Recycling Services

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What Can Be Recycled?

To ensure your items are processed correctly and safely, please follow these guidelines. Items do not need to be crushed, but please rinse all food and beverage containers clean.

Glass Bottles & Jars: Clear, green, and brown bottles and food jars (remove lids and caps).
Plastics: All plastic containers numbered 1 through 7 with a neck (remove pumps and metal handles).
Metal & Aluminum: Tin cans, aluminum beverage cans, and clean metal food containers.
Paper & Cardboard: Corrugated cardboard, newspapers, magazines, catalogs (under 1” thick), and mixed office mail.

Why Choose Waste Partners?

50 Years of Experience: Our team has over 50 years of combined experience working with commercial, industrial, and multi-family buildings.
Dedicated Local Staff: Our professional, specialized staff is always available to assist you locally, ensuring your operations are never interrupted.
Free Container Upgrades: We make sure you have the exact equipment you need by offering free container upgrades when your waste needs change.
Flexible and Timely Pickups: No rigid schedules—we work around your business hours and adjust our pickup frequency to match your workflow.

Convenient Residential & Commercial Recycling Services

Doing your part for the environment should be simple and seamless. At Waste Partners Inc., we make recycling easy by providing convenient curbside collection for homes and custom recycling programs for businesses throughout the Lakes Area.

Our reliable single-stream recycling systems mean less sorting for you, keeping more recyclable materials out of our local landfills and protecting our beautiful lake communities.

Curbside Residential Recycling

We offer convenient, scheduled curbside collection of recyclables in many neighborhoods across Crow Wing and Cass Counties. In select communities, we supply large, easy-to-manage single-stream recycling carts, allowing you to place all your acceptable recyclables into a single container with no advanced sorting required.

Rural Drop Site Services

For our neighbors living outside our standard curbside service routes, we proudly maintain and service a vast majority of both the Crow Wing County and Cass County recycling drop-off sites, ensuring everyone in our rural communities has a place to recycle.

Commercial Recycling Programs

Boost your business's sustainability and lower your overhead. We offer custom commercial recycling options that often generate direct savings on your monthly bill by removing heavy recyclables—like corrugated cardboard and paper—from your general waste stream.

Proudly Serving Your Neighborhood

Backus
Baxter
Brainerd
Breezy Point
Cross Lake
East Gull Lake

Fifty Lakes
Hackensack
Ironton
Jenkins
Lake Shore
Manhattan Beach

Merrifield
Nisswa
Pequot Lakes
Pillager
Pine River
Walker

Daryn Steinert

The best!

Kaydi Johnson

Best garbage removal service for the money. Always doing perfect work and easy to stop service if you will be gone for a week or two on vacation. Personal service and a real person answers the phone when you call. Highly recommend!

J D

Best trash service in the area, Eric and his team are great to work with.

Brooke Jean

Wow, as first time home owners, I never realized how good a garbage company this one was until we just moved outside of Brainerd! This company is kind, had great prices, wonderful communication, and they even would take the extra bags on the side of the can if we were a little over without charging an arm and a leg. They also sold the largest sizes for both garbage and recycling which fit our needs with multiple little kids. Calling their main office was easy and you can speak to an actual person on the phone, which makes things SO much more convenient and just personable / professional in my opinion in general when trying to set something up/ make a payment, ect.! Recommending them to all our family and friends who still live in the area. Now that we have a different garbage company set up with our new home, we miss this old one!

Daryn Steinert

Great company, good pricing! If you need anything they’ll take care of it.

Faisal Mirza

I had a wonderful experience delivering a load to this place. All employees that I encounter were so professional, nice and helpful. They helped me pack up my tools, offer me bathroom and water. I believe this company is blessed by great employees. it’s most likely because of the mgt and the company who they work for and proud of it. Thank you.

C Shell

Great service! Pricing is far better than other companies.

Tori

I can't say enough about how great they are for garbage service! Always so quick to respond, and anytime there's an issue or I need curbside pickup for larger items, they're so flexible. As a happy customer of 6 years, I can't recommend them enough! A++ service