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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/13/1990 - Solid Waste Abatement Commission AGENDA SOLID WASTE ABATEMENT COMMISSION EAGAN, MINNESOTA EAGAN MUNICIPAL CENTER CONFERENCE ROOMS A & B TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1990 11:30 A.M. I. ROLL CALL AND ADOPTION OF AGENDA II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES III. STAFF REPORT A. 1990 Performance Funding Levels - City Council Approval B. Multi - family Recycling Update C. Annual Report LL IV. OLD BUSINESS 4 A. Municipal Compost Site Options - Fee Schedule B. Dakota County plans V. NEW BUSINESS A. Earth Day Activities VI. OTHER BUSINESS VII. DISTRIBUTION VIII. NEXT MEETING IX. ADJOURNMENT MEMO TO: CHAIRS MANN & HOEL & ALL MEMBERS OF THE SOLID WASTE ABATEMENT COMMISSION FROM: RECYCLING SPECIALIST HAGEMAN DATE: FEBRUARY 6, 1990 SUBJECT: EAGAN SOLID WASTE ABATEMENT COMMISSION MEETING OF FEBRUARY 13, 1990 A regular meeting of the Eagan Solid Waste Abatement Commission will be held on Tuesday, February 13, 1990 at 11:30 a.m. in the Eagan Municipal Center Conference Rooms A and B. The City will provide a box lunch to commission members requesting one by noon, Monday, May 8. Please contact Kris Hageman or Jane Helebrant at 454 -8100 to indicate whether you will attend and your luncheon preference. I. ROLL CALL AND ADOPTION OF AGENDA The agenda, as presented or modified, requires adoption by the Commission. II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES A copy of the minutes of the Solid Waste Abatement Commission meeting of January 9, 1990 is enclosed on pages $ through 6 for your review. These minutes, subject to any change, require approval by the Commission. III. STAFF REPORT A. 1990 Performance Funding Levels -City Council Approval- - At the January 16, 1990 meeting of the Eagan City Council, the revised performance funding level was approved. Residential recycling collections will be awarded $30.00 a ton through December 31, 1990. In addition, the multi - family collections will be awarded $30.00 a ton (as part of the residential weights) plus $.50 per unit for those units not using the City provided recycling containers. The $.50 per unit will be extended until December 31, 1991. The performance funding level will again be evaluated at the end of the year to establish rates for 1991. B. Multi- Family Recycling Update- - Recycling activity has increased in the last few months. Individual buildings, managers and haulers have taken the initiative to organize collection programs. As of February 19, 1990, 1,163 units will have recycling collection services. C. Annual Report- - On January 30, the City submitted the 1989 Monitoring Report for Recycling Program Activities. Items Included: Program activities status Tonnage reports Expenditures report Tonnage totals for the year (curbside collections and area drop - offs): 1,634 (R) + 313 (drop -offs) Yardwaste: 162 tons Woodwaste volumes: 1,760 cubic yards (chipped) *Copies of the monitoring report will be available upon request. *Please see monthly tonnage graph enclosed without page number. IV. OLD BUSINESS A. Municipal Compost Site Options - Fee Schedule After further discussions with Dakota County Recycling staff, new information regarding County compost site user fees has become available. Recently passed in the Physical Development Committee, a fee schedule for the Lakeville site has been set. Schedule A is effective immediately upon County Board of Commissioners approval and Schedule B is effective June 1, 1990. Schedule A Residential Commercial Bagged $.50 /bag $5.50 cubic yard Unbagged 0 $3.75 cubic yard Prunings 0 $3.00 cubic yard Schedule B Residential Commercial Bagged $.50 /bag $5.50 cubic yard Unbagged $1 cubic yard or $3.75 cubic yard $.15 /bag Prunings $2.00 cubic yard $3.00 cubic yard If the City of Eagan chooses to follow these rate structures, rough estimates of revenues (using 1989 weights /participation) would be as follows: After quick calculation, the site will not see a lot of revenue from grass and leave deliveries. The money will come from prunings ($2.00 after June 1). Using measurements from 1989 and estimating delivered cubic yards versus chipped cubic yards, the fees could possibly generate $6,000. The amount generated from grass and leaves will be minimal as the majority of material comes into the site unbagged. What we hope will happen is at best, the revenue will pay for all operations (transfer, chipping, etc.) and at the worst, partially offset our costs incurred. Continued discussions with County staff will be necessary to fully organize yardwaste activity funding. B. Dakota County Plans- - Discussion continues with County staff regarding options for use of the Eagan compost site and other site locations. We have submitted a list of possible sites for a "County" facility located within the City limits. County staff has shown some interest in these proposals and we will meet again on Wednesday, February 7 to further review our options. V. NEW BUSINESS A. Earth Day Activities- - The twentieth anniversary of Earth Day and the large scale celebration nears. There are many planning and preparation tasks ahead. After our discussion at the last few meetings and brainstorming with individuals in other departments, I have generated the following list of ideas: Officially declaring April 22, 1990 as Earth Day. Promoting and celebrating the first year of the Recycling Program and its success. 