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Walters Recycling and Refuse, Inc
Overview
Walters provides residential services to over 33,000 customers. We pride ourselves on the relationships we have established over the years with our customers. We strive to provide personalized service to each any every one of them!
Can-Be-Clean
“Walters is proud to offer a unique service. It’s free, environmentally friendly and you don’t have to do a thing! Walters will be sending a truck to your neighborhood to wash and sanitize your trash cart. All you have to do is leave your trash can at the curb on your regular trash day until at least 4:30 p.m. See the updated Can-Be-Clean schedule under "Current News and Info" on our home page to find out when we will be in your neighborhood.
Service Areas
Walters services 19 communities in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. They are:
Andover
Anoka
Arden Hills
Brooklyn Center
Brooklyn Park
Coon Rapids
Falcon Heights
Fridley
Lauderdale
Lexington
Lino Lakes
Mounds View
New Brighton
Ramsey
Roseville
St. Anthony
St. Paul
Shoreview
Spring Lake Park
Cart Sizes/Guidelines
38 Gallon: |
Household size: 1-2 people |
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| Cart holds 1-2 kitchen size garbage bags per week | |
| 68 Gallon: | Household size: 3-4 people |
| Cart holds 4-5 kitchen size garbage bags per week | |
| 94 Gallon: | Household size: 4 or more people |
| Cart holds 6-7 kitchen size garbage bags per week |
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Cart Placement
- • Have your cart(s) at the curb by 6:30 a.m. on your scheduled pick-up day.
- • Face the lid opening toward the street – handle toward the house.
- • Leave 3 feet between each cart or place the cart(s) on each side of your driveway.
- • During winter months, please keep your cart(s) clean of snow and other obstructions.
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Recycling
Walters provides Single Sort recycling services in Coon Rapids, Andover, St. Anthony, Lino Lakes, and Mounds View. Simply place all your recyclable items loosely together (Please do not bag these items) in your designated recycling cart. Service is provided every other week on your scheduled garbage collection day. See the 2012 Recycling Schedule.
The following items are acceptable curb-side recyclable materials:
- • Plastic bottles, containers and cartons labeled as 1 through 7. Prior to January of 2012, only containers labels as 1 and 2 were recycable.
- • Glass bottles and jars
- • Newspapers/Magazines/Mail/Phonebooks/Mixed paper
- • Clean scrap metal (smaller than 30 inches in any direction and less than 30 lbs.)
- • Boxboard (cereal, cake, chip and other packaging boxes)
- • Cardboard
- • Metal and aluminum cans
- • Plastic Bags
- • Pizza boxes and egg cartons
- • Styrofoam
- • Electronics or appliances
- • Auto glass or ceramics
- • Household hazardous waste
The following items are non-acceptable curb-side recyclable materials:
- Q. I frequently have extra recycling. Can I get a larger cart?
Yard Waste
Minnesota State Law prohibits putting yard waste into your garbage. By utilizing Walters’ Yard Waste Collection Service, your yard waste can be used to enrich gardens, improve soil conditions, be used as a soil additive, enhance soil texture, increase the ability of soil to absorb air and water, suppress weed growth, decrease erosion and reduce the need to apply chemical fertilizers.
Regular mowing and leaving the clippings on your grass provides the roots with the needed shade and equals 1 chemical fertilizing per season. A lawn with a good build-up of grass clippings and mulched leaves also requires less water. Since most of us in residential areas water our lawns with city water, we could save money on our water bills as well as the cost of chemical fertilizer.
Walters offers an optional Yard Waste Collection Services for a fee of $65 per calendar year. (Unfortunately, we are not able to provide Yard Waste Collection Services to those customers in St. Paul who live East of 35E and South of Sheppard Road at this time). Your yard waste will be picked up on your regularly scheduled garbage collection day starting in April and ending the last week in November, weather permitting. Branches must be 3 feet or less in length and tied in bundles no more than eighteen inches in diameter.
Included in the annual cost is the use of a 94 gallon yard waste cart (similar to your garbage cart). You may also use your own cart, compostable bags or various types of reusable bags. These items can be found at numerous hardware, grocery, and home improvement stores. 
In order to keep our yard waste program 100% compostable, plastic yard waste bags cannot be taken. Therefore, your drivers will have to debag any yard waste in plastic bags and leave the bags at the curb for you to dispose of. The cost per bag for this service is $3.00 in addition to the $65 annual fee.
To sign up for Yard Waste Collection Services, call our office at 763-780-8464.
