HomeMy WebLinkAbout5.a. Dakota County 10 Year Recycling Award to City of Rosemount CITY OF ROSEMOUNT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR ACTION
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: '"--� OCTOBER 5, 1999
AGENDA: DAKOTA COUNTY RECOGNITION AWARD AGENDA SECTION:
ROSEMOUNT'S lOTH YR. OF CURBSIDE RECYCLING DEPT. HEADS REPORT
PREPARED BY: THOMAS D. BURT, CITY ADMINISTRATOR AGE� :� �
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Dakota County Commissioner Will Branning and Gail Prest, Solid Waste Abatement Manager at Dakota
County Environmental Management,will be present to give this recognition award for ten-years of recycling in
the City of Rosemount.
Tracie(Pechonick) Chamberlain was the first employee to help implement the recycling program. Then Tim
Brown,past Water Resource Coordinator and now Alyson Morris, our current Water Resource Engineer.
And in addition, the Public Works Directors have contributed to this program: Rich Heifti, Ron Wasmund, and
currently Bud Osmundson.
Thanks to these efforts the landfill now receive 45% of all solid waste material compared to 90% in 1988.
The City of Rosemount is proud to say they have contributed to a recycling program to help improve the
environment for the future and to continue educating the public to recycle.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: None necessary.
COUNCIL ACTION:
C O U N T Y
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DATE: September 24, 1999
Environmental Management T0: Mayor Cathy Busho
Barry C.Schade Rosemount Council Members
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Dakota County FROM: Gayle A. Prest, Solid Waste Abatemen
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612.891.7557 In 1999, the Dakota County Board of Commissioners is celebrating the ten-year anniversary
Fax 612.891.7588 of the County's curbside recycling programs. The success of these programs over the past
www.co.dakota.mn.us ten years would not have been possible without the wholehearted assistance of each
community in the County. To acknowledge the valuable cooperation by communities, the
County Board passed Resolution No. 99-248 that directs staff to provide recognition and
thanks to each community for its efforts in preserving our environment through support of the
curbside recycling programs.
Thanks to efforts by Rosemount and other communities, approximately 80 percent of Dakota
County households and businesses recycle. The amount of material recycled countywide
since 1989 would fill 932 miles of garbage trucks lined up bumper to bumper—about the
distance from St. Paul to Denver, Colorado. Yard waste is now composted rather than
landfilled. Recycling has preserved about 3.8 million cubic yards of landfill space, and
Dakota County households and businesses recycled 1,135,745 tons of materials between
1989 and 1998.
None of this would have been accomplished without the steady involvement and assistance
of the communities. In addition, communities have educated residents on the proper
management of solid waste, developed initiatives to establish recycling programs in their
buildings, and purchased products made from recycled materials. The success of Dakota
County's program resulted from the support of each community.
On behalf of the Dakota County Board of Commissioners, the accompanying plaque
recognizes the contributions by the City of Rosemount in supporting and operating its
curbside recycling program during the past ten years. The next ten years will see the need
for recycling continue, with a greater emphasis on reducing waste generation. Dakota
County's recycling and waste reduction programs can enjoy continued success only with the
participation of communities like Rosemount.
Dakota County Waste—Recycled, Landfilled and Processed (1988, 1998):
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