Recycling Center Plus
Address: 305 Energy Parkway NE, Rochester, MN 55906
Phone: 507-328-7070
Facility hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Department office hours: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Email: pwservice@olmstedcounty.gov
Items accepted free of charge but must be pre-sorted:
- Aluminum cans
- Clear glass bottles and jars (no window glass, dishware, or ceramics)
- Colored glass bottles and jars: green, brown, and other colors (no window glass, dishware, or ceramics)
- Corrugated cardboard (clean only) - remove packaging materials
- White office paper
- Newspaper, magazines, flyers/pamphlets, colored paper
- Paperboard boxes (flattened - no freezer boxes), e.g., cereal & cracker boxes
- Plastics #1 and #2 (with a neck), and clean plastic #5 dairy containers
- Tin/steel food cans
- Clean scrap iron, aluminum, copper, brass and stainless steel
Items commonly accepted for a fee but are not limited to:
(Household quantities)
- Appliances (recycled)
- Bikes
- Brush/tree waste (incidental quantities)
- Carpeting
- Computer systems (recycled)
- Construction and demolition materials (residential quantities)
- Drywall
- Furniture
- Garbage
- Grills
- Lawn mowers (empty of fluids)
- Mattresses (8 or fewer per day)
- TVs (recycled)
- Tires (automotive) 8 or fewer per day
Large loads of tires (9 or more) can be brought to the Kalmar Landfill for a fee of $435 per ton. Call 507-328-7070 in advance.