Recycling

The City of Moorhead Curbside Recycling Guide provides a list of accepted and unaccepted items for curbside collection. This includes items such as phone books, office paper, pizza boxes, cartons, and more.

Materials:

• No Glass. City of Moorhead residents should not put glass into blue recycling totes for curbside collection. 
  •  Glass can still be taken to glass-only dumpsters at the drop off site recycling locations:
    • Woodlawn Point at 418 Elm Street
    • Public Works Shop at 700 15 Ave N
    • Resource Recovery Center at 3322 15 Ave N 
  • Glass can also be placed in the regular gray garbage tote.
• No plastic bags, please! Plastic bags cannot be recycled through the City’s recycling program. Recycle plastics bags at local businesses such as Hornbacher's, Wal-Mart, and Target.
• Our Waste Disposal and Recycling Guide has more information about what/where materials can be recycled.

For residents with a blue recycling tote, your recycling is picked up every other week on the same day your garbage is collected. Recycling collection days are split geographically into A and B weeks.

• Find your recycling day (Monday through Friday) and week (A or B) on the Recycling Map. The calendar will help you find your recycling dates.
• You can also search for your collection schedule by entering your address under "Find Your Collection Schedule". 

Place your recycling tote on the curb before 5 am, 4-6 feet from any obstacles including garbage/yard waste totes, mailboxes, snowbanks, and vehicles.

Place items in the tote loosely and make sure all your items can fit into one container. If you have extra items, either wait until your next collection day or you can bring the materials to one of our 4 drop-off locations. 

Container Recognition

Recycling containers/dumpsters are arranged for apartments by the apartment property management/owner. If your apartment building does not have a recycling option, please contact your property management.

The recycling container can be identified as either a blue 300-gallon container or a blue dumpster located near the existing garbage dumpster. 

Accepted and Unaccepted Materials

The Clay County Resource Recovery Center has a list of accepted and unaccepted items. 

• No Glass. Glass can be taken to glass-only dumpsters at the drop site recycling locations.  
  • Woodlawn Point at 418 Elm Street
  • Public Works Shop at 700 15 Ave N
  • Resource Recovery Center at 3322 15 Ave N
  • Glass can also be placed with regular garbage.   
• No plastic bags, please!
  • Plastic bags cannot be recycled through the City’s recycling program. Please recycle plastics bags at businesses such as Hornbacher's, Wal-Mart, and Target.

Recycling Fee:

On your Moorhead Public Service bill, each resident is charged a recycling fee per month. This fee is charged to your account even if you do not recycle. The fee helps the City of Moorhead provide recycling dumpsters for drop off locations within the city. These locations are available to all Moorhead residents every day throughout the year.

Always use the recycling guide when using drop-off sites:

Recycling Guide

Recycling drop off bins are available at several locations in Moorhead:

• Woodlawn Point:
  418 Elm St S
• Public Works Facility:
  700 15 Ave N
• Ken's Sanitation (Cardboard only) West side of facility:
  2010 28th Ave S
• Resource Recovery Center:
  3322 15 Ave N

Recycling Location Map

For questions about recycling, contact Public Works at 218.299.5422 then select option 1.