Recycle. Ask the store where you bought a new mattress or box spring if they will take the old mattresses for recycling. Pick Up Service: There is a pick up option for mattresses in some areas of the county. For more information, visit Second Chance Recycling.
Recycle. Ask the store where you bought a new mattress or box spring if they will take the old mattresses for recycling. Pick Up Service: There is a pick up option for mattresses in some areas of the county. For more information, visit Second Chance Recycling.
Items you can recycle include paper and cardboard, cartons, glass bottles and jars, metal cans, and plastic bottles, jugs, and containers.
Charities like Habitat for Humanity, homeless shelters, or furniture banks might accept it. Be sure to call ahead and confirm if they'll take mattresses. Many cities have recycling facilities or programs that break down mattresses into reusable materials like foam, steel, and wood.
Recycle unused paint at a PaintCare retail drop-off site near you. Products must be in original containers with a label and secure lid. Containers must be no larger than 5 gallons. Call retailers first for requirements.
The county has defined zero waste as preventing 90% or more of all discarded materials from being landfilled or incinerated. The actions in the Hennepin County Zero Waste Plan are designed to collectively move the county as close as possible to the goal of zero waste.
Zero waste provides guidelines for continually working towards eliminating waste. ing to the Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA), zero waste is the complete recovery of a product's resources "with no discharges to land, water, or air that threaten the environment or human health."
Zero Waste is a philosophy and design framework that promotes not only reuse, recycling, and conservation programs, but also, and more importantly, emphasizes sustainability by considering the entire life-cycle of products, processes, and systems.
The goal of zero waste is to divert up to 90% of the material sent to landfills through means of reducing, recycling, composting, reusing, repurposing, repairing, and donating.
Hennepin County Toward Zero Death (TZD) Action Plan Now through fall 2024, we will develop an action plan to reduce fatal and serious injury crashes for anyone in the right of way of county-owned roads, whether they are walking, riding, rolling, using transit or driving on county-owned roadways.