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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Your options for recycling in the Sioux Falls area are about to be reduced. The free public drop-off site at Millennium Recycling will close at the end of the year.
Millennium recycles around 25,000 tons of material a day. Keeping mountains of trash out of the Sioux Falls landfill. However, because of abuse, the free public drop-off service will end in 78 days. The bins were put in place to encourage responsible recycling. However, in January these bins will go away because too many people have been dumping trash.
“Over the last couple years there has been more and more garbage dumped in there,” said Shannon Dwire, President of Millennium Recycling. “Anything, mattresses to lawn furniture and a motorcycle and recently we had the whole front end of an Audi.”
We monitored the site for 30 minutes, in that time 4 vehicles pulled up to unload including Katy and Brian Williams who were dropping off large pieces of cardboard.
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“We can’t put it all in the little green bin, so looked it up and found it,” said Brian.
Tom: Is it kind of a bummer that it’s going to go away?
“It’s nice to have a place with bulk cardboard,” said Brian.
As for recycling options in 2025? You can take advantage of your private haulers for recycling, but that doesn’t always make sense for larger loads.A pickup load to the landfill with household waste will cost $19 or $10 for a car or mini van. Millennium is a business and Dwire says they could no longer absorb the cost of the trash dumped in the public bins.
“We have to haul it out to the landfill and we have to pay the same fees that everybody else pays,” said Dwire.
The free public bins will be available until January. Dwire has reached out to see if the city would like to work with them to offer a Public Recycling Drop-Off Location. There has been no formal response, however, people who support the idea are encouraged to contact city leaders.”We feel bad about doing it, we really don’t want to lose the good recyclers but at the end of the day if you can’t afford to keep the service up it just doesn’t make sense ay more,” said Dwire.
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