCORE and solid waste assessment funds. A: In rural Minnesota, 60% recycling is not a realistic goal given resident attitudes toward government regulation. A: No Response 2007: No Response $164, State SCORE Grant: $60, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $104, Total Tons Generated: 17,007 Tons Landfilled: 13,129 Tons Recycled: 1,749 Recycling Rate: 10.3% Tons Not Collected: 1,469 49

52 Morrison Morrison County Amy Kowalzek, Environmental & Administrative Sevices Supervisor 213 SE 1 st Avenue Little Falls, MN amyk@co.morrison.mn.us Morrison County owns a full service solid waste management facility that includes a sanitary landfill, demolition landfill, household hazardous waste facility, recycling, used oil, tires, appliances, fluorescent light bulbs, electronics and brush. The County also operates three yard waste compost facilities. A: We would do more work with the commercial/industrial sector to capture more recyclable material. A: Our city and township grant program has been very successful. All sixteen incorporated cities within Morrison County have mandatory curbside refuse and recycling collection. Twentyfour townships have refuse and recycling drop sites. All sixteen cities and thirty townships hold clean up days at least every other year. We are planning to initiate an agricultural plastic recycling program in Morrison County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 32, Year Growth Projection: 13.2% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $2,204, $548, State SCORE Grant: $76, State HHW Grant: $7, Total Local Expenses: $464, Total Tons Generated: 27,100 Tons Landfilled: 13,213 Tons Recycled: 13,235 Recycling Rate: 48.8% Tons Not Collected:

53 Mower County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Mower Mower County Environmental Services Jeffery Weaver, Solid Waste Officer/Recycling Coordinator 1105 ½ 8 th Avenue NE Austin, MN jeffw@co.mower.mn.us A: Work with the business sector on recycling more of their material. Currently we are providing recycling for businesses in Austin on a voluntary basis; we have approximately 15% participation. Population: 38, Year Growth Projection: 2.2% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Total County Waste Management Budget: 2007: $535, $533, State SCORE Grant: $90, State HHW Grant: $11, Total Local Expenses: $431, Total Tons Generated: 49,427 Tons Landfilled: 28,234 Tons Recycled: 18,993 Recycling Rate: 38.4% Tons Not Collected: 1,238 51

54 Murray Murray County Environmental Services Jon Bloemendaal, Agriculture and Solid Waste Administrator th Street, PO Box Slayton, MN countymn.com A: That would be hard to do in Murray County, because we don't have a lot of businesses. A: Our recycling program Murray County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection 52 Population: 8, Year Growth Projection: 1.8% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $438, $92, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $40, Total Tons Generated: 7,419 Tons Landfilled: 3,991 Tons Recycled: 2,381 Recycling Rate: 32.1% Tons Not Collected: 835

55 Nicollet County Yard Waste Compost Facility Recycling Center Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Electronics Collection Education Services Population: 32, Year Growth Projection: 9.1% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Total County Waste Management Budget: 2007: No Response $352, State SCORE Grant: $74, State HHW Grant: $5, Total Local Expenses: $273, Nicollet Nicollet County Environmental Services Pamela Rivers, Solid Waste Enforcement Coordinator 501 S Minnesota Avenue St. Peter, MN privers@co.nicollet.mn.us In Nicollet County the private sector takes care of recycling and solid waste and individual cities have own compost sites for lawn products. HHW is joint venture of 3 other counties and takes care of residential, commercial and public entity waste A: Do PSAs, do more education in the schools, coordinate with high school or college students or other volunteer organizations in a county wide door to door campaign where a variety of educational door hangers are developed and distributed, more education on burn barrels A: Tire, Appliance & Electronic County Wide Collections have gone over very well the last 10 years (electronics were added in 2003). We went to 2 collections per year in. Continue an aggressive burn barrel education program & we added "Message in a Bottle" Program end of 2008 Total Tons Generated: 29,536 Tons Landfilled: 5,437 Tons Recycled: 12,639 Recycling Rate: 42.8% Tons Resource Recovery: 9,604 Tons Not Collected: 1,049 53

56 Nobles Nobles County Public Works Wayne Smith, Environmental Director 960 Diagonal Road, PO Box Worthington, MN Nobles County Solid Waste Management puts an emphasis on waste reduction, both in amount and toxicity. The County's existing management system is an integrated solid waste management system that includes: MSW land filling, demolition land filling, business, residential, and rural recycling programs, HHW management program, HHW mobile unit, HHW facility, problem material management program including appliances, tires, used oil and filters, fluorescent lighting bulbs and fixtures, electronics, batteries, yard waste management, and extensive public education. Nobles County will continue to examine current and future waste trends. A: Use radio more for education and promotion. A: Our Public Private Partnership with Schaap Sanitation has been very successful and the Nobles County HHW Product exchange has helped many people. We will continue to consider landfill abatement alternatives and burn barrel elimination. Nobles County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 20, Year Growth Projection: 0.0% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $381, $423, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Other Grants: $1, Total Local Expenses: $369, Total Tons Generated: 17,524 Tons Landfilled: 8,493 Tons Recycled: 7,469 Recycling Rate: 42.6% Tons Not Collected: 1,049

