Aspen. The clean, green way.

Please have your trash and recycling carts available by 7 a.m. on your pickup day. Pickup times may vary, so it is important to have your cart out on time.

Single Sort Recycling
Only in Bloomington and Richfield

For information on recycling pickup in other cities contact your city offices.
Reduce, reuse and recycle information

In Bloomington and Richfield, Aspen collects recycling every other week on your trash service day.

You are assigned a pickup week — GREEN or GRAY — depending on where you live.

In Bloomington:
North of 98th Street, or North of Lindstrom Drive — GREEN week.
South of 98th Street, or South of Lindstrom Drive — GRAY week.

In Richfield:
North of 70th Street — GREEN week.
South of 70th Street —GRAY week.

See the calendar on the right side of this page for your pickup days.

Aspen offers recycling pickup as part of our trash collection service to customers in the cities of Bloomington and Richfield. Aspen provides a 65 gallon container for single sort recycling in addition to a 35, 65 or 95 gallon container for trash.

Single Sort Recycling means you can put all your recylable items together in the same container for pickup. Do not bag, except for shredded paper which should be put in closed paper bags.

Place these items
together in
your cart

Containers
Aluminum, steel, tin cans
Beer, wine, liquor bottles
Food jars
Glass jars
Narrow neck plastic bottles and jugs, milk & water jugs
(Regardless of number on bottom)
Pie tins

Paper
Newspapers and inserts
Mail, office & school paper
Magazines, catalogs
Brown grocery bags
Phone books
Shredded paper
(In closed paper bags)
Cereal, cracker, pasta boxes
Cardboard, flattened
Shoe boxes, gift boxes
Pop and beer boxes
Electronics boxes

DO NOT INCLUDE
Auto, mirror or tinted glass
Blueprints, transparencies
Carbon paper
Carpeting
Clothing
Hazardous waste or containers
Crystal glassware
Disposable diapers
Egg carton boxes
Foil containers
Light bulbs
Metal or steel objects such as nails, wire, hangers or case strapping
Paper towels, napkins, tissue
Pet-soiled paper
Photos, photographic paper
Plastic bags
Pyrex, heat-resistant ovenware
Rubber-type materials, latex
Self-adhesive labels
Styrofoam
Toys
Wax coated boxes

Important
Rinse food from containers
Remove caps and lids (No need to remove labels)
Flatten cardboard & boxes

Extra cardboard boxes can be flattened and tied into bundles no more than 3 ft. long by 3 ft. wide by 1 ft. tall and placed next to your cart.

QUESTIONS: CALL ASPEN AT 612-884-8008

Living Green

The best place to dispose of unwanted household waste may not be your trashcan. At Aspen, we believe it’s important to use alternatives to disposing of waste in the trash. Use this listing to find opportunities to reuse and recycle in the Twin Cities metro area.

Hennepin County Environmental Services
Check "Popular Links" for household and hazardous waste recycling

St. Paul and Ramsey County
How to reduce, reuse, recycle

Go-to Guide
for waste & recycling

What, Why, Where & How of Recycling

Free Market
Give away or get free stuff

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Reduce waste, conserve resources

Recycle Calendar 2012

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Download 2012 Recycling Calendar
HOLIDAY SCHEDULE