Yellow Medicine County Recycling Guidelines

Proper Separation of Recyclables. 

Place the following items inside your recycling bin

and at the curb by 6:00 a.m.

Please discard items not recyclable as trash.

RECYCLING CONTAINER:  Place recyclable items in paper grocery bags, using a separate bag for each type of item.

ALUMINUM AND TIN CANS:  Includes small scrap pieces of clean aluminum.  Labels may remain on cans.

CORRUGATED CARDBOARD:  Not accepted on recycling route.     May be brought to our recycling facility.

GLASS:  Please rinse.  Separate brown, clear, and green glass.  Labels may remain on glass. 

  Unacceptable:  Light bulbs, mirrors, windows, dishes, drinking glasses.  NO BROKEN GLASS!

PLASTIC:  Please rinse.  Labels may remain on containers.  Acceptable items have #1 or #2 in the recycling triangles marked on the container.

  Unacceptable:  Hard plastic, plastic bags, Cool Whip or margarine tubs, hoses, caps, pipe, toys, etc.

NEWSPAPER:  Bag or tie separately.  May include advertising inserts.  Loose newsprint will not be accepted.

MAGAZINES AND CATALOGS:  Bag, bundle or box separate from newspaper.  All glossy magazines or catalogs are acceptable except READER'S DIGEST and TV GUIDE.

PAPERBOARD AND MIXED RESIDENTIAL MAIL:  Paperboard boxes (such as cereal, snack, and tissue boxes) must be flattened.  Mixed residential mail (except newspaper and magazines/catalogs) is acceptable in separate bags or bundles.

* PLEASE DISCARD THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WITH TRASH! 

THESE ITEMS ARE NOT RECYCLABLE! *

Plastic lids and wide mouth containers (such as ice cream pails, margarine tubs, etc.) 

Styrofoam containers. 

Reader's Digest and TV Guides. 

Waxed or food contaminated paper. 

Drinking glasses, window panes, light bulbs and broken glass. 

Paper tissues and paper towels. 

Aerosol cans and cigarette butts.

Our recycling facility is open Monday’s & Wednesday’s from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. and accepts corrugated cardboard in addition to all the recyclable materials listed above. 

The facility is located at:   300 Winter Drive, Granite Falls

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