57 Norman County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 6, Year Growth Projection: 4.8% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Norman Norman County Environmental Services Position is currently open 816 East Main Street Ada, MN Norman County is a part of a five county group, using Polk County's sanitary landfill and WTE incinerator. We have a privately owned and operated Demolition landfill which we subsidize A: Mandate county wide collection of garbage (including recycling). 2007: $330, $83, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $3, Total Local Expenses: $28, Total Tons Generated: 4,373 Tons Landfilled: 477 Tons Recycled: 916 Recycling Rate: 20.9% Tons Resource Recovery: 2,820 Tons Not Collected: 20 55

58 Olmsted Olmsted County John Helmers 2122 Campus Drive. SE Rochester, MN A: Provide county wide curbside collection free to generator. Olmsted County County owned or operated Cooperation with other county/city Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 139, Year Growth Projection: 17.3% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $1,658, State SCORE Grant: $321, State HHW Grant: $141, Total Local Expenses: $1,195, Total Tons Generated: 146,925 Tons Landfilled: 34,301 Tons Recycled: 50,152 Recycling Rate: 34.1% Tons Resource Recovery: 58,738 Tons Not Collected:

59 Otter Tail County County owned or operated Cooperation with other county/city Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 58, Year Growth Projection: 6.9% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $5,326, $1,570, State SCORE Grant: $137, State HHW Grant: $42, Total Local Expenses: $1,390, Total Tons Generated: 55,777 Tons Landfilled: 17,063 Tons Recycled: 21,335 Recycling Rate: 38.3% Tons Resource Recovery: 14,957 Tons Not Collected: 949 Otter Tail Otter Tail County Solid Waste Michael Hanan, Waste Management Director 1115 North Tower Road Fergus Falls, MN tail.mn.us tail.mn.us Otter Tail County Fergus Falls Solid Waste Transfer Station Otter Tail County has a comprehensive solid waste management program. We emphasize recycling and waste reduction while we also provide a comprehensive countywide system of transfer stations and we work closely with local private haulers to assure that our residents have; the background educational information, access to recycling services and access to waste disposal services including resource recovery incineration. action you have taken or are planning to take: A: Because our county implemented a comprehensive countywide plan to provide access to both recycling collection through countywide drop off sites, as well as to provide countywide access to waste disposal services through transfer stations, we have been able to reduce illegal on site disposal by burning and burying. Our biggest issue still seems to be with seasonal residents. We are in the process of going back to something that we tried several years ago which did not turn out to be very successful. We are again trying to partner with our schools to educate administrators and students regarding waste reduction and waste management. We are hoping that this time because of the worldwide emphasis on "Going Green" that we will have better success than we have in the past. While schools, state offices, and other subdivisions of the State of Minnesota have been mandated for years to reduce and recycle these mandates have not been at all successful primarily due to the fact that the money to implement programs has not been available. 57

60 Pennington Pennington County has not completed the survey. Pennington County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 13, Year Growth Projection: 5.0% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $40, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $11, Total Tons Generated: 14,383 Tons Landfilled: 10,030 Tons Recycled: 2,370 Recycling Rate: 16.5% Tons Not Collected: 1,637 58

61 Pine County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Pine Pine County Solid Waste Robby Fischer, Environmental Tech Hwy 23 N Sandstone, MN Pine County is a member of East Central Solid Waste Commission. Working on a HHW program. Population: 28, Year Growth Projection: 21.3% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $145, State SCORE Grant: $66, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $79, Total Tons Generated: 28,207 Tons Landfilled: 19,918 Tons Recycled: 5,924 Recycling Rate: 21.0% Tons Not Collected: 1,679 59

62 Pipestone Pipestone County Conservation and Zoning Kyle Krier, Administrator nd Ave SW, Suite Pipestone, MN county.com kyle.krier@mn.nacdnet.net Pipestone County utilizes the Lyon County Regional Landfill for solid waste disposal and the Tri County recycling facility in Slayton for processing of recyclable material. The county also utilizes a regional HHW program with Lyon County. Pipestone County owns and operates a recycling facility for electronic, appliance, and other materials. A: Offer a co mingled recycling program that would include commercial business collection. A: We offer free electronic, appliance, and fluorescent bulb collection and free collection of material. Pipestone County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 9, Year Growth Projection: 7.0% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $177, $234, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $182, Total Tons Generated: 9,725 Tons Landfilled: 4,186 Tons Recycled: 4,109 Recycling Rate: 42.3% Tons Not Collected: 1,196 60

