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Yes, we pick up in Minnesota. Tell us where your locations are and we’ll build a route around your schedule.
Greene Recycling offers cardboard recycling in Minnesota for retailers, grocers, restaurants, warehouses, and manufacturers. We’ve recycled cardboard since 1995 and service more than 500 business locations nationwide. Minnesota isn’t one of our existing route states, so we start by building a route for you. Sign up, and we plan pickups around your addresses and your bale volume.
You get a schedule made for your locations, whether that’s one store in Brainerd or a chain spread across the Twin Cities suburbs.
We also keep things simple for store managers. They get one number to call, a set pickup day, and a team that knows the account. That’s what makes cardboard recycling in Minnesota stick after the first few months, when the novelty wears off and the boxes keep coming.
We can serve businesses anywhere in Minnesota. That includes Minneapolis and St. Paul, suburbs like Bloomington, Eagan, Plymouth, and Maple Grove, Rochester in the southeast, St. Cloud in central Minnesota, Mankato, Moorhead on the North Dakota line, and Duluth and the Iron Range up north. I-94, I-35, and I-90 tie those markets together, which helps us plan stops for multi-location accounts.
Smaller towns are part of the plan. Cardboard recycling in Minnesota should work in Bemidji as well as in Edina. See every state we cover on our Areas Served page.
Every Minnesota account has access to our full nationwide service lineup:
Which option fits depends on your space and volume. A convenience store in Duluth may only need a pickup every few weeks. A distribution center in Shakopee or Rogers may need a compactor that gets hauled often. We look at your site, recommend the simplest setup, and adjust as you grow.
Winter is part of business here. Snow, ice, and cold make outdoor cardboard storage a headache, and loose boxes in a snowy dumpster turn into a frozen, heavy mess. Baling indoors solves most of that. Bales stay dry and stacked until the truck arrives, and will-call service lets you move a pickup when a storm rolls through. Good cardboard recycling in Minnesota has to work in January, not just in July.
As a recycling broker, Greene Recycling sells your baled cardboard into the recycling market and passes value back to you. The more bales we pick up, the higher the rebate we can extend. Our recycling rebates page has details.
That’s why cardboard recycling in Minnesota can lower your waste bill instead of adding to it. Fewer trash pulls, cleaner back rooms, and a rebate on every load. A single store earns too, while chains with many locations build bale counts faster and see the rebate grow as volume rises.
Minnesota is home to major retailers, medical device makers, food processors, and a busy logistics sector around the Twin Cities. Each of those moves goods in corrugated boxes. We work with:
Clients like Walgreens and Crate & Barrel rely on us for consistent multi-state programs, and Minnesota stores get the same attention.
Corrugated cardboard is among the most recycled packaging materials in the country. The EPA’s paper and paperboard data shows how much collected fiber returns as new packaging. Recycling keeps boxes out of landfills and gives your business clear numbers for sustainability reporting. Many Minnesota companies already track those numbers closely, and bale counts make them easy to report.
The EPA’s sustainable materials management program focuses on keeping materials in use instead of burying them. Cardboard is an easy place to start, since it arrives sorted and leaves as a bale.
Here’s how it works. You share your locations, baler setup, and rough bale counts. We build a route for your Minnesota sites and confirm a pickup schedule. Then pickups begin, and so does your rebate program. Adding stores later is one call. Because we service all 50 states, Minnesota locations can share an account with stores in Wisconsin, Iowa, the Dakotas, or anywhere else, and you keep one contact for cardboard recycling in Minnesota and every other state.
Tell us where your Minnesota locations are, about how many bales you produce, and how often you want pickups. We’ll build your route and get started. Request a quote online or call 512-630-5108 to talk about cardboard recycling in Minnesota. Have questions? Our FAQ covers the basics.
Straight answers about service, schedules, and rebates.
Yes. Greene Recycling services businesses in all 50 states. In Minnesota we can serve locations in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington, Rochester, Duluth, St. Cloud, Mankato, and smaller towns statewide.
Call 512-630-5108 or request a quote. We review your addresses and bale volume, build a route for your Minnesota locations, and confirm a pickup schedule.
We plan for it. Baled cardboard stores indoors until pickup, and will-call service lets you shift a pickup when a storm hits.
Yes. As a recycling broker, the more bales we pick up, the higher the rebate we can extend.