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The MPCA had $800,000 in grant funding to help businesses, nonprofits, schools, and local governments with projects that use recyclable materials or process recyclable material into a higher value material.
Implementing water quality standards come with tangible costs and benefits. Costs such as taxes to residents, regulated parties, and communities help achieve benefits such as increased property values, tourism, and protecting human health.
The new commercial organics collection will service a 20- to 30-stop route across both Hubbard and Beltrami counties.
This webpage will not only address potential noncompliance issues for air permittees, but it will help inspectors get all of the necessary information to facilities with one link.
The wood waste hierarchy outlines wood waste disposal methods in order of most preferable to least preferable.
A waste tire transporter removes waste tires from a waste tire generator, tire dump, or waste tire facility and delivers the waste tires for aggregation, storage, or processing.
The MPCA offers a variety of tools to help counties, cities, and townships develop and support systems that recover resources and manage waste.Notify the agency about changes to contacts in your…
Image In Minnesota, 2,469 schools serve more than 898,000 K-12 students and employ thousands of teachers and staff. An MPCA study found that Minnesota…
Permitted waste facilities, waste projects, and waste haulers in Minnesota must submit regular reports to the MPCA.
The MPCA has withdrawn proposed rules relating to waste treated seeds.
Construction and demolition projects produce twice the amount of waste of household trash every year. A new MPCA grant aims to reduce that amount by funding innovative building material reuse projects.
A recent $1 million MPCA grant round will fund projects focused on waste reduction and reuse. To invest in projects that will continue to offer benefits to Minnesotans well into the future, this grant round prioritized proposals that would replace single-use items with reusables or help build a trained repair workforce in Minnesota.
Determine if your facility requires an air permit and, if so, which permit type may be the best fit for your business.
Lights, camera, antics! Students at Century College script and produce a fun video as part of their coursework.
The Keep It Clean campaign, a 2023 Minnesota law, and many partners working together are adding up to less garbage and waste left behind on frozen lakes.
Less than three years after Minnesota passed the country's first ban on TCE, a carcinogenic solvent, facilities around the state have removed it from their processes.
MPCA's Closed Landfill Program is a voluntary program established in 1994 to properly close, monitor, and maintain Minnesota's closed municipal sanitary landfills.
The MPCA had just over $800,000 available to support waste reduction and reuse projects across the state.
Public entities In Minnesota, most sustainable purchasing requirements are implemented at the local government level. However, there are some state requirements for public entities: Minnesota state…
Robyn Dwight is the 2024 winner of the Community Conservationist Award given by the Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts and MPCA. She helped expand Keep It Clean, which keeps garbage off lake ice.