2018 Recycling Program

Funding for the City's recycling program is provided by the State of Minnesota through SCORE (the Select Committee on Recycling and the Environment).  Monies are disbursed to each county who can then determine how those funds are utilized.  Anoka County disburses the funds to each municipality with a base of $10,000 plus an additional $5.00 per household.  There are also enhancement funds available as well.  In past years, these were broken into specific categories (e.g. drop off center, parks recycling, multi-unit recycling, organics, etc.); however, for 2018, the County has modified the funding allocation to simply things.  The following categories still exist: Drop-Off events, Organics, and General Enhancements.  There is now also an "Additional Grant Program" category, which a municipality can request up to an additionally $30,000 for potential projects.

Staff does not have any specific, large scale recycling projects in mind.  But, we wanted to provide the EPB an opporunity to provide some input on potential programming that it feels would be beneficial to the residents AND increase the amount of materials recycled.  Staff will be pursuing funding to continue with our Parks Recycling, our Organics Drop-off Program, and potentially to fund some sort of yard waste drop-off opportunity in the fall.  This is an opportunity for the Board to give some input and feedback on other possible programming and/or projects that could be considered.  Applications are due to the County no later than January 31, 2018. 

Based on discussion but if the Board does identify additional recycling programming and/or projects, a motion to support pursuing that would be helpful.