63 Polk County County owned or operated Cooperation with other county/city Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 31, Year Growth Projection: 3.9% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $1,492, $340, State SCORE Grant: $72, State HHW Grant: $7, Total Local Expenses: $260, Total Tons Generated: 30,033 Tons Landfilled: 7,618 Tons Recycled: 10,227 Recycling Rate: 34.1% Tons Resource Recovery: 11,473 Tons Not Collected: 185 Polk Polk County Environmental Services/Solid Waste Jon Steiner, Environmental Services Administrator 320 Ingersol Avenue, PO Box Crookston, MN Polk County owns and operates its entire Integrated Waste Management System (Recycling Sites, HHW Sites, Transfer Station, Waste to Energy Facility, Material Recovery Facility, MSW/Demolition/Ash Landfill, etc.). Any material that can be recycled or processed at the WTE facility is accepted from County residents at $0.00. Polk County pays for the management of these items from a service fee. This encourages materials to be received at a County Solid Waste facility where they can be managed properly, reducing illegal disposal. At the WTE facility, recyclable materials still in the waste stream are removed and recycled, energy (in the form of steam) is captured from the combustion of waste and sold to one of three local industries to process food products rather than fossil fuels. Any steam not sold to these businesses powers a turbine generator to produce electricity which is sold to the power grid. Ash byproduct from waste incineration is being used in the construction of new roads. All of these County projects/programs are geared toward landfill abatement. your county s recycling rate to 60%? A: Provide more recycling containers, create a monetary incentive to private waste haulers to provide increased level of service, expand opportunity to recycle for business. action you have taken or are planning to take: A: We contract with the Occupational Development Center to staff our recycling facilities. ODC staff are comprised of mentally, behaviorally or emotionally challenged individuals. Under contract, we offer a flat recycling contract fee + revenue sharing from the sale of recycled material. This caps the County's costs, we receive relief with our portion of revenues, and ODC has their costs covered with the opportunity to make some extra money on the contract with their portion of the revenues. Also creates and incentive for ODC to find better / new markets and promote the recycling program. Exploring the option of a single or dual stream recycling system to eliminate the amount of fuel consumed and time spent transporting small recyclable material volumes from recyclable collection drop off sites to recycling facilities for processing and consolidation. 61

64 Pope/Douglas Pope/Douglas Solid Waste Management Peter Olmscheid, Executive Director 2115 S Jefferson Street Alexandria, MN pdswpao@rea alp.com Pope/Douglas Solid Waste Management Facility Pope/Douglas operates a Waste to Energy Facility and Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Alexandria. Recyclables are managed in the Recycling Center and the MRF. HHW is collected year round at our facility. Outreach is provided to the community to educate residents on recycling and proper waste management. your county s recycling rate to 60%? A: If funding was not an issue, mandatory recycling with the ability to enforce for both businesses and residents would be a great way to raise recycling rates. It would also be great to begin a robust commercial recycling program. action you have taken or are planning to take: A: Our Materials Recovery Facility, added to the facility in 2003 has been an important part of our waste management system. It has increased Pope/Douglas recycling rates by pulling many recyclables from our waste stream; materials that would otherwise not have been recycled. PDSWM is in the process of expanding the Wasteto Energy Facility to keep with the demand of our growing communities. In addition to this, PDSWM looks forward to being able to increase recycling rates through starting event recycling and offering increased recycling venues for area businesses 62 Pope and Douglas Counties County owned or operated Cooperation with other county/city Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population (Pope): 11,110 (Douglas): 35, Year Growth Projection (Pope): 9.5% (Douglas): 15.0% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita (Pope): $ (Douglas): $ : No Response $387, State SCORE Grant: $134, State HHW Grant: $15, Total Local Expenses: $237, Total Tons Generated: 38,795 Tons Landfilled: 2,481 Tons Recycled: 9,318 Recycling Rate: 24.0% Tons Resource Recovery: 25,441 Tons Not Collected: 462

65 Ramsey County County owned or operated Cooperation with other county/city Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 517, Year Growth Projection: 0.4% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Ramsey St. Paul-Ramsey County Department of Public Health Zack Hansen, Environmental Health Director 2785 White Bear Avenue, Suite Maplewood, MN Ramsey County uses a public health model of prevention in planning and implementing waste management programs. Programs are designed to reduce risks associated with waste management to protect public health and the environment. The County uses a wide variety of tools to achieve the goals outlined in its Solid Waste Master Plan. Because waste and its management is complex, and because of the size and diversity of Ramsey County, there are many different programs. A sampling of services includes planning and policy development, regulation of solid and hazardous waste activities, direct services, contracted services, grants and funding, consultation and technical assistance, innovative communications, and more. 2007: $19,861, $5,226, State SCORE Grant: $1,204, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Other Grants: $178, Total Local Expenses: $3,843, Total Tons Generated: 711,160 Tons Landfilled: 210,623 Tons Recycled: 311,872 Recycling Rate: 43.9% Tons Resource Recovery: 175,625 Tons Not Collected: 0 63

