Recycling

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The City of St. Louis Park partnered with Eureka Recycling on October 1, 2008. This change has not altered resident collection day, the bins used for recycling, or the carts used for garbage.

By partnering with Eureka Recycling, St. Louis Park will continue to meet the solid waste program’s goals of high-quality, cost-effective service, and environmental stewardship, including becoming a zero-waste community. St. Louis Park chose Eureka Recycling for several reasons including its mission to educate residents on reducing waste, a commitment to improve environmental stewardship within the city, ability to collect additional materials, and a willingness to share revenue with the city from the sale of recyclable materials.

For more information about the recycling program, contact Eureka Recycling by:

Phone: (651) 222-SORT (7678)
Email: info@eurekarecycling.org
Web page: www.eurekarecycling.org

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"Why can't I recycle all my plastic?" All Plastics Image
If you are confused about plastic recycling, you are not alone and we want to help.

The City of St. Louis Park has asked Eureka Recycling, your nonprofit waste reduction partner, to answer the single-most common question about your recycling program, "Why can't I recycle all my plastic?" Previous haulers in St. Louis Park collected all types of plastics, leading residents to believe that all plastics are recyclable, when in fact only plastic bottles with a #1 or #2 can be recycled here, and in most communities around the country. To learn more, please read "The Complications and Limitations of Recycling Plastic" or call Eureka Recycling's hotline to talk to a specialist.

Additional Resources:

Fact Sheet: The Complications and Limitations of Recycling Plastic
Eureka Recycling's plastics fact sheet highlights the most common questions about plastics recycling and explains the complications and limitations of recycling plastics:

Why can't I recycle all my plastic?
What do the arrows on plastic products really mean and why can't all plastics be recycled?
What health risks are associated with using plastics?
Why is producer responsibility the key to recycling a wider variety of plastics?
Download the fact sheet click here.

To see a video on plastics recycling...
The City of St. Louis Park produced an "Inside the Park" segment about your recycling program on Civic TV channel 17. Watch the video online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_5-18spMq4&feature=channel

Plastic Recycling in the Park Perspective
A newsletter article in the May/June Park Perspective focused on plastic recycling and is available at www.stlouispark.org/publications.htm.

For more information, contact Eureka Recycling.
Recycling Hotline (651) 222-SORT (7678)
Email info@eurekarecycling.org
Website www.eurekarecycling.org.
You can recycle all of these plastic bottles!

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Bins
The City provides free green recycling bins for residents to use for setting recyclables for curbside collection. Please do not use plastic bags (except for clothes and linens). Call the Eureka’s Recycling Hotline (651) 222-SORT (7678) or the City at (952) 924-2555 if you need additional recycling bins.

When you move, leave the recycling bin for the new occupants. Bins are the property of the City of St. Louis Park - not the individual resident.

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Recycling is collected from the curb or alley each week between 7am and 6pm, Monday through Friday except during holiday weeks. Recycling is picked up every week on the same day as your garbage is collected. To find your collection day, click here. To ensure collection, please have your recycling out by 7am. If you believe your recycling collection was missed, please call Eureka Recycling at (651) 222-7678.

When your collection day falls on a holiday, recycling collection will be one day later than your regularly scheduled day through Saturday (9am through 6pm). Recycling collection will be delayed one day for the following holidays in 2010 Holiday Collection Schedule

Holiday	Date
New Year's Day	January 1
Memorial Day	May 25
Independence Day	July 4
Labor Day	September 7
Thanksgiving	November 26
Christmas	December 25

Click here for an electronic version of the 2008-2009 Recycling Guide.

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If you put out material that is not recyclable, Eureka Recycling will leave an educational tag on the item informing you that the item is not recyclable. Place items that are not recyclable into your garbage. If you receive a tag and have a question about a tag, call Eureka at (651) 222-SORT (7678).

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Hennepin County Drop-Off Facilities
Residents can find information about year round drop-off facilities that accept recyclables, electronics, appliances, household hazardous wastes and trash. Click here for more information.