2nd Annual Community Clean Up Day, Saturday, April 28th. Involvement in the spring Parks programs, i.e. Tiny Tots activities including videos, arts and crafts projects and outdoor activities. A backyard composting seminar held on our compost site or at an area park. Native Prairie Walk possibly scheduled on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22nd. Recyclable packaging and products made with recycled materials display at local grocery stores. Connect Arbor Day celebrations and possibly the City Tree Sale to the Earth Week activities. Hopefully with these ideas, we can generate a plan for scheduled activities and additional ideas for support. 3 VI. OTHER BUSINESS VII. DISTRIBUTION Enclosed in your packets are the following materials: 1. On page '7 , you will find a copy of "Recycling View", Peter Grogan, BioCycle, December 1989. 2. On page , you will find a copy of "Staff Opinion" article by Brenda Haugen, This Week News, January 1990. 3. Enclosed on pages through /7 , beginning with "Focus on the Enviro ent ", you will find articles and editorials from a special Focus Section in the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, January 21, 1990. 4. Enclosed without page number, you will find the 1989 monthly tonnage report. VIII. NEXT MEETING The next meeting of the Solid Waste Abatement Commission will be on Tuesday, March 13, 1990 at 11:30 a.m. Please mark your calendars for that meeting. IB. ADJOURNMENT The meeting will adjourn at or about 1:00 p.m. Re ycling Speci -City of Eagan gib MINUTES OF SOUD WASTE ABATEMENT COMMISSION MEETING January 9, 1990 A regular meeting of the Eagan Solid Waste Abatement Commission was held on Tuesday, January 9, 1990 at 11:30 a.m. Present were Cindy Ista, Darlene Bahr, Earl Milbridge, Larry Knutson and Tom Molene. Chair Tom Mann and Terry Schnell joined the meeting in progress. Absent were Brenda Marshal, Tim Hoel and Todd Gatz. Also present were Recycling Coordinator Hageman, Assistant to the City Administrator Hohenstein and representatives of the public. ACTING CHAIR Larry Knutson volunteered to act as Chair until Tom Mann arrived. AGENDA Upon motion by Bahr, seconded by Ista, all members voting in favor, the agenda for the meeting was approved as presented. MINUTES Upon motion by Knutson, seconded by Milbridge, all members voting in favor, the minutes of the December 12, 1989 meeting were approved as presented. YARD WASTE DROP OFF ALTERNATIVES Recycling Coordinator Hageman reviewed the options available to the City with respect to the compost program. She stated that those options included: 1. Maintaining the current site and operation. 2. Modifying the existing site to be a transfer station. 3. Identifying a new site for either a full - service compost site or transfer station. 4. Provide no drop -off location in Eagan. With respect to the current site, Hageman stated that the site itself would have to be modified to accept additional yard wastes and that yard waste volumes were expected to increase dramatically in 1990. She further stated that the site was programmed for other uses and community buildings in the future. Hohenstein stated that there is also concern from City employees and neighboring residential areas about the odor from the existing site. He stated that in the long term it would be necessary to deal with the odor problem or relocate the whole facility to a more compatible commercial area. Hageman stated that while additional management of the site could reduce odors to a degree, it would be difficult to apply enough labor to the site to keep it completely odor free. She stated that she had spoken with several refuse firms about the possibility of placing a 30 yard roll off container on the site. She stated that once a week pick -up of such a container would cost roughly $350 - 400 per month. Committee members discussed this issue and asked staff to research further the number of 30 yard containers likely to be filled in a given on peak and off peak week. Floyd Hiar suggested that the Commission consider the implementation of user fees for yard waste drop off. Darlene Bahr supported this concept and stated that the fees should help defray City costs, but not be at a level comparable to hauler charges for the same service. Tom Molene suggested a tiered pricing structure with lower prices in the spring and fall when fewer people are able to maintain all their yard wastes on their property with a higher fee in the summer to encourage people to leave grass clippings on their lawns. Ista