66 Red Lake Red Lake County Environmental Services Kurt Casavan, Red Lake County Environmental Officer PO Box Red Lake Falls, MN website not available Municipal Garbage is picked up and handled by private haulers. It is hauled to MarKit Landfill in Hallock, MN. We currently are part of KaMaR Recycling, in Karlstad, MN. KaMaR Recycling is owned and operated by the following counties: Kittson, Marshall, Red Lake, & Roseau. We have recycling sites in the four cities in Red Lake County. We provide used oil containers as well as containers for oil filters. There is a container for magazine drop off, as well as glass, aluminum/metal, newspaper, phone books, and plastic. A: Work with the businesses more. A: Recycling program - KaMaR Recycling. Red Lake County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 4, Year Growth Projection: 3.4% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $73, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $5, Total Local Expenses: $16, Total Tons Generated: 2,287 Tons Landfilled: 1,543 Tons Recycled: 639 Recycling Rate: 27.9% Tons Not Collected: 8 64

67 Redwood County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 15, Year Growth Projection: 3.4% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $591, $591, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $34, Other Grants: $3, Total Local Expenses: $501, Total Tons Generated: 32,755 Tons Landfilled: 8,537 Tons Recycled: 22,329 Recycling Rate: 68.2% Tons Not Collected: 1,889 Redwood Redwood County Environmental Services Jon Mitchell, Environmental Services Director PO Box Redwood Falls, MN Redwood County Recycling Center Redwood County has a very aggressive recycling and HHW program, and dedicates a large amount of time to public education on numerous environmental issues. Because of these efforts, residents feel good about the programs that are offered. With curbside recycling in every town and 10 (soon to be 15) rural drop sites, the residents have a convenient way to recycle, no matter where they live in the county. A: Redwood County has already reached over 60%, but cuts in funding could have a negative effect in this county as well as all others. With the current state of the economy, the cost to run a county recycling program will continue to escalate. This, coupled with reduced value for materials will severely limit our ability to continue or expand programs. A: Public education and special events have been successful. We would like to try to figure out how to do more with less. Utilize more local workers, talents and departments within the county and the neighboring counties. Possibly work on shared facilities or services. 65

68 Renville Renville County Public Works Marlin Larson, Solid Waste Officer 105 S 5 th Street Olivia, MN marlin_l@co.renville.mn.us Renville County owns and operates a MSW and demo landfill. Curbside recycling pickup and drop off sites in all communities are provided by a county hired private contractor. The county also owns a less than 90 day HHW facility. A: Education, better accounting of commercial recycling, and offer incentives to individuals and businesses. Renville County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 16, Year Growth Projection: 0.5% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $284, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $2, Other Grants: $2, Total Local Expenses: $227, Total Tons Generated: 14,504 Tons Landfilled: 8,224 Tons Recycled: 3,832 Recycling Rate: 26.4% Tons Not Collected: 2,183 66

69 Rice County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Rice Rice County Environmental Services Julie Runkel, Director 3800 East 145 th Street Dundas, MN A: Change to single stream recycling collection. Population: 63, Year Growth Projection: 19.9% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $2,544, $1,118, State SCORE Grant: $144, State HHW Grant: $33, Total Local Expenses: $939, Total Tons Generated: 103,049 Tons Landfilled: 46,590 Tons Recycled: 51,417 Recycling Rate: 49.9% Tons Resource Recovery: 927 Tons Not Collected: 2,560 67

