Darling Amalgamated Retail Emporium Presents: Community Recycling Weekends
Darling Amalgamated Retail Emporium Has Been Partnering With TerraCycle® Since Day 1
What is TerraCycle®?
TerraCycle® is a social enterprise focusing on Eliminating the Idea of Waste®. In 20 countries, they’ve been tackling the issue from many angles and have found that everything we touch can be recycled. They collect typically non-recyclable items through national, first-of-their-kind recycling platforms.
Leading companies work with TerraCycle® to take hard-to-recycle materials from their programs, such as ocean plastic, and turn them into new products. With your help, they’ve diverted millions of pounds of valuable resources from landfills all over the world, and they’re just getting started!
Darling Amalgamated Retail Emporium has been collecting some of these hard-to-recycle materials, on a small scale, since we opened in July 2018. Starting September 14, 2019, and every two weeks thereafter, DARE will have collection bins in front of the store from noon-4pm Saturday & Sunday.
Although reuse is always best, we are committed to helping our community keep waste out of landfills by collecting some of these traditionally hard-to-recycle items to have them made into something new! Below you can find the types of items DARE collects for recycling through the TerraCycle® Program, and the list of collection dates through the end of 2019. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!
Let’s do this! Together!
Please only bring clean & dry recyclables listed for collection.
Oral Care accept waste: Toothpaste tubes and caps, toothbrushes, toothpaste cartons, toothbrush outer packaging, and floss containers.
Razor accepted waste: All brands of blades & razor (systems & disposable units, and replaceable-blade cartridge units), rigid plastic packaging, and flexible plastic bag packaging.
Personal Care accepted waste: Hair care packaging such as shampoo caps, conditioner caps, hair gel tubes and caps, hair spray triggers, and hair paste caps.
Skin care packaging such as lip balm tubes and caps, soap dispensers and tubes, body wash caps, lotion dispensers and caps. Cosmetics packaging such as lipstick cases, lip gloss tubes, mascara tubes, eyeshadow cases, bronzer cases, foundation packaging, powder cases, eyeliner cases, eyeliner pencils, eyeshadow tubes, concealer tubes, concealer sticks, and lip liner pencils.
Cereal Bag accepted waste: (program ends 12/31/19) Plastic cereal bags and box liners.
Cigarette accepted waste: Extinguished cigarettes, cigarette filters, loose tobacco pouches, outer plastic packaging, inner foil packaging, rolling paper, and ash.
NEW: All-In-One Zero Waste Box: Because of the large fee for recycling these combined waste streams ($287), we are asking for donations to help defray the cost of this recycling option. The cool thing about this box is that all categories of waste are accepted in this box without the need to sort or separate. Accepted waste: Plastic packaging, textiles and fabrics, coffee capsules, laminated paper packaging, art supplies, disposable cutlery, personal care accessories, athletic equipment, electronic waste and much more.
For recycling not listed above, Hennepin County has two year-round drop-off facilities where residents can get rid of recycling, electronics, appliances and household hazardous wastes. More information can be found here.
Locations:
Brooklyn Park
Hennepin County Recycling Center and Transfer Station
8100 Jefferson Highway, Brooklyn Park, MN 55445
Bloomington
South Hennepin Recycling and Problem Waste Drop-Off Center
1400 West 96th Street, Bloomington, MN 55431