stated that it is unfortunate that the City would consider charging for use of the site. Knutson stated that it reenforces waste reduction by requiring people to pay for what they throw away. Floyd Hiar asked if it would make sense for the City to consider a single vendor for their yard waste collection. Committee members suggested that this would probably be more expensive than the existing system and that it deviates from the City policy to require the service of the private sector. Bahr suggested that the transfer station alternative should be explored for the current site for 1990 and that the City work with the county to identify a potential future county transfer site at a different location. Upon motion by Knutson, seconded by Schnell, all members voting in favor, the Commission recommended that the City maintain the existing compost site as a transfer facility and directed staff to develop a budget for a transfer service and a two tier user fee. Upon motion by Knutson, seconded by Bahr, all members voting in favor, it was recommended that staff pursue long term alternatives with the county to identify a transfer or processing location at another site. 1990 HAULER TONNAGE RATES Hageman introduced the issue of the 1990 tonnage compensation level. She stated that in setting the multi - family compensation rate the Commission had not specifically addressed the tonnage payment level. Hohenstein indicated that the staff had been in touch with various haulers and had reviewed cost information which led staff to believe that a tonnage payment on the order of $30 per ton would help insure that residents could save more from volume based fees than would be the direct cost of recycling. Knutson stated that costs for recycling generally run between $90 and $110 per ton. Avoided tipping fees, recyclable markets and tonnage support payments offset these amounts. Upon motion by Bahr, seconded by Schnell, all members voting in favor, the Commission recommended that the City Council set the tonnage payment at $30 per ton from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1990. COMMISSION RECOGNITION Knutson complimented the Eagan Solid Waste Abatement Commission on developing the open hauling recycling system which is being copied throughout Dakota county and the metropolitan area at this time. He stated that the positive input from all members of the Commission have made it a worthwhile and innovative body and he felt it appropriate to give the group recognition for their hard work. FUTURE AGENDAS Members suggested that agendas in the immediate future include: earth day events, including a first year anniversary recognition of curb side recycling and possible coordination with the City tree sale and the recycling container policy. ADJOURNMENT The next regular meeting of the Eagan Solid Waste Abatement Commission will be on Tuesday, February 13, 1990 at 11:30 a.m. Upon motion by Knutson, seconded by Ista, all members voting in favor, the meeting was adjourned at 12:58 p.m. JDH Date Secretary 6 ..........,„.,,,,..,..,,,,,,„,..,„,„,.,,,,,,,,.. RECYCLING VIEW ‘, it L ‘ streets to assure control of a percent- cled newsprint content focused on Peter L. Grogan age of the wastepaper. Recycling collec- newspaper publishers will end up in the Lion vehicles will be as common on our courts and is not very likely to offer highways as beer trucks. The multi- short-term market relief. But, volun- national hauling firms will continue to tary participation might! Market eco- play a significant role and the competi- nomics will not return to record highs tion will drive smaller hauling firms in the next few years, but will probably into the waste reduction business. stabilize. For processing, certainly the mate - Composting of municipal solid waste rial recovery facilities (MRFs) are the (MSW) and yard waste will continue to wave of the future and they are going be looked at by local governments as to become as commonplace a part of an opportunity to significantly reduce the urban infrastructure as firehouses. the waste stream. Yard waste collection The total urban material recovery facil- similar to residential collection for recy- THE NEW DECADE ity (TURF) is the next phase with clables will be common. Backyard com- multiprocessing functions that include posting will be a part of the public out - processing residential and commercial reach of local governments in urban waste as well as demolition materials areas. The MSW facilities historically and other activities. We will experience reserved for European cities will be a continued trend toward wet/dry col- developed in urban areas. As for the lection processing and refuse - derived markets for the end product, stable leg - HE STAGE has been set for solid - fuel as a secondary market. islation will mandate usage by govern waste (reduction) management in The waste stream itself is in for some meat as a first step toward market sta- the next decade and a few things changes. While it has always been dy- bilization. are