70 Rock Rock County Land Management Office Doug Bos 311 West Gabrielson Road , ext. 3 Luverne, MN doublas.bos@mn.nacdnet.net Rock County is a partner in the Lyon County Regional Landfill. We operate a Solid Waste Transfer Station located just east of Luverne, where MSW is transferred to the Lyon County Regional Landfill. Rock County operates a demolition landfill adjacent to the Transfer Station. Through a contract with our Solid Waste hauler, MSW is hauled from our County owned and operated transfer station, and demolition materials are backhauled from the Lyon County facility to the Rock County demolition landfill. The contract hauler, Ketterling Services, of Luverne, is also the contract holder for the collection and processing of recyclables for Rock County. All recyclables are delivered and processed through Ketterling Services. Recycling services in most urban areas are provided at the curbside, through organized pickup. The County operates several recycling drop off sheds, located in various parts of the County, where recyclables are picked up by Ketterling Services. your county s recycling rate to 60%? A: Contact all non residential sources of waste and help improve recycling rates. Increase the education to both the residential and non residential sector. Become more educated in the recyclables markets so that marketing assistance may be provided to our current recycling contract holder. Replace our current recycling drop off sheds with segregated recyclable roll off boxes. Annually send out solid waste guides to all residents and businesses on the proper disposal of waste products. action you have taken or are planning to take: A: The agreement between Rock County and Lyon County involving the respective landfills for each site. 2. Our annual HHW collection event became even more successful in 2008 with the coordination of an e waste collection event during the same day/hours (that first event was extremely busy, but successful) Our HHW amounts were substantially higher at this event, versus historic events. 3. We conducted a second e waste event in October of It appears that we managed to obtain a lot of the stockpiled e waste at the spring event, as many people who came in October did not have near the number of items per vehicle, as compared with the May event. I have contemplated sending out a direct mailing to all rural residents, with a listing of licensed solid waste haulers, to help facilitate on the farm pickup of solid waste, and help educate rural residents they have an alternative to on site disposal. I would also include a recycling guide with a map showing the locations of the recycling sheds. Rock County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 9, Year Growth Projection: 0.4% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $120, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Other Grants: $1, Total Local Expenses: $67, Total Tons Generated: 9,622 Tons Landfilled: 3,931 Tons Recycled: 4,983 Recycling Rate: 51.8% Tons Not Collected:

71 Roseau County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 16, Year Growth Projection: 18.9% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $1,108, $141, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $6, Total Local Expenses: $83, Total Tons Generated: 20,168 Tons Landfilled: 9,949 Tons Recycled: 9,166 Recycling Rate: 45.4% Tons Not Collected: 684 Roseau Roseau County Environmental Department Jeff Pelowski, Roseau County Environmental Officer th Avenue SW, Room Roseau, MN pelowski@co.roseau.mn.us Roseau County Solid Waste Transfer Station Roseau County owns & operates a Demolition LF and SW Transfer Station. The County contracts with the Mar Kit SLF for waste disposal/processing. We participate in the 10 County NWMNHHW Program and the 4 County KaMaR Recycling Program. A: Institute mandatory waste collection and recycling (countywide); include a "curbside" recycling program as a part of the mandatory collection program. A: I think the general public really appreciates our HHW program. We are working on a revision of our Solid Waste Management Ordinance in 2009/

72 Scott Scott County Environmental Health Steve Steuber, Environmentalist II th Avenue W Shakopee, MN ssteuber@co.scott.mn.us Scott County Household Hazardous Waste Facility Scott County HHW Facility Re-use Room In Scott County, with the exception of HHW, the management of solid waste is taken care of by the private sector. A: Amend the County s solid waste ordinance to mandate recycling be provided to apartments, townhome associations and requiring haulers to provide more recycling opportunities to businesses. Increase educational efforts directed to apartment managers and tenants. Provide more support including funding to schools to establish active recycling and food waste programs. A: We instigated a collaborative effort with the MPCA, Will Steger Foundation, Dakota County and local science teachers to develop a global warming video suitable for classroom use. We developed classroom programs for Senior and Junior High Schools through CLIMB Theatre to focus on climate change, recycling and waste and energy reduction. Scott County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 123, Year Growth Projection: 57.9% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $538, State SCORE Grant: $275, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $263, Total Tons Generated: 149,108 Tons Landfilled: 65,672 Tons Recycled: 69,078 Recycling Rate: 46.3% Tons Resource Recovery: 12,249 Tons Not Collected: 0 70

73 Sherburne County County owned or operated Cooperation with other county/city Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 86, Year Growth Projection: 47.5% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Total County Waste Management Budget: 2007: $1,673, $301, State SCORE Grant: $195, State HHW Grant: $6, Total Local Expenses: $99, Total Tons Generated: 80,723 Tons Landfilled: 24,406 Tons Recycled: 33,386 Recycling Rate: 14.1% Tons Resource Recovery: 20,335 Tons Not Collected: 420 Sherburne Sherburne County Planning and Zoning Dave Lucas, Solid Waste Administrator Business Center Drive Elk River, MN Methane to Energy Facility located at the Elk River Landfill: a cooperative effort between Sherburne County, Waste Management, and Elk River Municipal Utilities The Sherburne County Solid Waste Department oversees the management of all household, industrial, and commercial wastes (garbage) generated within and transported through the county. This includes the licensing of and regulation of all solid waste facilities located in the county, and the development and administration of the county's solid waste management plan and ordinances. Sherburne County's current solid waste system relies on maximizing landfill abatement (reducing our dependence on landfills) through the processing of the county's waste into a refuse derived fuel (RDF). action you have taken or are planning to take: A: Our Household Hazardous Waste Collection events have been very successful in Sherburne County. Each year more and more residents participate. We also have a very successful battery recycling program. There are over 20 drop off sites in the county and the batteries are collected on a bi weekly basis (weekly basis at a few locations). The "Environmental Educator" is a county newsletter that focuses on waste abatement activities, this has remained a popular feature to county residents. The newsletter is produced 4 times per year. City/Township clean up events are also seeing record numbers of participants in recent years. Residents are able to dispose of items that are prohibited from landfills at a subsidized rate. An ordinance amendment several years ago required haulers to provide curbside recycling to all residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Landfill Abatement Legacy Grants for public entities who incorporate "green" building materials in their construction projects. Grants have been awarded to build and remodel township halls and other public buildings that incorporate at least 25% recycled material during the construction project. Awards to each municipality are awarded on a per capita basis. 71

