Facility details
- Address
- 310 3rd Street
Elbow Lake, MN 56531 - Phone
- (218) 685-6273
- Facility type
- Recycling
- Operator
- Municipal
- County
- Grant County
- EPA Region
- 5
- Data sources
- EPA
- Last verified
- 2026-10-09
About this facility
A recycling center collects, sorts and prepares recoverable materials so they can be sold to mills and manufacturers instead of being landfilled. Some are public drop-off sites run by a city, county or hauler; others are commercial buy-back yards or processing plants that take material from collection routes and businesses. What a given site handles depends on its equipment and the markets it sells into, so one center may focus on cardboard and containers while another takes only scrap metal. Many sites pay for certain materials and charge for others. Hours, fees and accepted materials vary — call ahead to confirm what is taken, how it must be sorted and whether there is a minimum quantity.
Typically accepted at Recycling Center facilities
- Cardboard and mixed paper
- Plastic bottles and containers
- Aluminum and steel cans
- Glass bottles and jars
- Scrap metal
- Electronics (at some sites)
Hours, fees and accepted materials vary by site — call ahead before hauling a load.
Nearby facilities
- City of Hoffman Transfer Station 14.7 mi · Hoffman, MN
- Fergus Falls Sanitary Landfill Landfill 19.0 mi · Fergus Falls, MN
- Otter Tail Co SW facility Transfer Station 21.1 mi · Fergus Falls, MN
- Fergus Falls TS Transfer Station 21.6 mi · Fergus Falls, MN
Nearest landfill: Fergus Falls Sanitary Landfill, Fergus Falls — 19.0 mi
Area served
Serves Elbow Lake, Barrett, Wendell, Ashby, Dalton, Norcross, Hoffman, Evansville.
County context
One of 1 recycling centers in Grant County, MN.
ZIP 56531 population 1,948.
Minnesota solid-waste agency: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)