Wednesday, October 19, 2011

#1 - #7 Plastic Recycling

You can now recycle #1 - #7 plastic bottles and containers in your recycling cart in Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Crystal, and New Hope. This includes items such as butter tubs, yogurt cups, medicine bottles, flower pots, fruit/deli containers and much more, but NO plastic bags and NO Styrofoam. Plastic bags often clog and break down the sorting equipment at the recycling facility we contract with, other programs may take plastic bags, but for now we are not able to accept them. Plastic bags may be recycled at many grocery/retail stores and the Hennepin County Recycling Center at 8100 Jefferson Hwy. in Brooklyn Park.