Steele County owns and operates the Steele County Landfill located along Hwy. 218 between Owatonna and Blooming Prairie. The landfill accepts mixed solid wastes, industrial wastes, demolition debris and asbestos containing material for disposal, electronics (computers, TVs, DVD players, VCRs). From May through September at the landfill a household hazardous waste facility accepts hazardous wastes from homes for proper disposal free of charge. See below for more information. The landfill also has a recycling station where people may recycle numerous types of papers and cans and bottles and a tank where residents may recycle used motor oil and used oil filters free of charge. For various fees, the landfill also accepts appliances, electronics (computers, TVs, DVD players, VCRs), tires, and clean concrete/bituminous for recycling.
2012 Steele County Landfill Rates
Prices include all applicable taxes.
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| Mixed Solid Waste |
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| Compacted and Non compacted (per ton) |
$68.13 |
| Cars (each) |
$13.00 |
| Pickups (each) |
$24.00 |
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| Demolition Debris |
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| Large Trucks (per ton) |
$25.00 |
| Pickup (each) |
$16.00 |
| Concrete (clean and separated) |
$6.00 |
Demolition debris includes materials from the demolition of buildings or roads, such as masonry, untreated wood, glass, rock, plastic building parts and asphalt shingles. Mixed solid wastes such as plastic, paper, cardboard, household refuse, furniture, treated wood, empty cans and containers, styrofoam, caulking tubes, carpets, asbestos shingles and new construction materials, including lumber, must not be mixed with demolition debris.
Minnesota landfills are not allowed to bury liquids of any kind, hazardous waste or fluorescent light bulbs, tires, major appliances, vehicle batteries, motor oil, oil filters and electronic devices containing a screen or video display such as TV sets and computer monitors .
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Special Wastes
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| Prices include all applicable taxes. |
| Appliances |
(each) |
$13.00 |
| Air Conditioners |
(each) |
$20.00 |
| TV's, Computer Monitors (each) |
(each) |
$20.00 |
Misc. Electronics - VCRs, DVDs, CPUs etc.
Recylced at Consumer Request. State law does not require recycling of these types of electronics. |
(each) |
$ 5.00 |
| Tires (each) |
Car |
$ 3.00 |
| Truck |
$12.00 |
| Tractor |
$15.00 |
| Asbestos |
per ton |
$80.00 |
| pickup |
$36.00 |
| bag |
$ 4.68 |
| Petroleum Contaminated Soil & Waste |
per ton |
$10.00 |
| Oil Filters |
(each) |
$0.00 |
| Mattresses, Box Springs |
per ton |
$300.00 |
| each |
$12.00 |
Yard Waste Compost
All four cities in Steele County operate community yard waste compost sites for their residents. Call the City office for more information on location and hours of each facility:
- Blooming Prairie 507-583-7573
- Ellendale 507-684-2681
- Medford 507-455-2866
- Owatonna's Yard Waste Compost Site is available for use by anyone. For more information on location, hours, what is accepted, charges and products available for purchase, click here http://ci.owatonna.mn.us/compost-site
For information on building and maintaining a backyard compost site, call the Steele County Recycling Hotline: 507-451-5443
Appliances include dishwashers, refrigerators, stoves and ranges, water heaters, clothes dryers, clothes washers, garbage disposals, trash compactors, microwave ovens, freezers, residential furnaces, dehumidifiers and heat pumps.
| Other Charges |
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| Uncovered Load |
$10.00 |
| No Tailgate |
$10.00 |
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