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Recycling In April each year, the Street/Park Department hosts a City Clean-up Day that has been very • successful. This effort is coordinated by Building and Zoning Department and is staffed by city workers and volunteers. Contractors collect and recycle appliances and tires. Furniture that is serviceable is collected by Goodwill and the unserviceable furniture is collected by local trash haulers and taken to the RDF Plant. City workers collect and process the scrap metal and batteries before selling them to local scrap metal dealers. Our largest commitment to recycling is the brush and lawn waste drop off facility. In 2001, we spent 464 hours for equipment and labor to process, haul and compost the material collected. This facility is very popular with the residents, but it requires a great deal more department time than I ever imagined. We transported about 5,304 c.y. of compost material or approximately 442 loads. In 2001, our oil/oil filters and anti-freeze recycling public drop-off collected 2,860 gallons of used oil, which was recycled through OSI and 400 gallons of anti-freeze was collected and just stored. We crushed and recycled approximately 1,330 oil filters. Once processed, the oil filters then fit into three 55 gallon containers that were recycled through OSI. City Tree Program Each household is eligible for two city funded twenty-five dollar discount coupons towards the purchase of shade trees from Steve's Nursery or Better Yards & Gardens. To make the program even more attractive, the nurseries each offer an additional 15% discount towards the purchase price of the trees. • Conifers are available for residents to purchase at a reduced cost. Street/Park staff orders the trees for residents to pick up at the street garage. The response has been overwhelming, and in 2001 we issued 200 shade tree certificates with 146 redeemed for shade trees at the nurseries and sold 147 conifers i