Welcome to Eureka Recycling!

We are a zero-waste organization located in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul with a wide range of initiatives focusing on reuse, recycling, composting, waste reduction, producer responsibility, and more.

Get the "Dirt" on Zero-Waste Composting

Eureka's New Report

Eureka Recycling released its newest report Zero-Waste Composting: How Food Scraps Can Help Conquer Climate Change and Disease, which is the first report of its kind to look at the human costs of not composting. The report looks at financial costs and quantifies human and environmental costs, providing a way for cities and communities to calculate the true potential of composting. It looks at all aspects of zero-waste composting for the greatest benefit to the environment and our community, including:

preventing wasted food
composting at home in backyards
collecting what is left
processing food scraps and nonrecyclable paper (like egg cartons and paper towels) into soil
how to use the finished compost

Learn more.

Moldy bread? Soggy carrots? Not in my fridge!

In conjunction with the release of Zero-Waste Composting, Eureka Recycling launched a new website www.MakeDirtNotWaste.org with free prevention tools. Download a meal planner, shopping tools, a food storage guide, and more. Watch helpful videos as well as join an online conversation to connect with others striving to reduce food waste and save money. Start preventing wasted food today in your kitchen!

2013-2014 Guide to Recycling is here!

Eureka Recycling is proud to be the nonprofit recycler for Arden Hills, Lauderdale, Roseville, Saint Paul, and St. Louis Park. Recycling from White Bear Lake, Lakeland, and Lakeland Shores, and from residents serviced by Troje's and Maroney's is also brought to our facility.

Look for your guide in the mail in the coming days.

For your recycling collection day, or to learn how to get a recycling bin, please call the Zero-Waste Hotline (651) 222-SORT (7678) or follow the link to your city above.

Download your Guide to Recycling:

For Saint Paul residents

For Roseville Residents

For Arden Hills and Lauderdale residents

The Guide to Recycling in translation:

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Saint Paul’s Compost to Zero Waste Plan

Let’s Get It in the Budget and Get It Passed!

Last year, Eureka proposed a zero-waste plan for Saint Paul to bring us closer to zero waste. This plan included comprehensive composting--prevention education along with curbside collection--as well as switching to single-stream, and adding more plastics to Saint Paul's recycling program.

Update:

The City of Saint Paul wanted to conduct a public process to hear from residents before making decisions for the 2014 budget. This public process is now complete and the City is expected to release its recommendation soon. If you missed the opportunity to weigh in, contact Eureka so your input can be heard.

Learn more, stay informed, & take action now!

“100 million tons of unlovable plastic: The container-bottom numbers game”

Eureka Recycling currently collects and recycles plastic bottles. Recently, some local recycling programs, including Minneapolis and Hennepin County, have started collecting more types of plastics. In some communities, they are even collecting all plastics. But, recycling isn’t just collection. Are all those plastics really being recycled? Or are they going into the trash somewhere else?

Learn more about plastics. Do you have questions about plastics recycling? Are you frustrated or overwhelmed by so many plastic products and all that plastic packaging? Eureka Recycling can help you sift through this complicated issue! Susan Hubbard, Eureka Recycling’s former CSO, looks at these questions and more in this article for the Twin Cities Daily Planet.

Support Eureka Recycling's work

We are grateful to the hundreds of generous donors—individuals and organizations—who provide direct financial support for Eureka Recycling's leading-edge work in zero waste. Our recycling operations are self-sustaining. However, Eureka Recycling raises money in order to break new ground on needed zero-waste initiatives. Learn how you can donate today!

How to Get Really, Really Good Stuff

Stuff: we all have it. We all need it (some of it, anyway). But what about the stuff we don’t want or need anymore? What do we do with it? Right now, consumers and governments are given the responsibility of dealing with it—with no say in how products are made or designed. Your best efforts (and ours) to recycle and compost everything we can will not stop our trash cans from filling up.

However, there are ways to change the way these products are designed and manufactured, and you have the chance to influence the process!

We can get to zero waste without sacrificing the stuff we really want and need. Find out how you can tell if the products and services you spend hard-earned money on are safe, non-toxic, healthy, and durable.

Meet Some Zero-Waste Heroes in Our Community

Zero-waste heroes Conrad-Wovcha Family Reducing the trash we create and getting to zero waste takes all of us: individuals, communities, and companies that make products and packaging. We know inspiring people who are taking action every day to get as close to zero waste as they can!

Are YOU a Zero-Waste Hero? Send us your story and photo!

Want to know a little more about Eureka Recycling?

Check out this video, produced for our Nonprofit Mission Award for Advocacy, received in 2006 from Minnesota Council of Nonprofits/MAP for Nonprofits!

Read this article from "The Line": Eureka: The offbeat recycling company that wants to go way beyond recycling (November 2010)

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