certain. The one - dimensional sys- namic, it will be more so in the coming The legislative arena concerning tem of waste collection and disposal is decade. Without question we are mov- solid waste regulations will continue to coming to an end. Future waste han- ing in the direction of the designer be hot! Laws mandating specific per - dling systems will be more complex. waste stream. Historically, the waste centages of waste reduction will con - The throw -away societal habits that stream has been indirectly designed by tinue to appear at the state level and started in the 1940s and '50s will die in consumer preference and that will cer- begin to emerge at the national level. the 1990s. Costs of traditional disposal tainly continue. However, the future The economic development aspects of will continue to escalate, so solid -waste will include legislative mandates as to waste recovery will have a positive im- "sticker shock" is here to stay. Other product design and therefore waste pact on the gross national product. factors are less certain, but based on streams that are more easily recover- The solid -waste management behav- the way waste management has been able. Most states will adopt the atti- for of every citizen in the nation will developing, let's take a quick look into tude that waste disposal is a privilege change! During the 1959 "Kitchen de- the crystal ball. and will control content of the stream bate" between then vice - president Residential curbside recycling collec- and the percentage of the stream that Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Ni- tion of recyclable materials, once con- is recoverable. In short, dumping kite Khrushchev, Nixon told Khrush- sidered too costly by many cities, has truckloads of waste with large percent- chev that the American system worked certainly come into vogue in the late ages of recyclables and compostables because "44 million American families 1980s. The trend will continue with ev- at the landfill or waste - to-energy facil- own 56 million cars, 50 million televi- ery major U.S. metropolitan area pro- ity will seem like a prehistoric activity. lion sets, 143 radio sets and 31 million viding collection service or back -end There will continue to be market dif- of those families own their own home." separation. The service will reach be- ficulties in the early 1990s. However, In the '90s, the American system will yond the urban core and into rural ar- new capacity announcements for paper work because citizens will know how to eas previously viewed as too expensive mills continue to roll off the press, and . manage all those disposables as well as to service. In those areas, one truck will this capacity is good news for waste- their everyday solid waste in an envi- collect waste and recyclables. paper demand. Demand will also be ronmentally and financially sound Recent history tells us that primarily driven by the fact that the national bal- manner. • waste haulers and public works depart - ance of trade deficit cannot continue at ments will provide collection service. its negative pace and therefore, as a na- Peter Grogan is the Director of Materials This will continue and nonprofit organ - tion, we are going to depend less on vir- Recovery and an Associate with R. W izations will play less of a role. Some gin paper inputs. Beck and Associates, a national engineer- wastepaper dealers will take to the The new legislative mandate for racy- ing firm. 66 B10CYCLE 7 DECEMBER 1989 staff opinion Recycling means more than extra dollars By BRENDA HAUGEN sneak them out the back door. cardboard box, just right for fit - Grandma put the cans in big, ting normal -size paper in, rested What's all this I hear about green trash bags in the garage on my desk waiting for me. I was recycling? It certainly is news to connected to her house. All went all ready to use it as a file, when me — good news. well until the summer months , someone in the office enlightened The idea of recycling is good. I arrived bringing with them an me. The box was to be filled with don't think many, if any, people ant problem that would have paper to be recycled. Oh! would disagree with that. Getting given any exterminator chills. A few days later when she real - people to take part in a recycling Grandma's • aluminum can- ized I was throwing the remains program is the trick, though, but I saving days left with Grandpa in from my four- can -a -day pop habit think Minnesotans are on the his old bags pickup tothe near took cycl- worker garbage howed me where the old Iasi month I h fr om Noort Burnsville Dakota - lumpy g last mtom North — ing center — about 60 miles away. cans were saved for recycling the state where people think of Generally, recycling in North purposes. Again I was surprised. recycling in terms of children Dakota is a way to make money. Later, when I attended my first saving and collecting bags and Sure, a few country ditches may bags of aluminum cans to earn a be pick cleaner of meetingn g ton