Material Recovery Facility
Processing the following recyclables from McLeod County: Cardboard, Newspaper, Magazines, Boxboard, Plastics #1 & #2, Plastic Grocery Bags, Aluminum, Tin, Clear & Colored Glass, White Paper, Junk Mail, and Mixed Paper.
Recycling Drop-Site/Aluminum Redemption Center
Open from 8 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday. Closed on all County observed holidays. Located behind the McLeod County Household Hazardous Waste Facility at 1065 5th Avenue SE in Hutchinson.
McLeod County has built a comprehensive recycling collection program for the residents of the County. Each municipality within the county has curbside recycling. There are six recycling sheds and four drop-box sites. The curbside programs, recycling sheds and drop-box bins, along with school recycling in the county, are all 100% funded by McLeod County Solid Waste Management
Drop Boxes
Brownton 2nd Street N. between 4th and 5th Avenue N.
Glencoe 13th Street S. of Pro Auto next to railroad tracks
Hutchinson 1500 Adams Street SE (Creekside Soils)
Stewart Prior Avenue & Main Avenue West
Township Sheds
Acoma Township Town Hall, 230th Street, Hutchinson
Bergen Township McLeod County Highway Garage
Intersection of Co. Rd. 23 & 9, Lester Prairie
Hale Township McLeod County Highway Garage at
E. Ave. & Main St., Silver Lake
Lynn Township Town Hall, Co. Rd. 7, Hutchinson
Hassan Valley Township Across from Town Hall, Biscay
Helen Township Township Hall, N. of Plato on Co. Rd. 9
Your Recycling Efforts Do Make a Difference
Ever wonder what happens to the cans, bottles and paper that you put out at the curb for recycling every week? It conserves landfill space, reduces the need for waste incineration, conserves energy and creates jobs in Minnesota.
Didn't think it was that complicated?
Environmental benefits
Minnesota started recycling statewide in the late 1980s. Tougher federal regulations helped to close inadequate landfills, but more capacity hadn't come on line yet. In 1989, the Minnesota Legislature passed legislation that set recycling goals and provided funding. Today, Minnesota has a recycling rate of 48 percent!
Energy conservation
Manufacturers that use recycled material as a feedstock require less energy from the electrical grid. Making a new aluminum can from old cans saves 95 percent of the energy that would be needed if a can maker started virgin bauxite ore. The story is much the same for plastic, steel, paper and glass.
Recycling in Minnesota conserved enough energy in 2000 to power more than 217,000 homes. Recycling also helped to hold down our greenhouse gas emissions, saved hundreds of thousands of tons of iron ore and coal and conserved more than 13 million trees in just one year.
Economic development
Recycling creates more jobs than waste disposal. Roughly 20,000 manufacturing jobs in Minnesota have been created through recycling. Minnesota's recycling also creates $64 million in tax revenue and adds $2.98 billion to the state economy.* Your recycling gets made into products you buy every day: newsprint; corrugated cardboard packaging: boxes; plastic lumber; aluminum cans; and polyester carpet, to name a few.
Thousands of Minnesota businesses have also figured out how to cut their costs by recycling. Every business pays a 17 percent solid waste management tax on its garbage bill (households pay 9.75 percent), but they don't have to pay the tax on their recycling. If you do the math, your business will find a way to save money by recycling. Households may not see such big savings, but you are probably already paying for recycling service on your property tax, garbage bill, or utility statement anyway, so you should take advantage of the service and get a smaller garbage container.
If we could increase our recycling efforts and capture the 1.3 million tons of recyclable material being landfilled each year; we could save $200 million in disposal costs and generate an additional $312 million in revenue!*
*www.recyclemoreminnesota.org
