Avoid them by choosing reusable options or refusing them when you can. Plastic utensils and straws are too small and difficult to sort at recycling facilities, and there aren’t good recycling markets for them. Properly dispose of all pressurized cylinders find options on the Green Disposal Guide. It is illegal to put propane tanks, helium tanks, and other pressurized cylinders in your household recycling or trash. Propane tanksĬylinders and tanks contain a compressed gas that makes them explosive and potential fire hazards. Take random metal items to a scrap metal recycler find locations on the Green Disposal Guide. All metal can be recycled, just not in your recycling cart at home. Random metal items such as pots and pans, pipes, hangers, and tools can damage equipment and harm workers at recycling facilities. Purchase high-quality items, use them for as long as possible, and donate items that are in good shape when you're ready to get rid of them. There are not good markets for recycling these items, and they are difficult to sort at recycling facilities. Large plastic items like laundry baskets, storage bins, lawn furniture, and plastic toys, and other large plastic items can't be recycled. Make sure to place your recycling loose in your recycling cart. Recycling in bags don’t get properly sorted at the recycling facility, and recyclers can’t tell what’s in the bag. Plastic bags and wrap can be recycled if brought back to a retail drop-off location.
Plastic bags and wrap get tangled in the equipment at recycling sorting facilities and workers spend hours each day removing them. Keep these items out of your recycling cart Plastic bags See our recycling guide (PDF) for the list of what's accepted. Know what goes in your recycling cartīrush up on the basics to make sure you're recycling the right stuff. The best thing you can do to support recycling is to make sure know what can be recycled and keep stuff that isn’t accepted out. And Minnesota state law prohibits materials separated and collected for recycling from being trashed. We have significantly lower contamination rates, or the amount of stuff placed in the recycling that can’t actually be recycled, than elsewhere in the country. Support recycling by recycling the right stuffįirst of all, know that you're recyclables are getting recycled! Unlike on the coasts where they rely heavily on international markets, recyclers in Minnesota send most of the material they collect to local and regional markets to be processed into new materials. This has left many Minnesotans wondering what is happening to the recycling placed in their bins, and what they can do now to support recycling. Recycling has been in the news a lot lately due to shifts in markets and international policy changes.
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