INFORMATION #1 12-14-2009
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City of
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MEMORANDUM
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The following is a breal~ down of the financials and materials collected from the City's Fall
Clean-Up Meek ~~ctober I9 -- 23} at the Elk River Landfill. This event served a total of 261
households, which included 229 residents. Thirty two non-residents tools advantage of the
mattress recycling, bringing in G8 mattresses.
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Clean-Up Meek
Taste Management credit}
Sherburne County
ECM Publishers Advertising}
Good~ill Industries
Novco delivery}
Total:
~v~nue en~rat~
X5,584.00
~1,2GI.72
~I,27I.59
ens~s
~IO,G8G,09
$GGO
~I,355.00
650.00
~13,351.0~
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Freon Containing Appliances
Appliances
Car Batteries
Electronics
Furniture not including mattresses and box springs}
Scrap Metal
Passenger tires
Tractor tines
Loads of }unl~ one load per household}
Mattresses ~~ 85 recycled through Goodurill Industries}
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27
84
24
252
79
351oads
X57
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59 loads;14.63 tons
200
The cost to City of Elk diver for 2009 Fall Clean Up weel~ was $5,233.75 x$22.85 per
participating household}. For comparison, the cost of the 209 Spring Clean Up weel~ was
$2,743.94 x$7.30 pet participating household with 37G households pa~:ticipating}. This is a
very successful program that residents look forward to participating in each year.
Residents are allowed to bring in one load of junk, but these items cannot be funded
through County subsidy, and therefore drastically increase the cost of our clean up events.
The landfill charges ~95~ton, while the cost through clean up week has remained a mere
$10~load. ~Ihile most loads of junk are small, averaging a landfill cost of approximately X35,
one resident's load during the Fall event was 1.05 tons,
Another source of high disposal costs is electronics. The average cost of an electronic item
at the landfill is $17 each, with a maximum cost of X30 per item ~ie: console TV's and
computer systems}.The clean up cost for residents has been ~6 per item, with computer
components having a nightly higher disposal rate. Sherburne County helps subsidize the
Spring clean up events and has recently approved use of clean up funds for the Fall events as
well when requested}.