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Garbage and Recycling Collection Service
2 Sort Recycling Guide
For all single family and duplex households in the City of Mankato that receive a monthly water bill, garbage and recycling collection includes:
Garbage and recycling is picked up Monday through Friday in Mankato. Garbage and recycling is picked up on the same day. To find out what day your garbage/recycling is picked up, either call (507) 387-8672 or click here for a map (PDF).
Holidays
- New Year's Day
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Christmas Day
Holiday Schedule - If your collection day falls on or the day after one of these holidays throughout the week, residential garbage and recycling pickup will be one day later, and the schedule will resume as normal the following week.
Sample holiday schedule for residential garbage and recyclables. If the holiday falls on Monday:
--Monday's garbage and recyclables are collected Tuesday
--Tuesday's garbage and recyclables are collected Wednesday
--Wednesday's garbage and recyclables are collected Thursday
--Thursday's garbage and recyclables are collected Friday
--Friday's garbage and recycleables are collected Saturday.
Where to place your cart and recycling for collection
- If you reside in an area with "on street parking," it will be necessary to place your cart at the entry way of your driveway.
- Please do not place the cart within three feet of telephone poles, garages, street signs, trees, recycle bins or vehicles.
- Your collection point for your recycle bin will be the same area that your cart is located. Please remember to set your cart and recycle bin apart by a minimum of three feet.
What to do if you have more garbage than fits in your cart
Additional garbage bags can be put out by purchasing tags at any of the local grocery stores. The price of the tag covers the cost of disposing one bag of garbage. Tags cost $2 each. Place one tag on each 30-gallon garbage bag you set out.
Recycling–there is less separation
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Put non-paper in one recycle container or bag (examples: aluminum, tin cans, plastic, glass).
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Put paper in another recycle container or bag (examples: newspaper, magazines, paperboard such as egg cartons and boxes such as cereal, cracker, cookie, shoe and cake).
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Corrugated cardboard should be flattened into three-foot pieces and set next to the recycle bin.
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No Limit. There is no limit on the amount of recycling Mankato residents put curbside each week for pickup.
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Reminder–please make sure at least one of the recycle containers is a green City of Mankato recycle bin because this is an important communication tool that you are a customer of Mankato's curbside recycling program.
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