Cities to Help With Bulky Waste and Special Materials Recycling, Pick-Up In April
With spring pretty much arriving ahead of schedule, it’s time for spring cleaning in and around your home. Hennepin Recycling Group leaders once again offer a couple of ways to help you de-clutter and get rid of junk around your home.
Bulky Waste Curbside Clean-Up
The first is the annual Bulky Waste Curbside Clean-up, where crews will go out across the cities of Crystal and New Hope during the first two weeks of April to pick-up larger items residents put out by the street.
Hennepin Recycling Group will offer bulky waste curbside clean-up in April for residents in Crystal and New Hope.
“It’s especially designed for bulkier or oversized items like mattresses or large pieces of furniture. We’ll also take a certain amount of smaller items, just trash, general junk items. We want to get these things out of people’s homes. We don’t want them building up,” said City of Brooklyn Park Recycling and Support Services Manager Tim Pratt, who also manages the multi-jurisdictional Hennepin Recycling Group.
There are some limits to what you can put out and what crews are able to take away from the curbside, said Pratt. He encourages anyone with questions to consult the HRG website for more information, and on that site you can also use an interactive map to find out which day is your day for pick-up.
“With the bigger items, especially if you’re older or you have mobility issues, or don’t have a vehicle to transport them, it can be kind of pricey, especially, to have a company come to you and pick that stuff up,” he said.
HRG coordinates annual pick-up in the spring for Crystal and New Hope (even years) along with Brooklyn Center (odd years) in the spring and Brooklyn Park in the fall.
“We have to divide it up because there’s so many households and only so many of the older trucks where you can put stuff in the back of them,” said Pratt.
Special Materials Drop-Off in Brooklyn Park
On April 27, HRG will once again host its one-day Special Materials Drop-Off in Brooklyn Park for residents, including also those who live in Brooklyn Center, Crystal, and New Hope.
Special Matrials Drop-Off will be Saturday, April 27 in Brooklyn Park for residents of Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Crystal, and New Hope.
Pratt said representatives from a variety of recyling and collection companies will be on-hand at the Brooklyn Park Operations and Maintenance Facility (8300 Noble Avenue) from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. that day to collect “everything that’s recyclable doesn’t necessarily go in your (residential) cart.”
For more information on the event, click here.