74 Sibley Sibley County has not completed the survey. Sibley County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection 72 Population: 15, Year Growth Projection: 3.0% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $226, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $2, Total Local Expenses: $40, Total Tons Generated: 12,785 Tons Landfilled: 5,749 Tons Recycled: 5,823 Recycling Rate: 45.5% Tons Resource Recovery: 480 Tons Not Collected: 434

75 St. Louis County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 196, Year Growth Projection: 2.9% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Total County Waste Management Budget: 2007: $6,761, $1,327, State SCORE Grant: $219, State HHW Grant: $20, Other Grants: $4, Total Local Expenses: $1,082, Total Tons Generated: 116,051 Tons Landfilled: 54,006 Tons Recycled: 60,860 Recycling Rate: 52.4% Tons Not Collected: 332 St. Louis (partial, see also WLSSD) St. Louis County Environmental Services Ted Troolin, Director 307 First Street S, Suite Virginia, MN louis.mn.us St. Louis County Regional Landfill, Household Hazardous Waste Facility, and Special Wastes Area St. Louis County manages an integrated waste management system including 5 transfer stations, 20 canister sites, and MSW landfill, 2 demolition landfills and 48 recycling drop off locations. Other programs provided include scrap metal, brush, mattress recycling, demolition material processing, appliance recycling, and MQG programs. A: Expand commercial, institutional, and industrial recycling programs, develop systems to move recyclables within the County more economically, and explore methods for mechanically separating recyclables from mixed waste. A: St. Louis County has aggressively developed recycling and special waste management systems, and accepts many special wastes at no charge in order to promote proper management. We completed a pilot demolition processing study and are moving forward with that program. We are also evaluating future waste processing feasibility for our area. 73

76 Stearns Stearns County Environmental Services Donald Adams, Director 705 Courthouse Square, Room St. Cloud, MN Stearns County Environmental Services Stearns County solid waste system is a publicly provided service utilizing contracted private haulers. Some portion of the solid waste is disposed of at an environmentally preferred processing facility at the direction of the County and remaining waste goes to approved facilities at the discretion of the hauler. A: Add 1 FTE to work on source reduction and recycling with businesses, institutions and public entities. A: Stearns County s public solid waste service provided through contracts with private haulers has worked extremely well. Stearns County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 145, Year Growth Projection: 15.9% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $559, State SCORE Grant: $335, State HHW Grant: $6, Total Local Expenses: $217, Total Tons Generated: 178,349 Tons Landfilled: 38,238 Tons Recycled: 97,436 Recycling Rate: 54.6% Tons Resource Recovery: 37,426 Tons Not Collected: 1,214

77 Steele County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 36, Year Growth Projection: 13.4% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $2,348, Steele Steele County Environmental Services Scott Golberg, Environmental Services Director 630 Florence Avenue Owatonna, MN Steele County owns and operates an MSW and Demolition Landfill. The recycling program is a contract with a private vendor to provide residential recycling services county wide. Special wastes management includes household hazardous waste, electronics, tires, appliances, used oil, and oil filters. Public education on waste issues is also provided. A: Work on small to medium size businesses waste recycling. A: Steele County's residential recycling program has had an ongoing high participation rate as a voluntary program. Each year the county provides elementary age school children in the County a guided tour of local solid waste facilities (i.e. yard waste compost site, recycling center, and the county landfill). $427, State SCORE Grant: $83, State HHW Grant: $5, Total Local Expenses: $337, Total Tons Generated: 78,402 Tons Landfilled: 31,498 Tons Recycled: 44,977 Recycling Rate: 57.4% Tons Not Collected: 1,007 75

