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
   
• Plastic bottles and containers #1, #2 and #5 
   
• 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.