Plastic Recycling
Merrick’s Plastic Recycling Program provides meaningful employment 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 program site. 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)
- Biodegradable/compostable bags or film packaging
- Adhesives
- Sticker backing
- Organic material (including paper & cardboard)
- Frozen food bags
- Pre-washed salad mix bags
- Six-pack rings
- Aluminum-lined and/or metallic-looking packaging (e.g. Chip bags & candy bar wrappers)
- Rubber
- Metal
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.