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Recycling

Recycling

If you are an RVS Customer living in the city limits of our Brown County area and would like a Recycling Cart, please call our office to request one.

Rural brown county residents are asked to haul their recycling to a local recycling drop box

Sleepy Eye – Schutz Family Foods Parking Lot

Springfield – Springfield Market Parking Lot

New Ulm – Hy-Vee and Cashwise Parking Lots

Hanska – Near City Shop

Our co-mingle recycling gets shipped to Dem-Con Materials Recovery Facility in Shakopee, MN.  This is a 70,000 sq. ft. of state-of-the-art processing facility located conveniently off HWY 169.  Search for Dem-Con on youtube for some educational videos on recycling!!

 

Acceptable Recycling Products


  • All white and colored writing paper, computer paper, phone books, magazines, and newspapers including inserts, junk mail
  • Corrugated cardboard, including cereal, chip and cracker boxes
  • DO NOT bundle newspapers in anything other than brown paper bags, NO PLASTIC BAGS
  • Tin and aluminum cans: food and pet food cans (labels can be left on), soda and beer cans, clean aluminum foil and foil pans
  • Glass: clear, green, brown or blue food and beverage containers
  • Wine, beer, other alcohol, soda and salad dressing bottles
  • Plastic: #1-#7 plastics except garden planters. Two liter bottles, plastic milk jugs and bleach bottles

 

Prohibited Items for Recycling

  • No garbage or electronics
  • No hazardous waste (paint cans, aerosol cans, syringes)
  • No scrap metal including wire hangers
  • No hot or cold ashes
  • No concrete, rocks, gravel or wood
  • No snack food bags (like chips or popcorn bags)
  • No fast food containers
  • No styrofoam, foam cups, foam containers or styrofoam peanuts
  • No bubblewrap
  • No plastic toys or furniture
  • No plastic bags (plastic wrap, dry cleaning bags, softer salt bags)
  • No string, twine or cotton balls
  • No paper towels, napkins or tissues
  • No baby diapers
  • No garden product containers such as pesticide containers
  • No coffee filters or tea bags
  • No waxed paper or waxed anything such as milk containers, drinking boxes, frozen food boxes
  • No gum or candy wrappers
  • No bathroom waste paper
  • No photos, slides or transparencies

Common Recycling Questions

  • If you recyclables are in a plastic bag, it increases the chance that they end up in the trash because recycling process cannot process plastic bags.
  • Plastic bags are consider a “contaminant” that will be removed at the sorting facility costing time and money. Plastic bags can be dropped off at most local supermarkets for recycling.
  • Windows, mirrors, ceramic, kitchen dishes and drinking glasses are NOT recyclable
  • Hard cover books CANNOT be recycled.  The hard cover must be removed in order to recycle the pages.
  • Spiral bound notebooks must have the metal or plastic spiral removed.

Brown County Special Collection Days

2023 Upcoming Events Sponsored by Brown County Solid Waste & Recycling

  • May 3rd – Fluorescent Bulb Collection
    • Springfield – Springfield Market, 101 W Central St., 11 am to 2 pm
  • May 4th – Fluorescent Bulb Collection
    • New Ulm – Brown County Fairgrounds, 1201 N State St., 2 pm to 4:30 pm
  • June 8th – Household Hazardous Waste

    • New Ulm – Brown County Fairgrounds, 1201 N State St. 11 am to 4 pm
  • June 22nd – Household Hazardous Waste

    • Springfield – Brown County Highway Garage, 507 Burns Ave. S, 10 am to 12 pm
    • Sleepy Eye – Brown County REA Building, 24386 State Hwy 4, 2 pm to 5 pm
  • Sept. 14th – Household Hazardous Waste
    • New Ulm – Brown County Fairgrounds, 1201 N State St., 11 pm to 4 pm

***There are fees associated with the fluorescent bulb collections and e-waste events.

***Business waste will NOT be accepted at the household hazardous waste collection events.

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