Hartel's/DBJ Disposal Companies

Your 'Local Choice' for OVER 60 YEARS, we've been serving the area's waste and recycling needs since 1952. Though we are now the area's oldest and largest independent hauler, we still give our customers the flexible service you want - along with the personal touch you deserve!We provide residential and commercial service to the communities of Proctor, Hermantown, Duluth, Solway, Midway, Rice Lake, Pequaywan, North Star, Normanna, Lakewood, Gnesen, Fredenberg, Duluth Townships, and areas surrounding Caribou; Island; and Pike Lakes.In addition, we provide home dumpster and roll-off service in Cotton, Cloquet, Duluth area, Fish Lake, Floodwood, Island Lake, Moose Lake, the North Shore, Pequaywan Lake, Superior, WI & surrounding communities south to Solon Springs, Two Harbors. We also provide commercial service as well as residential recycling in Superior.

History

Hartel’s / DBJ Disposal has proudly served your neighborhood for OVER 60 years! In 1952, Leo Hartel started his independent business, Duluth and Proctor Garbage Service. He operated with the principles of quality service and personal integrity. Leo continued to serve the community until 1985, when his son, Dan Hartel, and nephew, Jeff Walstrom, purchased the company. In 1995, Hartel’s merged with Darrell B. Johnson’s DBJ Disposal Company, which has served the Duluth area since 1979. It soon after became known as Hartel’s / DBJ Disposal Companies. Four name changes and over a half century later, Hartel’s / DBJ Disposal is the largest locally owned disposal company in NE Minnesota. While much has changed in the industry and region, the company has rolled forward with new equipment while retaining its old fashioned values of customer service and community involvement.
We all work and live in the communities we serve, and most importantly, we keep your money working right here in the community for all of us!

Pickup Frequency:

We provide biweekly recycling in Duluth, Hermantown, Proctor and Superior. Visit our pickup schedule to check the schedule. If you continue to use a bin system, your bin should be placed next to your trash cart.

Commercial Trash

Hartel’s / DBJ Disposal provides trash pickup for our commercial customers, with containers from 1.5 to 8 yards. Besides weekly trash pickup, the company can help with project-related refuse. Please visit our dumpster service page for information on home dumpsters and roll-offs ranging in size from 6 to 30 yards.

Commercial Recycling

Hartel's / DBJ Recycling is proud to offer a commercial recycling service for the businesses in our community. We provide carts as well as a large variety of dumpster sizes and frequency of pickup. Roll-off and compactor service is also available. All recyclables are processed locally at our Recycling Center in Proctor. We take pride in keeping our community clean and our prices low!

What Can Not Go Into The Trash

Preparing your trash for pickup requires a little knowledge of what can and can not go into your cart. Anything that can not be composted or recycled goes into the trash, except for the following items:

• Appliances or electronics
• Bulk items (sofa, mattress)
• Concrete, rocks, dirt
• Debris from construction, remodeling or demolition
• Hazardous waste
• Needles or syringes
• Loose or hot ashes
• Loose pet waste (Please double bag)
• Tires
• Yard waste

Roll-Off Dumpsters Available!

Hartel's / DBJ Disposal can help with project-related refuse. With roll-off dumpsters ranging in size from 10 to 30 yards, we can assist with easy disposal of large items or quantities while cleaning, remodeling, and roofing/doing demolition. The box is delivered to your site and picked up when you are done. For smaller projects, please check out our home dumpsters. For a Roll-Off Quote, please fill out our request form and we will call or e-mail you within one business day.

Recycling Center

Wouldn’t it be nice if everything we disposed of could be recycled? Unfortunately, that is not the case. However, we are pleased to be the only hauler in the Twin Ports that processes recyclables locally operating a state-of-the-art Recycling Center right here in Proctor. Our local Recycling Center maximizes the sorting of materials that can be recycled into many things that are used again and minimize filling up landfills.

We process 36 tons of material every day at our Recycling Center. Can you imagine the amount of landfill space our customers would use if you didn't recycle? As measured by weight, those 36 tons a day break down to about 75% paper, 16% glass, 6% plastic, and approximately 3% Tin /Aluminum. Some items that come into our recycling center are sorted out as Unrecyclable material and that amounts to about 1% of what we process a day. We take care of that too, by disposing of it properly.At Hartel's / DBJ, we take recycling seriously. Any effort our customers make to recycle is a statement that you want the items you put into your cart to actually be recycled and support a healthy environment. We are able to keep many items local, reusing what you've recycled.We're always in search of local Minnesota companies that are in business making new products out of the recyclables we collect and sort. That reduces the overall carbon footprint for those items - less vehicle travel, less carbon released.