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Recycling
Unicorn on The Prairie (UP) 

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The Merc encourages its staff and volunteers to develop their dreams into reality.  For Barista Paige, that dream included a whole lot of “soft plastics.”  Paige is blown away by the amount of soft plastics that end up in land-fills and decided to do something about it.  She contacted over 90 businesses and residents and encouraged them to collect their bags, shrink wraps and other like items.  Local recycling contractors don’t take those things so she collected it all up and drove for hours to bring thousands of pounds to a place that could recycle them.   This herculean effort got refined by raising money for a manual baler and contacting an organization that would buy the bales. 

Paige is working with public and private stakeholders to take this effort to the next level – a large, efficient, state-of-the art Materials Recovery Facility that provides county-wide recycling services for those items that would have ended up on landfills and ultimately in our soil and water. 

Stay tuned for details and developments – and reach out if you’d like to be part of this solution!

Madison Mercantile

Mission: Provide an accessible, equitable, inclusive and flexible space that supports Art, Culture, Community and Innovation to our city and our region.

Email: kris@madisonmercantile.com

Phone:320-698-7121 (Coffee House)

             320-361-0006 (Kris/Exec Dir)

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601 1st Street
Madison, MN
56256

Thanks to......

Mardag Foundation

McKnight Foundation

Southwest Minnesota Arts Council

Blandin Foundation

Dana and Christopher Reeve Foundation 

Southwest Initiative Foundation

AARP

MN Department of Agriculture

Countryside Public Health

Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging

University of Minnesota Extension 

​Madison, MN Economic Development

Individual Donors

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