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City of Edina 4801 W. 50th St. Edina, MN 55424
Contact: Kaylin Eidsness, Senior Communications Coordinator
Phone 952-833-9537 Fax 952-826-0389 EdinaMN.gov
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
City Seeks Online Comments on Organics Recycling
Edina, Minn., March 27, 2017 –The City’s next online discussion is now available at SpeakUpEdina.org. The
discussion, which focuses on organics recycling, is available until April 30.
Hennepin County has a goal to have 75 percent of waste recycled by 2030. In 2015, 46 percent of waste
generated in Hennepin County was diverted to recycling or organics recycling. Even though recycling in the
County has steadily increased, it’s slowed down the last few years. To help reach this goal, the City of Edina
encourages residents to increase their participation in recycling, including recycling organics. While only one
of the refuse haulers licensed in Edina currently accepts organics, there are other ways to reduce waste by
composing organics at home. The City of Edina is currently offering residents free MaxAir compost buckets
and BioBags, to collect kitchen scraps.
In this discussion, the City asks residents:
Are you tackling food waste in your home? If so, how? (Examples: backyard compost, arrangement
through refuse hauler, nothing right now, etc.)
If you’re not recycling food waste, what’s preventing you from doing so and what would encourage
you to recycle food waste?
If you are recycling organics, what did you think at first might be difficult or a barrier, but wasn’t?
The feedback from this discussion will be compiled and presented to the City Council May 16.
This month, the City has been gathering feedback on technology in public places. The City asked residents if
they would use free WiFi if it was available in outdoor parks and how many times a year; when community
groups use a public building for a meeting, what technology is expected in those meeting rooms for their use;
and if the City were to provide charging stations for phones and mobile devices, would they use them and
where. The feedback from this discussion will be compiled and presented to the City Council April 18.
To learn more about recycling organics and MaxAir compost buckets, visit EdinaMN.gov/Compost_Buckets.
To weigh in on a discussion, visit SpeakUpEdina.org.
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