Facility details
- Address
- 1345 Highway 32 S
Thief River Falls, MN 56701 - Phone
- (218) 681-0260
- Facility type
- Recycling
- County
- Pennington 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
- Pennington County TS Transfer Station 1.4 mi · Thief River Falls, MN
- Phillips Iron and Metal MetalsRecycling 2.2 mi · Thief River Falls, MN
- Sanitary Service Transfer Station 14.9 mi · Red Lake Falls, MN
- Red Lake County Demo LF Landfill 15.2 mi · Red Lake Falls, MN
- Red Lake County Demo LF Landfill 23.4 mi · Oklee, MN
- Red Lake County Demolition Landfill Landfill 23.4 mi · Red Lake Falls, MN
- Polk County Sanitary Landfill Landfill 23.8 mi · Crookston, MN
Nearest landfill: Red Lake County Demo LF, Red Lake Falls — 15.2 mi
Area served
Serves Thief River Falls, Saint Hilaire.
County context
One of 2 recycling centers in Pennington County, MN.
ZIP 56701 population 12,814.
Minnesota solid-waste agency: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)