Metro Appliance Recycling is the Twin Cities trusted processor of appliances, computers, electronics, and fluorescent light bulbs.Our recycling service is easy and cost less.  You can drop items off at our facility in Otsego, Minnesota or we can send a truck out for curb side pick up anywhere in the twin cities or surrounding suburbs including St. Cloud.We accept:  refrigerator, stove, furnace, dishwasher, freezer, air conditioner, water heater, water softener, washing machine, dryer, dehumidifier, microwave, electronics, computers, and all light bulbs, ballasts.We work with commercial customers including fast food chains, manufacturing warehouses, waste companies, property management companies, roll-off companies, cities, other recyclers who collect and are not licensed to process, banks, medical companies, and roof top a/c companies.  We can tailor a schedule or recycling program that work best for your company.Metro Appliance Recycling is licensed and insured to safely handle the proper processing of old appliances.  Our certified technicians are qualified to reclaim freon and follow safe handling procedures.  We work within the Twin Cities area and surrounding suburbs.  Items can be dropped off to us or you can schedule curb side pick-up of unwanted appliances.We accept computers and electronics.  Your privacy and security are very important.  Computers that are turned in for recycling are completely disassembled at our facility.  Hard drives are not cleaned with "Pentagon approved software" and resold or reused like some recyclers.  Hard drives are De-manufactured and then shredded which renders them useless and any information is 100% gone.  Computer boards are ground into chips and then melted to reclaim precious metals and ensuring that all information is destroyed.  A certificate of destruction is available upon request.Fluorescent lights contain up to 3 mg of mercury therefore they are classified as hazardous material.  We accept all kinds of Fluorescent bulbs including CFL, HID, Ultraviolet, tubes, U shaped, flood lamps, and incandescent.  We also accept ballast and capacitors for recycling.As of July 1, 2006 computers and electronics can not be thrown in your garbage can.  Metro Appliance Recycling has set up services to process these items for recycling.  Stereos, Televisions, DVD players, VCRs, Small household appliances are accepted for processing.Metro Appliance Recycling offers computer recycling and asset recovery.  We take your security of information seriously.  All components are disassembled and processed for recycling leaving no chance for your information to be recovered and misused.  We guarantee your information will be destroyed. We WILL NOT "wipe" and sell your hard drive on ebay like our competitors do.  A certificate of destruction is available upon request.