Recycling InformationMinneapolis Solid Waste and Recycling: Find your recycling pick-up days; order recycling bins; and learn how to separate your recycling and more at this city site.
Eureka Recycling: Purchase recycled goods; learn about recycling and composting; find composting classes; and check out the handy waste and recycling guides for plastics, electronics, and more. This is also the main source for recycling info in St. Paul and surrounding areas.
Rethink Recycling: Find easy ways to recycle appliances, light bulbs, batteries, tires, yard waste, computers, paint and more in the Twin Cities. Rethink Recycling also provides easy ways to access information about recycling in
your county. Energy-saving Tips and GuidesMinnesota Renewable Energy Society: Offering free classes and workshops, MRES focuses on education, awareness, and advocacy efforts for all forms of renewable energy technologies, with a particular emphasis on solar energy technologies.
Neighborhood Energy Connection : The Neighborhood Energy Connection (NEC) (formerly the Saint Paul Neighborhood Energy Consortium) is a nonprofit organization that provides energy efficiency information, services and programs to residents, businesses, and communities across Minnesota.
Stay Warm Minnesota: A project through CenterPoint Energy, Stay Warm Minnesota provides tips and more on ways to create a more energy-efficient home and keep gas bills low in winter.
Minnesota Energy Challenge: Calculate your carbon footprint and learn how you can reduce the energy used in your home at this illuminating web site created by the Center for Energy and the Environment.
Info on Grants and Tax Rebates for Energy-efficient Improvements The U.S. Department of Energy
provides an easy guide to tax incentives for purchasing
fuel-efficient vehicles or for residential energy-efficient upgrades.
CenterPoint Energy Residential Rebates: Along with tax breaks, Minnesotans can get money back for installing energy-efficient furnaces, boilers, and water heaters.
Home Energy AuditsCenterPoint Energy Home Energy Audits This affordable service ranges from $25 to $100 and allows you to determine your energy use and your home's efficiency and receive easy-to-follow tips on saving energy and money.
Xcel Home Energy Audits cost $35 and help customers learn ways to save money and energy.
Air Quality Index
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency provides, among a ton of helpful links, daily air-quality updates for cities all over Minnesota. It's also a wonderful resource for understanding
environmental issues in the state.
Water Quality The Environmental Working Group provides information about environmental concerns in your area as well as info about the contaminants in the drinking water in your town and what you can do to stop them.