Appliance Pick-up
Minnesota State Law requires that all appliances be reused or recycled. Walters can pick-up appliances from your home and properly recycle them for you!
For safety reasons, remove the door, lid, hinges or latches on any appliance with a door that closes automatically. Water softeners can be taken as garbage as long as there is no water or salt in the unit.
For a list of acceptable items, applicable charges, or to schedule a pick-up, call us at (763) 780-8464 or email us at service@waltersrecycling.com
Electronics Pick-up
Electronic products that contain a circuit board or cathode ray tube (CRT) must be recycled according to Minnesota State Law. Types of household electronics include: televisions, computers, DVD players, VCR’s, fax machines, computer keyboards, speakers, and printers.
For a list of acceptable items, applicable charges, or to schedule a pick-up, call us at (763) 780-8464 or email us at service@waltersrecycling.com
Furniture & Bulky Items
Just notify us a before your regular garbage collection day to let us know what items you would like us to pick-up. Simply place the item by your garbage cart by 6:30 a.m. on your collection day.
For a list of acceptable items, applicable charges, or to schedule a pick-up, call us at (763) 780-8464 or email us at service@waltersrecycling.com
Household Hazardous Waste
Walters is not able to accept any liquid or hazardous waste in your regular garbage. Examples include: aerosol cans that have contents remaining, antifreeze, driveway sealer, gasoline and other fuels, mercury, paint (liquid only), paint stripper, paint thinner, pesticides, used motor oil, used oil filters, varnish, wood preservatives, and other household products that are corrosive, flammable, combustible, or poisonous.
Fuel Adjustment
Walters Recycling & Refuse, Inc. is committed to providing superior services as well as attentive customer care. Since June of 2000, we have included a fuel surcharge on your invoices. Due to our inability to control variable the changes in fuel costs, and our desire to provide our customers with an equitable, tangible adjustment, we have instituted the following fuel surcharge index. The fuel surcharge will be adjusted monthly based on the then current weekly U. S. Department of Energy published diesel price per gallon for the Midwest Region prior to the date that your invoice was generated. For example, if the DOE Midwest diesel fuel price prior to generating your invoice is $2.82 per gallon, your fuel surcharge would be 6.10%.
We would like to thank all of our customers for their loyalty over the years - we appreciate it!
The U. S. Department of Energy weekly diesel fuel prices
Frequently Asked Questions
- A. Walters’ recycling service is unlimited and we will always pick-up any recycling you have out on your recycling day.
- Q. I want to recycle cardboard boxes, but can’t fit them all in my recycling cart. What do I do?
- A. Cardboard boxes can be flattened and tied into bundles no more than 3 feet by 3 feet by 1 foot tall and placed next to your recycling cart. There is no charge for additional recycling.
- Q. What time should I put my cart(s) at the curb?
- A. Please have your cart(s) at the curb by 6:30 a.m. Most people find it more convenient to put them out the night before your pick-up day.
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Q. What happens if I forget to put my cart(s) out?
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A. Please call our office as soon as possible. We will do our best to come back the same day to pick-up your garbage. If this is not possible, we may need to arrange to come back when our truck is in your area again.
- Q. My cart is broken. What do I do?
- A. Please call our office to arrange for your cart to be replaced. There is no charge for carts needing replacement due to normal wear and tear.
Q. I had someone come to my door and try to get us to switch to another company. How can Walters help?
A. Please let us know as soon as possible. We would be happy to help you “decipher” the offer you were given and explain the differences in service. Beware of offers that are too good to be true!
Q. What type of yard waste is acceptable?
A. Leaves, grass clippings, weeds, brush and small branches. Branches must be 3 feet or less in length and tied in bundles no more than eighteen inches in diameter.
Q. Can I put my yard waste in plastic bags?
A. No. We are not able to pick-up your yard waste in plastic bags. If you put your yard waste at the curb in plastic bags, our driver will have to debag each bag and leave the bags for you to dispose of. There will be a charge of $3.00 per bag (in addition to our annual fee of $59) for this service.
Holiday Schedule
Walters’ observes the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Collection may be delayed one day if the holiday falls on a Sunday or a week day.
Links
Anoka County - Integrated Waste
Anoka County - Fluorescent Bulb Disposal
Hennepin County Department of Environmental Services
The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide
rethinkrecycling.com - A Twin Cities Metro environmental education site.
twincitiesfreemarket.org - A place to post unwanted items instead of just throwing them away.
cleanup.org - An earth all site.
Walters doesn’t endorse any of the links and is not responsible for its content.