Millennium Recycling

Millennium Recycling is one of the country's most efficient material recovery facilities (MRFs); continually adapting and researching ways to stay ahead of the single stream recycling process.  Serving communities across the Upper Midwest, Millennium uses state-of-the art optical sorters, screens, magnets, and other sorting mechanisms to separate recyclable items.  This process helps to make recycling more accessible and easier for consumers, and it also diverts a significant amount of waste from landfills.

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Founded in 1999, Millennium Recycling has grown with intention: continually finding innovative ways to not only give a second life to items in their recycling facility, but also to improve the lives of the local community.  One way they accomplish this is through participating in second chance employment.  This gives members of the local community a fresh start to rebuild lives after incarceration.  Millennium also partners with local nonprofits to contribute to community welfare and waste diversion efforts.   This includes Millennium Recycling's nonprofit division, BINfluencers, which collaborates with area organizations to provide education and opportunities for waste diversion in the communities they serve.  

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Millennium's commitment to waste diversion does not end with the impressive actions of their facility.  In addition to the thousands of tons of recyclables their facility processes each month, they also participate in local pallet recycling programs.  This helps to create a more sustainable wood recycling program as pallets are mulched to landscaping materials at their end-of-life cycle.

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At their Sioux Falls facility, Millennium has made providing meals for its employees a daily priority.  This not only creates a great benefit of employment, but helps to reduce carbon emissions associated with mealtime travel.  While the nature of the facility's operations requires a great deal of paved surfaces, Millennium has included pollinator pots and native landscaping near employee and visitor entrances.