78 Stevens Stevens County Environmental Services Bill Kleindl, Environmental Services Coordinator PO Box Morris, MN Stevens County Transfer Station Stevens County owns a solid waste transfer station and demolition debris landfill. The county contracts with a one private operator to operate the transfer station, demolition landfill and to provide curbside recycling in all cities and monthly drop off recycling locations for rural residents. 50% of the County's garbage is hauled to the Kandiyohi County Landfill and 50% is disposed of at the Pope/Douglas WTE Facility. Stevens County is a member of the Otter Tail County HHW Program and conducts 4 mobile collections annually. A: Provide weekly or bi monthly curbside pickup and permanent rural drop off locations. A: The county continues to provide four mobile collection events annually that averages 250 participants. Stevens County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 9, Year Growth Projection: 7.4% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $100, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $48, Total Tons Generated: 7,841 Tons Landfilled: 5,434 Tons Recycled: 1,553 Recycling Rate: 19.8% Tons Resource Recovery: 563 Tons Not Collected:

79 Swift County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Swift Swift County has not completed the survey. Population: 11, Year Growth Projection: 6.6% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $293, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $2, Total Local Expenses: $238, Total Tons Generated: 8,982 Tons Landfilled: 4,417 Tons Recycled: 3,205 Recycling Rate: 35.7% Tons Not Collected: 1,074 77

80 Todd Todd County Solid Waste Michael Hanan, Waste Management Director 1115 North Tower Road Fergus Falls, MN tail.mn.us The transfer station/material recovery facility is the hub of Solid Waste Management in Todd County. The Station is geographically located in the center of the County, 95% of waste collected in Todd County is brought here. A: I would pay for drop locations in every city and township. The key element would be locations that had a staff person there to answer questions and provide education. Businesses I would pay for their pickup of recycling and discount their waste bill according, if money was no option. A: We are open to the public 44 hours per week. We take everything and if can't take it we find out where you can take it. Not sexy I know, but we are proud of our friendly availability. We are throwing around the idea of a recovered materials market, once a month, we just haven't figure out how to implement it. We are concerned about an Oklahoma type land rush. Todd County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 24, Year Growth Projection: 5.6% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Total County Waste Management Budget: 2007: $1,300, $297, State SCORE Grant: $27, State HHW Grant: $5, Total Local Expenses: $264, Total Tons Generated: 30,377 Tons Landfilled: 4,370 Tons Recycled: 17,704 Recycling Rate: 58.3% Tons Resource Recovery: 6,885 Tons Not Collected:

81 Traverse County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 3, Year Growth Projection: 11.3% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $1, Traverse Traverse County Solid Waste Gary Tracy, Solid Waste Administrator PO Box Wheaton, MN website not available A: Have curbside recycling county wide. A: Our first E waste collection was held and resulted in a very good turn out. We also have curbside collection for our senior citizens. We received a grant to buy a recycling trailer so we could have curbside recycling for senior citizens in Wheaton. 2007: No Response $102, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $50, Total Tons Generated: 2,547 Tons Landfilled: 1,311 Tons Recycled: 636 Recycling Rate: 25.0% Tons Not Collected:

82 Wabasha Wabasha County Solid Waste/Recycling Position is currently open 821 Hiawatha Drive W ext. 119 Wabasha, MN Wabasha County SW goes to two waste to energy facilities: La Crosse, WI & Red Wing. We are a part of the Olmsted County HHW program and conduct 8 mobile collections per year. Licensed haulers provide SW and recycling curbside. The County has 8 recycling drop off sites throughout the County. The County uses vendors to conduct pay as you throw collections for F. bulbs, balasts, batteries, tires, demo, textiles, appliances and e waste. In 2007 we had a SCORE recycling rate of 68.1% which includes some documented business recycling. A: It is currently 68.1%. But, I would like to add pharmaceuticals and agricultural plastics. A: In 2008 we conducted 11 city collections for tires, furniture, scrap metal and appliances. The appliances included 35 tons of e waste. Citizens pay to through these items. I would like to plan and execute a pharmaceutical collection in my County with disposal at the HHW facility in La Crosse, WI. Wabasha County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 22, Year Growth Projection: 7.4% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $109, $109, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $57, Total Tons Generated: 26,742 Tons Landfilled: 2,188 Tons Recycled: 16,084 Recycling Rate: 60.1% Tons Resource Recovery: 9,481 Tons Not Collected:

83 Wadena County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 13, Year Growth Projection: 8.3% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ Wadena Wadena County Solid Waste Michael Hanan, Waste Management Director 1115 North Tower Road Fergus Falls, MN tail.mn.us Wadena County has a transfer station with demolition landfill. The county also has year round appliance, electronics, HHW, tires, and waste oil collection. A: Get the businesses in the county on board with recycling. A: Adding remote recycling locations (Roll off Containers), as well as appliance and electronics collection. Increasing the number of roll offs at each location, and number of locations in the county. 2007: No Response $187, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: 2, Total Local Expenses: $132, Total Tons Generated: 17,475 Tons Landfilled: 2,188 Tons Recycled: 8,384 Recycling Rate: 47.9% Tons Resource Recovery: 6,319 Tons Not Collected:

