Disposal guide

Disposal method: Recycle

Flatten all boxes (cardboard, cracker, cereal, soda, etc.) and put in your recycling cart. Do not stuff into cart. Cart contents should come out easily when the cart is tipped.

Disposal method: Hazardous waste, Garbage

Bring full or partly full aerosol cans to a Hennepin County Drop-off facility. 

Hazardous spray cans include

• butane
• penetrants
• hair spray
• bug spray
• spray paint

Items marked Caution, Caustic, Corrosive, Danger, Flammable, Poison, Volatile, or Warning are considered hazardous waste.

Bag and put empty spray cans from hazardous products in the garbage.  

Put empty spray cans from non-hazardous products in your recycling cart.

This includes items like

• spray cheese
• whipped cream
• shaving cream
• sun screen
• air fresheners

Full or partially full spray cans are a safety hazard for collection crews.

Disposal method: Garbage

Bag and put in your garbage cart.

Electrical fuses are non-hazardous.

Disposal method: Garbage

Donate if usable. If not usable, bag and put in your garbage cart.

Coffee pods are too small to be properly sorted at the recycling facility. Very few are BPI certified compostable. If the pod is BPI certified compostable, bag and put in your organics cart.

You can empty the coffee grounds into your organics, but the pods should be thrown away.

Make sure to check with the product manufacturer to see if they have a mail-back program.

Disposal method: Garbage

Donate if usable. If not usable, bag and put in your garbage cart.

If your coffee maker has a metal carafe, the carafe can be recycled as scrap metal. Bring it to a scrap metal drop-off location.

If the carafe is glass, bag and put it in the garbage.

You could also keep it in a box with other small electronic or metal items. When the box is full, set it next to your recycling cart by 6 a.m. on your recycling day. Label the box "for Solid Waste". The crew will write your item on a list and a separate truck will come the next business day to pick it up for recycling.

Learn more about Large item collection

Post on a neighborhood social media platform to see if anyone in your neighborhood is interested. If unable to bring to a drop-off facility or set out for pickup, bag and put in your garbage cart.