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MPCA Environmental Assistance grant program puts spotlight on mend-it clinics and other reuse and waste reduction efforts.

Guidance for solid waste facilities

Profile on Bridging, a Twin Cities based nonprofit that keeps goods with more life out of landfills and that donates them to families in need.

The MPCA identified a series of policy recommendations for the optimal management of decommissioned solar panels.

Environmental information and permits that affect wood-finishing industries.

Environmental information and permits that affect hot mix asphalt plants.

Under the Minnesota Electronics Recycling Act, the MPCA wishes to shift the responsibility for paying for collection and recycling of "covered electronic devices" away from the public sector, specifically local government.

An individual solid waste permit is tailored to a specific solid waste facility or activity.

The MPCA has adopted amended rules relating to when maintenance of a closed landfill should end.

Solid waste facilities may close or terminate their permit depending on the solid waste activities occurring at the site.

Details for solid waste management facility permit issuance and reissuance.

A permit extension notification allows transfer stations and source-separated organic material (SSOM) compost facilities to apply for an extension of their permit without a complete permit reissuance application.

“Area C” is the name given to Ford Motor Company’s former industrial waste dump on the floodplain of the Mississippi River, at the base of the bluff below the former Twin Cities Assembly Plant in Saint Paul.

Based on volume, construction and demolition debris presents a big opportunity for reducing waste and its environmental effects.

Addressing excess nutrient levels in Lake Pepin based on the site-specific water quality eutrophication criteria for the lake developed by the MPCA.

Dem-Con is proposing a change to begin accepting municipal solid waste (MSW), converting approximately 2.2 million cubic yards of permitted construction and demolition (C&D) space. A project of this size requires the project to go through the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process.

Increasing organics collection and processing infrastructure is necessary to meet statewide recycling goals

The MPCA sought proposals to conduct a bench study to evaluate the effectiveness and potential dosages of soil amendments at the bench scale to support the analysis, decision making, and planning required to implement Remedial Actions for the Precision Plating Superfund Site (SR0000249)

Cities fined over $12,000 apiece for municipal wastewater violations

Elk River Landfill, Inc. proposes a northward expansion of its landfill into Livonia Township.