C i t of C o u 1 i 1 seemed ew bucks, and very i that. It p' pop and beer cans rs of cans a whole a pickup pay y o of them, ng the land and makiing use of voted in favor a based of ns meant take-home a available resources was not the garbage system to encourage about $30. A couple of years ago my main reason we North Dakotans commercial users to recycle. Recycling some items is already grandmother saved aluminum recycled. p ans for h e upr about twice who different as far as the financial Farmington, as sector in other towns, pans the up year due to the great distance aspect of the idea goes, but at and Mayor Eugene Kuchera in- between their two homes. least serious efforts are being formed me Farmington is looking Grandma really made a great made from the common citizen for markets is for eo ther items not effort. Along with saving cans at on up. I have not been here long presently home, she "stole" cans from the enough to discover all the reasons The interest taken in recycling restaurant she worked at. I say behind recycling in Minnesota, was a pleasant surprise to me "stole" because another woman but I have been here long enough when I moved here. I hope the working at the restaurant also for it to make an impact on me. idea continues to grow, and collected them for one of her My first day at work at maybe Minnesota will serve as an grandchildren so Grandma had to Thisweek Newspapers, a brown, example for other states. t! FOCUS ON ENVIRONMENT Individual incentives lead' to g lobal action ust do it. These are our first words of advice in promoting this ' year's editorial board focus goal: To encourage environmentally sound individual and public action. There seems never to have been more public motivation on behalf of environmental protection and restoration. The trick is in choosing among the many urgent needs and attending to them, both as individual people who can make a difference and as a society. The Midwest, perhaps through its natural blessings, perhaps through its cultural common sense, has an environmental • awareness to celebrate. This heritage is a sound starting place for the challenges, global and local, that begin with personal will to make the world livable for everyone. A textbook overview of this battered Earth might list the huge problems this way: slowing global warming, soil erosion and deforestation, • O handling hazardous waste, improving air quality, conserving energy, managing solid waste and water resources and controlling MOW '90 pop growth. Yet, while it is helpful to think about this big list, acting from a smaller agenda is preferable. That will determine whether the big list shrinks before a throwaway society creates a throwaway planet. Recovery begins in every trash can, in every gasoline tank, in every schoolroom. It depends on every level of government, from a rural watershed district to the United Nations Environment Program. It depends on you to push these bodies of government wisely, but firmly. Following our own advice will mean that the editorial board must choose points of emphasis. One will be fundamental commitment to oppose bumper - sticker thinking about the environment. Us- or- them, for -or- against, litmus -test attitudes lead to unproductive battles. Rigid orthodoxy can foster antagonisms that cut off peal alliances for problem - solving. They can strangle political outreach for the environmental community. They can paint with a destructively broad brush across surfaces that cry out for the delicate application of many colors. Impressionist landscapes do much more to beautify the Earth than bumper stickers. • • You can expect to hear from us about a broad range of environmental items. We're referring to concerns their way to concressional and legislative agendas faster than trucks are linmg up at landfills: amendments of the U.S. Clean Air Act, oil ' spill liability legislation, public lands protection, wetlands • expansion, forest management. • You can expect to hear from us about follow- through on en ' tme pttal laws that have moved to the stage of implementation, notably the Minnesota recycling and ground water protection laws from the last legislative session and the plastics- control ordinances that will go into effect this year in the Twin Cities. You can expect to hear encouragement for the concepts of self- empowerment fostered by Earth Day 1990. Figure out what to do and just do it. A S- year -old can sort recyclable cans and snip plastic can rings. A family can turn off lights that aren't being used. A shopper can apply the green -power test to purchases. 