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Recycling Programs

Ink Cartridge & Cell Phones

Minnesota Waste Wise offers its members a free and easy ink cartridge and cell phone recycling program. Participants receive free postage-paid boxes in which to ship unwanted ink cartridges and cell phones. Once the boxes are full, they are picked up as part of your business’s regular UPS pickup and delivered to the recycling facility at no charge.

Click here to learn more about how your company can recycle ink cartridges & cell phones for free!

Plastic Bag & Stretch Wrap Recycling

The Twin-Cities based It's in the Bag program provides a recycling outlet for consumer and business plastic film material.

Consumers may deposit clean, dry, empty plastic bags in specially-designed It's in the Bag collection bins found at participating Twin Cities locations. Click here for a complete listing of participating locations.

Plastic bags collected through the It's in the Bag program are sorted in the Twin Cities by adults with developmental disabilities at Merrick Inc., a Minnesota Waste Wise member, and then sent to Winchester, VA-based manufacturer Trex Company. Trex processes the recycled bags to create plastic lumber used in backyard patios and decks.

The program is managed by Minnesota Waste Wise. Program founders include Kowalski's, Lunds/Byerly's, Merrick Inc., SUPERVALU and Trex Company. Current program sponsors are Minnesota Grocers Association and Target.

Click here to learn more about It's in the Bag.

Minnesota Mercury Recovery

Minnesota Waste Wise managed Minnesota Mercury Recovery, a program to recover and recycle mercury switches from end-of-life vehicles. The program was a voluntary partnership of Minnesota Waste Wise, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, and the Alliance of Auto Manufacturers.

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