Facility details
- Address
- 8609 Highway 2
Brookston, MN 55711 - Phone
- (218) 453-5692
- Facility type
- Transfer Station
- County
- St. Louis County
- EPA Region
- 5
- Data sources
- EPA
- Last verified
- 2026-10-09
About this facility
A transfer station is a staging point in the solid-waste system. Collection trucks, roll-off haulers and in many places residents with a pickup load drop waste on a tipping floor, where it is consolidated into larger transfer trailers or rail containers and moved to a landfill, waste-to-energy plant or recycling facility. Haulers use transfer stations to keep route trucks working locally instead of driving to a distant disposal site. Some transfer stations are open to the public, while many municipal sites are restricted to residents with a permit or sticker. Larger sites weigh loads and charge by the ton; smaller ones charge per bag or per item. Hours, fees and accepted materials vary — call ahead, especially for bulky items, construction debris, tires, appliances or anything that may be restricted.
Hours, fees and accepted materials vary by site — call ahead before hauling a load.
Nearby facilities
- Marks Salvage & Recycling Cash 4 Junk Autos Recycling 2.3 mi · Saginaw, MN
- Shamrock Landfill Landfill 7.1 mi · Cloquet, MN
- Cloquet Riverside Recycling Inc Recycling 10.7 mi · Cloquet, MN
- Kirshbaum Krupp Metal Company Metals 12.0 mi · Cloquet, MN
- Voyageur Industrial Landfill Landfill 12.4 mi · Canyon, MN
- Shamrock Environmental Landfill Landfill 12.8 mi · Cloquet, MN
- Carlton Co HHW & Transfer Station Transfer Station 13.5 mi · Carlton, MN
- Mike's Recycling + Service Recycling 15.2 mi · Duluth, MN
- WLSSD Materials Recovery Center MRFRecycling 19.8 mi · Duluth, MN
- R and J Recycling Recycling 20.0 mi · Meadowlands, MN
Nearest landfill: Shamrock Landfill, Cloquet — 7.1 mi
Area served
Serves Brookston, Cloquet, Saginaw, Alborn, Sawyer, Esko.
County context
One of 13 transfer stations in St. Louis County, MN.
ZIP 55711 population 518.
Minnesota solid-waste agency: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)