Our Plastic Recycling Program provides meaningful work for 28 clients while diverting nearly 1 million pounds of plastic from local incinerators and landfills every year. We contract with businesses for regular pick-ups and accept plastic from the public at our 3210 location. For more information about plastic recycling, please contact Marissa Jenson at (651) 789-6218 or marissaj@merrickinc.org. You may also complete our Plastic Recycling Form.
All plastic must be clean, dry, and free of food residue.
We accept all colors of:
Pallet wrap & stretch film
Case overwrap
Product wrap
Garbage bags/liners
Toilet paper/paper towel/water bottle wrapping
Salt bags
Ice bags
Bubble wrap & packaging air pillows
Non-paper bubble mailers & other plastic mailers
Grocery/retail bags
Ziploc & other resealable food storage bags
Bread bags
Cereal/pasta bags
Dry cleaning bags
Newspaper sleeves
Produce bags
Carpet overwrap
Furniture foam wrap
Heat sheets
Mattress bags
Wood pellet bags
We can’t accept:
Wet material
Hard plastic (e.g. water bottles)
Pallet strapping
Freight/shipping air sacs
Material containing nylon (sometimes looks like a grid in the plastic-common in pet food bags & freight/shipping air sacs)
Please remember that if material doesn’t stretch and you cannot poke your finger through it, we cannot recycle it. We do not accept hard or crinkly material. A majority of what we recycle is #2 and #4 material.