MPRB “Rolls Out” New Recycling Program and Revamped Park Waste Management System

Via a September 12 Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board e-newsletter:

Beginning this week, visitors to Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board neighborhood and regional parks will notice new trash and recycling receptacles.
 
Gone are the decades-old round green (waste) and blue (recycling) cans. In their place, park patrons will see dark gray plastic carts for waste and blue carts for one-sort recycling. Minneapolis residents will be especially familiar with the new carts, as they are the same as are used by Minneapolis residents at home.

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"Sustainability is one of the Park Board's core values, and park patrons have always been good about recycling when the option was available," said Liz Wielinski Commissioner District 1 and Park Board of Commissioners President. "This just makes recycling an even easier choice."
 
All waste carts will be paired with a recycling cart. More carts will be placed in heavily used areas such as playgrounds, basketball courts, wading pools to accommodate higher usage. (The old metal waste and recycling containers are expected to be removed by mid-October.)
 
As part of the City of Minneapolis solid waste and recycling program, park staff will move neighborhood park waste and recycling carts to the curb on specified pick-up days. Just as for Minneapolis residents, most nonhazardous items except for clothes, food, waxed coated cups, Styrofoam and yard waste can go into the single-sort recycling bins. Everything else from plastic to metal to glass is recyclable.

Each year, more than 21 million visits are made to the nationally acclaimed Minneapolis park system, comprised of 251 park properties totaling nearly 6,800 acres of land and water.

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