Curbside Organics Recycling Coming in April to Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Crystal, and New Hope
The cities of Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Crystal, and New Hope will join others in the northwest suburbs to offer curbside organics recycling collection every week starting later this spring, according to Tim Pratt with the Hennepin Recycling Group. Pratt said customers can sign up through either the City of Brooklyn Park or through the HRG website (Brooklyn Center, Crystal, and New Hope) for a organics recycling bin to be delivered the week of March 24, and collection will begin the following week.
“It’s pretty easy, once you get the system set up in your kitchen, to get the material diverted,” said Pratt. “You put it in a cart just like you would with your garbage and recycling, and we go around with the same trucks with the arm and pick it up and take it to the composting facility.”
Pratt said anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of the garbage we throw into landfills could be organic material that could be recycled.
“When you think back to the early 90s when we starting to set up the recycling programs for the bottles, the cans, and the papers, it took a behavior change,” Pratt said. “We were used to just throwing everything in the garbage and not thinking about it..it’s the same thing with the organics: change a little bit of thinking, change a bit about how you go about things.”
