MinnKota EnviroServices Inc

MinnKota Recycling and MinnKota Secured Document Destruction are registered trade names of MinnKota EnviroServices, Inc. a North Dakota corporation. MinnKota has been involved in aluminum beverage can (UBC) recycling since 1975, multiple material recycling since 1989 and document destruction since 1998. MinnKota was the first NAID AAA certified facility in North Dakota and also maintains the certification status in Minnesota. Visit naidonline.org for more information on the NAID certification program. MinnKota specializes in plant-based (off-site) and mobile (on-site) confidential document and hard drive destruction.

MinnKota is committed to providing quality services and products on a consistent basis, while maintaining a reliable operation, guided by industry quality standards. We encourage partnerships in waste management with governmental agencies, commercial customers, business alliances, and residents in regions across North Dakota and Minnesota. MinnKota operates five recycling facilities and provides services to over 2000 commercial accounts in this region and has been recognized as the “Best in North Dakota” by the State Department of Health. Major production mills from across the United States have also recognized MinnKota for their quality materials.

Recycling Services

Commerical Recycling

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 65 percent of total municipal solid waste generated in a community is waste from commercial businesses and institutions.MinnKota Recycling is a full-service community based recycling service provider. We provide services for over 2000 commercial accounts, including the marketing and processing of recyclable materials for the cities of Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead.MinnKota Recycling is able to provide your business with an adequate number of collection containers (65 or 90 gallon) for the volume of recyclables collected. MinnKota can also provide individual cardboard containers to be used for paper recycling collection at copy machines, computer clusters or under each desk and workstation. MinnKota can also provide outside dumpsters for the collection of corrugated cardboard. As a service to you a MinnKota sales representative will provide a free review of your businesses waste stream and recommend the number of containers and service frequency needed for your recycling program. MinnKota’s collection services are available daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually or as needed. A service agreement is set up detailing information which will provide the basis for all activities including service scheduling, invoicing, reporting, and customer service. MinnKota also provides monthly reports detailing the weight of all material picked up.MinnKota actively promotes recycling awareness projects such as Earth Day, Arbor Day and America Recycles Day. Tours of the MinnKota Recycling facility are available by appointment. A MinnKota representative is also available for schools or community organization presentations pertaining to the recycling industry, its benefits and importance.

Cardboard Recycling

Collection services and containers are available. This helps offset your disposal costs.

Office Recycling

Provides all necessary recycling containers for office paper, aluminum cans, magazines, newspapers and other recyclable material generated in the office.

Personal Services

Environmental issues have become so complex that many people feel they can have no impact on them. But there are some things we can all do to help and with MinnKota Recycling, you can make a difference!. When you recycle aluminum cans and sorted recyclables you will be paid for certain materials. Or your proceeds can be donated to charities in our area. Recycling not only helps the environment, it also helps the community in which we live.It is the objective of MinnKota Recycling to encourage the reuse of valuable resources and to reduce the quantity of solid waste that must be land filled. We have convenient recycling center locations in Fargo and Grand Forks, North Dakota and Moorhead and Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. A wide variety of clean and sorted material can be recycled from both your home and business at any of these locations.

Brokerage Services

MinnKota can offer to governmental agencies and businesses mill direct options for qualified truckloads of a variety of recyclable materials.  Whether it is 100 tons per day or 20 tons per year, MinnKota’s key alliances with mills and national accounts allow consistent movement of materials.  We are priced competitively, pick up timely and pay promptly.

Secured Document Destruction

A client specialist from MinnKota will meet with you to discuss your company’s document destruction needs. After agreeing to the appropriate services and schedule, secure containers will be delivered and placed at your business. As dictated by the agreed to schedule, a collection specialist will stop by to collect all documents for destruction and either transport them to MinnKota’s secured facility for destruction within 3 business days or destroy them at you property using the mobile destruction unit. .

With off-site (plant based) services all materials are securely transported from your business to MinnKota's destruction facility. With on-site (mobile shredding) all material is shredded at the customer’s location. After all materials have been destroyed, a certificate of destruction is provided, verifying that all materials have been destroyed. All destroyed materials are compressed into bales and recycled. For highly sensitive material or if your business requires it, MinnKota can accomodate client observation, which allows you to view the destruction process.

The MinnKota off-site (plant based) shredding facility located at, 809 4th Avenue North, Fargo, North Dakota, is a secured facility that is monitored by a camera surveillance system 24-hours per day, 7 days a week.  The system views the entire unloading and destruction process areas.  MinnKota’s facility is only accessible to authorized personnel involved in the document destruction process.  When the building is unoccupied it is secured by an alarm system which is monitored by Electro Watchman.

MinnKota’s plant based facility uses an industrial sized Ameri-Shred HP shredder. NAID AAA certification requires material to be shredded to less than 5/8 inch strips. MinnKota’s shredder shreds material into ½ inch strips.  Once shredded, the material is compressed into approximately 1,400 pound bales and securely stored until it is shipped to a recycling mill where it is pulverized and made into new paper products.

With the addition of an International truck with a mounted Vecoplan shredder, MinnKota is able to drive to a customer’s location and shred their documents on-site.  Vecoplan single shaft shredders not only meet the highest standards of security, but are also world leaders in terms of efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Vecoplan shredders leave rough hewn edges with no clear lines to re-assemble which also adds an additional level of security as the material won’t come out in any particular order from the discharge of the shredder.  Material is then baled at our processing facility and shipped to a recycling mill where it is pulverized and made into new paper products.

HARD DRIVES

Electronic media and devices are a rapidly growing part of our waste stream. Most of this e-scrap contains confidential information. In the wrong hands, the misuse of this information could have dire consequences.MinnKota has been endorsed by NAID for destruction of computer hard drives. The AMS -150 Hard Drive Shredder shreds the hard drive into 1 ½” shred width rendering the hard drives completely destroyed. Our destruction method eliminates the risk and protects your company from compliance violations. Once the hard drives are destroyed each customer will receive a certificate of destruction to document the total destruction of these items.

You Can Make A Difference!

Environmental problems have become so complex that many people feel they can have no effect on them.  Some of the problems can feel out of your control, but there are some things we can all do to help.  With MinnKota Recycling, you can make a difference!  Recycling not only helps the environment, but local charities as well.  When you recycle aluminum cans and sorted paper, proceeds can be donated to charities in our area.  Recycling not only helps the environment, but also helps the community in which we live.