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Plastic - Bags
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Many grocery stores, co-ops and retailers, including Cub, Festival, County Market, Target, Best Buy and Walmart, accept clean, dry plastic bags for recycling.  Look for kiosks or recycling bins in the store.  Clean plastic bags such as bread bags, salt bags (without rigid handles), grocery and other retail store bags, and newspaper bags may be recycled.  Other plastic film items that are accepted include: stretch wrap and shrink film, wrappers from paper products (napkins, paper towels, etc), and dry cleaners bags.  

Preparation: 

  • Remove all food residue (shake out crumbs), strings or rigid, plastic handles. 
  • Bags must be clean and dry.

Do not recycle these items: 

  • Bags with strings or rigid plastic handles (or cut them off) 
  • Bubble wrap
  • Items with food residue   
  • Soil or mulch bags 
  • Trash bags, including lawn and leaf bags 
  • Zipper type bags (or cut off zipper)

Why Recycle plastic bags?
Because it provides a valuable feedstock to manufacture plastic lumber. 

  • Trex® Company recycles approximately 1.3 billion recycled plastic bags each year.  About half of all recycled grocery bags are used to manufacture Trex® decking. 
  • Each Trex® decking board (16 feet long, 2 x 6 inches) uses approximately 2,250 plastic bags.

What are plastic bags made into?
Plastic bags collected through the It's in the Bag. Program are sorted in the metro area, baled, then sent to the Trex® Company in Winchester, Virginia.  Trex® processes the bags to create plastic lumber used in backyard patios and decks.  Trex® decking and railing is made from approximately 50 percent recycled plastic film and 50 percent reclaimed wood waste, from used wooden pallets, woodworking operations and other materials that would otherwise go to a landfill.

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Anoka County staff obtained information for this resource by researching various directories, along with telephone verification. It is not an endorsement of the businesses listed, nor does it imply that the businesses are in compliance with applicable laws. Any omissions or inaccuracies are unintentional. For additional listings, we recommend the local telephone directory. ALWAYS CALL FIRST TO VERIFY INFORMATION BECAUSE POLICIES FREQUENTLY CHANGE.
 
This resource is intended for households only. The information does not pertain to wastes from businesses or organizations.

 
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NameLocation & Contact Info
Andover Recycling CenterAddress: 15200 Tower Dr, Andover, MN  55304
Phone: 763-767-5175
Website: www.ci.andover.mn.us
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Coon Rapids Recycling CenterAddress: 1831 111th Ave NW, Coon Rapids, MN  55433
Phone: 763-767-6485
Website: www.ci.coon-rapids.mn.us
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