Recycling

2023 Recycling Calendar

Recycling Pickup is every other week

Your Recycling pickup day is the same as your refuse/garbage pickup day and picked up every other week.

• All City refuse plans include recycling.
• All recyclables and refuse must be placed street-side by 7 a.m.
• Please keep the recycling curbie (yellow lid) and garbage curbie at least three feet apart.
• There’s no need to separate when you recycle. You simply put all your recyclable materials into the curbie with the yellow lid.

Acceptable Items to be Recycled include:

Plastic #1, 2, 4 & 5 Plastic Food & Beverage Containers

Please remove and discard all pumps, and metal handles. Empty and rinse. Plastic bottles & containers can be crushed to save space.  Don’t forget to recycle your plastic milk & juice containers.  

Food & Beverage Glass Bottles/Jars

Rinse. DO NOT break bottles and jars.  

Metal Beverage and Food Cans

Aluminum and Metal Containers, empty and rinse, no need to remove labels or crush. Empty paint cans are also accepted.

Paper and Cardboard

Paper from newspapers, magazines, junk mail, greeting cards, dry non-coated food paper box board, and small flat pieces of corrugated cardboard box material are all accepted.  

Unacceptable Items that Cannot by Recycled:

Plastic bags, plastic 4 or 6 pack holders, candy wrappers
Ceramics, pyrex, window glass, drinking glasses, light bulbs, Christmas lights, mirrors
Aerosol cans, oil, antifreeze or fuel containers, auto glass
Milk cartons, egg cartons, paper towel or toilet paper rolls, gift paper, tissue paper, shredded paper
Wallpaper, slides or negatives, razors, needles or sharp, wood, yard waste
Foam products, clothing, blankets, flower pots, furniture
None of the above items can be accepted.

Too much recycling?

There are two drop off recycling sites in Saint Peter.

Background Information:
Effective December 2019 collections of recyclable materials returned to every other week.

In 2019 substantial changes in the recycling market took place in Minnesota, and within the United States and internationally. Geopolitical issues have impacted how much, where, and what can be produced with recycled materials. These changes are now impacting our current system here within Saint Peter.

Previously recyclable materials may have had some value to the recyclers or they would at least break even which meant recyclers would take the material without charge. That economic position for the marketplace has ended. This change is being made to help us keep your current recycling rate.