84 Waseca Waseca County Solid Waste Lee Williams, Solid Waste Administrator State Highway Waseca, MN Waseca County operates a small transfer station/mrf which includes a seasonal HHW facility, yard waste compost facility, and also problem material disposal services. A: Diversion of wood from the demolition waste stream to produce animal bedding/landscape materials. Waseca County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 19, Year Growth Projection: 9.2% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $736, $296, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $7, Total Local Expenses: $236, Total Tons Generated: 50,173 Tons Landfilled: 7,355 Tons Recycled: 38,698 Recycling Rate: 77.1% Tons Resource Recovery: 3,552 Tons Not Collected: 78 82

85 Washington County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Washington Washington County has not completed the survey. Population: 233, Year Growth Projection: 21.1% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : No Response $1,469, State SCORE Grant: $529, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Other Grants: $118, Total Local Expenses: $820, Total Tons Generated: 192,722 Tons Landfilled: 33,326 Tons Recycled: 88,918 Recycling Rate: 46.1% Tons Resource Recovery: 64,599 Tons Not Collected: 0 83

86 Watonwan Watonwan County Public Works Marjorie Smith, Solid Waste Administrator th Avenue South St. James, MN marjorie.smith@co.watonwan.mn.us Watonwan County Courthouse in St. James, Minnesota Watonwan County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 11, Year Growth Projection: 2.2% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $243, $246, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $2, Total Local Expenses: $192, Total Tons Generated: 12,044 Tons Landfilled: 8,786 Tons Recycled: 1,922 Recycling Rate: 16.0% Tons Not Collected: 1,049 84

87 Wilkin County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Facility Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Wilkin Wilkin County Environmental Department Bruce Poppel, Environmental Officer th Street South Breckenridge, MN bpoppel@co.wilkin.mn.us Population: 6, Year Growth Projection: 4.9% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $316, $305, State SCORE Grant: $52, State HHW Grant: $0.00 Total Local Expenses: $253, Total Tons Generated: 4,317 Tons Landfilled: 2,342 Tons Recycled: 1,021 Recycling Rate: 23.7% Tons Not Collected:

88 Winona Winona County Environmental Services Jill Johnson, Environmental Services Director 225 West 2 nd Street Winona, MN jjohnson@co.winona.mn.us Winona County Household Hazardous Waste Facility In Winona County, solid waste disposal services are provided by licensed haulers who determine final waste destination. The county contracts for curbside, multi family and institutional recycling collections, along with providing 18 rural recycling drop sites. Other popular programs include appliance and tire collections as well as a HHW facility. A: Increase curbside collection frequency and provide staff at rural drop sites. A: The HHW waste facility is open weekdays and Monday evenings to provide extensive opportunity for residents to drop off HHW. The program is very well received and appreciated by citizens. Winona County is working towards waste reduction, energy conservation and sustainability through Sustain Winona, a collaborative effort of local governments, colleges and area schools. Winona County Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: 49, Year Growth Projection: 1.1% 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: $ : $874, $860, State SCORE Grant: $116, State HHW Grant: $29, Total Local Expenses: $714, Total Tons Generated: 63,047 Tons Landfilled: 31,639 Tons Recycled: 28,931 Recycling Rate: 45.9% Tons Not Collected: 1,217 86

89 the WLSSD Paint Management Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection Population: N/A 10 Year Growth Projection: N/A 2007 Tax Levy per Capita: N/A 2007: No Response $2,777, State SCORE Grant: $241, State HHW Grant: $260, Other Grants: $31, Total Local Expenses: $2,244, Total Tons Generated: 120,222 Tons Landfilled: 62,443 Tons Recycled: 52,246 Recycling Rate: 43.5% Tons Not Collected: 2,796 WLSSD Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD) Jack Ezell, Manager of Planning 2626 Courtland Street Duluth, MN website not availble The WLSSD main plant, with the compost site, SW transfer station, and HHW building in the forefront WLSSD's waste management system includes a solid waste transfer station that accepts MSW and Demo Waste that is hauled to a landfill, includes a aggressive waste reduction and recycling program with curbside and drop centers, a 7900 TPY source separated compost facility, a regional HHW program and a Material Recovery Center that collects various items for disposal, recycling and reuse. your county s recycling rate to 60%? A: Direct initial and follow up one on one education with businesses as to the options for waste reduction and recycling. Also, increasing the source separation of compostable materials for the WLSSD composting site. action you have taken or are planning to take: A: All the WLSSD programs are extremely successful and effective in serving the public for their recycling and disposal needs. Specifically, the source separated compost site is to be noted as it is the only one of its kind in the state of Minnesota. Since March 2008, the WLSSD has mandated local generators of compostable food waste to source separate their pre consumer waste. The education of these businesses has been very detailed therefore achieving outstanding levels of compliance. 87