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Easy to use." layers of packaging "It's been a free ride up to now," says William -•'- Souper Combo comes in five y Pa Rathje, an Arizona archaeologist who has devoted ' �� with everything you need c or a quick meal, from nearly two decades to the study of trash cans and s lactic bowl to its own dispos- ready- made soup in a p landfills. • c able microwave heating tray. n Eve But now the bill 'for America's garbage is coming �� � "All you have to do is clean your spoo • rythmg the vice- president of packaging, "just du Garbage disposal costs, long hidden ton charge for `,ti c throw, away." • throw awa Garbage are soaring. The average per-ton ' At the Bergen County waste transfer station, man- damping are ash more than doubled in the last six _,, agar Jimmy Bocchi a perches on an observation deck years, from 811 to $27. In the landfill -shy Northeast, Vi Y � " . above mounds of smelly trash. East Lyme, Conn., spends more than =100 a ton to Every weekdaY,1,600 tons of garbage from 69 New dump its trash. r: J communities is loaded here onto trucks that The cost of landfills in the Twin Cities and through - ° ,' " transport it to landfills in Ohio, Michigan full. «wi nt out Minnesota also has risen in the years, to Off Office of is full. What ing to Neal Miller, spokesman ' , 4 i . are y because the county's own dump "We of no `'i f /4( _ are you going to do ?" Bocchmo shrugs. g Waste Management. New state rules on building, op- t choice" erating and closing landfills have forced landfill oper- ` Between the creators of the nation's throwaway so- ators to raise costs, he said. 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'1 I'd like to nominate the following outstanding active teacher In Roseville and Shoreview, $2,500 Ashland Oil Teacher Achievement Awards.* Waste Management- Blaine is , charging residents who keep their Thacher's Full Name weekly garbage load to 64 gallons - several dollars less per month than t ? Middle Initial First people on "take -all” contracts, ac- a 1 cording to Jim Gencauski, the x` Scho( company's general manager. The average family of four cannot keep ' .. School District County its garbage to 64 gallons without recycling, he says. Street Address Advocates of these efforts draw City State Zip a parallel with America's energy crisis. "In the '70s, you saw a lot of innovative pricing of energy and regulation geared toward encour - : Business Phone aging conservation and discourag- ing waste because we found our- ".- *Only one nomination form required per teacher. Incomplete nom selves in a crisis we didn't think we ;.> ; ; nation forms will be ruled ineligible. Nominations open through could engineer our way out of. February 14, 1990. Program only available in Kentucky, Ohio, West solid waste crisis has much of that `, 3` Virginia and Minnesota. dimension," McNally says. Mail to: Ashland Oil Teacher Achieveiu That's the predicament Seattle found itself in seven years ago. go L ,, P.O. Box 34457 In 1983, tests at one of the city's Louisville, KY 40232 -4457 two landfills discovered that water — seeping through the garbage pit was laden with toxics, creating a noxious body of water dubbed the • "black lagoon." Two years later, methane gas leaking from the landfill forced 1 Th n Tirn er w people living in neighboring homes to flee on Thanksgiving Day. The situation worsened when the h city's other landfill, in nearby Kent, was shut down after a even get plaints from officials there. e. A county landfill agreed to take the Nvith his city's trash but the cost skyrocket- ed from $11 to $31.50 a ton. • To cut costs by getting citizens . to waste less, Seattle uses what D i- He going to nominate him for an Ashland even" with Mr. Andrews by nominating hir ana Gale, the bead of Seattle's sot- id waste utility, calls "economic Oil 'leacher Achievement Award. for one of ten $2,500 'leacher Achievemen carrots and sticks" — aggressive Before'fimothy took Mr. Andrews' Awards sponsored by Ashland 0i1. recycling programs and, for the garbage that's left, collection rates eighth grade science class, his interest in The Teacher Achievement Award based on volume measured by the can, bag, and ultimately, the learning would have fit into a thimble. were created in order to recognize out - pound. But Mr. Andrews' legendary standing teachers like Jim Andrews. Fee Is to volume enthusiasm for science opened a world of By- the -pound is at Skuma San z's idea. di for Timothy that he'd never co used to work at ha�Francis- Ashland do's electric utility which charges thought possible. by the smallest unit of wer, the kilowatt hour. Consumers can see Now, Timothy hopes to be an and conservation — on t heir impact of their consumption an — astronaut someday ... and he plans to "get their monthly bills. With an EPA grant, Skumatz NA V Ashland Chemlca and a colleague, Bill Ankney, are sunet�u,teac�. �'� working to retrofit a garbage truck h e lives with on-board computerized 'le chanc scales and to brand garbage cans with the _"",_"+� distinctive black and white bar codes found on grocery items. Then In Minnesota, additional nomination forma are available at superAmerica stores, Valvoline Rapid oil ('hang the utility can charge customers for the precise amount of garbage ,� b r- Tonnages (monthly) 0 o O C o a o .z. e o c �' o L I . 0 Q r CP 3 m N D TA 3 co 1 1 14 c 3 + 0 -IN L c ttl D c 1 0) m V •r O O 0 6 I Z D i m r J