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Links
Eureka Recycling
ReThink Recycling
A-Z How To Get Rid of It
Plastic Bag Recycling
Recycle More Minnesota
Container Recycling Institute
National Crayon Recycling Program

print article Contact City Hall for a new resident packet at (952) 924-2500 or info@stlouispark.org.

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Phone Books Piling Up? Opt Out!
Tired of phone books piling up on your front doorstep, especially if you don't use them anymore? Opting out is even better than recycling. Currently, Minnesotans recycle about 20 percent of the 5,000 tons of phone books that are delivered in the state each year.

Simply click here to go to the website and enter your ZIP code to find the participating phone book publishers in your area that are making it possible for you to opt out of receiving phone books. You will need to inform each phone book publisher listed that you would like delivery stopped. The opt-out takes 60 days to process. You may miss the deadline for a few of the phone books this year, but opting out today will ensure you won't receive them next year.

If you have phone books that you need to recycle, contact Hennepin County for information on your recycling options. Most curbside programs take phone books year around.

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Recyclopedia
If you'd like some pointers on how to properly dispose of an item, take a look at St. Louis Park's Recyclopedia 2008-2009. The booklet provides information on how to recycle, donate and properly dispose of a wide range of materials. For a free copy, call Public Works at (952) 924-2555 or e-mail pworks@stlouispark.org with your request, name and complete mailing address. Online version. pdf format icon

The 2010-2011 Recyclopedia will be posted when available.

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St. Louis Park residents now have the opportunity to recycle more materials than ever before! Residents can now recycle pop and beer boxes, milk cartons and juice boxes, and clean and dry clothes, linens and shoes to the curbside recycling program.

Please sort your recycling into two categories, Bottles & Cans and Paper & Cardboard. Your materials must be sorted into these two sorting categories to make sure they can be recycled. Place recycling materials in city recycling bins. Paper bags may be used to separate your materials inside the bins. Please do not use plastic bags.

Sort 1: Bottles & Cans

Place glass and plastic bottles, steel and aluminum cans, and milk cartons and juice boxes together in a bin. Items such as yogurt tubs, plastic bags, and plastic plant pots cannot be recycled at the curb. For more information, call Eureka Recycling to request a copy of the “Plastic Recycling: Complications and Limitations” fact sheet, or visit www.eurekarecycling.org.

NEW! Recycle your milk cartons and juice boxes! These cartons are made of 70-85% paper which is separated from the metal lining and plastic coating in a pulping process.

It's Easy!
1. Remove caps, rinse clean & flatten (plastic pour spouts are okay)
2. Put these items together in a bin or paper bag. No plastic bags!

Plastic tubs (like yogurt), produce, deli, or take-out containers, plastic toys, dishes or cookware, ceramics or pottery, insert a space styrofoam, window glass or mirrors, aerosol cans, scrap metal, motor oil bottles or bottles used for home needle disposal
Sort 2: Paper & Cardboard
Place newspaper (with inserts), magazines, mail, phonebooks, office paper, corrugated cardboard (flatted to 3ft x 3ft), boxboard, including pop and beer boxes together in a bin. No plastic bags!

Egg cartons, pizza boxes, paper cups or plates, napkins, refrigerated or frozen food boxes, boxes with food or grease, tissue or wrapping paper

Clothes & Linens

St. Louis Park residents can now recycle clean and dry clothes, linens and shoes on any collection day. Torn and worn items are OK. Put items in a sturdy plastic bag. Fasten and clearly mark the bag “Clothes & Linens” and place it next to your other recycling. Clothes & Linens bags do not need to be inside your recycling bin. Clean items only (torn & worn items are OK).

Wet or dirty items or dirty, used, or soiled rags

print article Walkup service is where the driver collects your recyclables at a location on your property other than at the curb or alley. Residents can sign up for recycling walkup service by calling Eureka Recycling at (651) 222-SORT (7678).

The fee for recycling walk-up service is $3 per month starting Oct. 1, 2008, and will be billed directly to the customer by Eureka on an annual basis.

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