• Use a small bucket to collect food scraps in your kitchen.
  
  • Line collection containers with a paper or compostable bag (available at local retailers) to help keep it clean.
• Empty bagged organics into the organics bin provided by the waste hauler.
• Put the blue organics bin at the end of your driveway on trash collection day.

• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Meat
• Bread
• Pasta
• Egg shells
• Paper towels and plates
• Paper cups
• Pizza boxes
• Coffee filters

Visit Hennepin County’s website to find a full list of recyclable items.

As part of the grant program, the city will provide a limited supply of compostable bags and kitchen containers to all organics customers at no charge.

Stop by Public Works at 11522 Minnetonka Blvd. to get a container and 25 bags.

In 2023, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency notified Minnetonka and other communities of a state statute that requires cities to prohibit haulers from "imposing a greater charge on residents who recycle than on residents that do not recycle." Cities are required by Hennepin County to make organics collection available to residents, and state law requires all residents must be charged for organics recycling services in the communities where the service is available. 

The intent is to make organics recycling services available and paid for by all residents, making the service more affordable for all residents, and keeping prices affordable.

Hennepin County requires that curbside recycling service be available to households. Additionally, as of January 2022, Hennepin County required cities to make organics recycling available to all households with curbside recycling service. This requirement was part of revisions the County made to its recycling ordinance (Ordinance 13) in November 2018. Hennepin County's position is that significantly increasing the collection of organic material is important to achieving zero waste and climate action goals. The County is committed to achieving a zero-waste future, which the County defines as diverting 90% of waste from landfills or incinerators.

The County's ordinance required that cities either contract with a hauler to provide residential curbside organics collection with all households to be charged, regardless of participation; or allowed for cities to require that all licensed residential refuse haulers make organics collection services available to their customers. To comply with this mandate, Minnetonka required licensed residential refuse haulers to make organics recycling available to their Minnetonka customers as a subscription service.