Recycling Center & Recycling Requirements

PLEASE LEAVE AT LEAST 5 FEET OF CLEARANCE ON EITHER SIDE OF YOUR RECYCLE CART WHEN SETTING IT OUT FOR PICK-UP.

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Recycling Center
(Located behind City Garage)
710 West Sumner Street
Hartford, WI  53027
(262) 673-8285
 
Hours: (except holidays)
Thursday:  5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Saturday:  9:00 am to Noon
 
Recycling Notice 
PLEASE READ
 
Link to Chapter 23 of the Municipal Code
as it pertains to Solid Waste Recycling
 
Apply for a recycling cart for your newly constructed home by following this link

CURBSIDE RECYCLING ITEMS

Co-mingle the following items in the new VEOLIA RECYCLING CART.

SEE DEFINITIONS BELOW

Aluminum Cans

Cardboard

Glass

Newspapers/Magazines
Plastic
MUST BE SPI CODE # 1-7

Steel (Tin) Cans
Place above items out by 7:00 am EVERY OTHER WEEK on your regular garbage day, per the recycling calendar available at City Hall.  Use of a VEOLIA RECYCLING CART is required for Curbside pick-up. 
 

RECYCLING CENTER ITEMS

CITY RESIDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO DELIVER THE FOLLOWING ITEMS TO THE RECYCLING CENTER.

Car Batteries

Large Cardboard (flattened)

Leaves

 Garden Waste & Grass Clippings

Used Motor Oil & Anti-Freeze

Appliances** & Metal Items

**City residents may arrange for Appliance pick-up.  Cost is $15 per appliance.  Pay fee at City Hall Cashier's Counter.  With receipt in hand schedule your APPOINTMENT for curbside pick-up at the Engineering Counter.  Call 673-8259 if you have a question.

Tires* (no rims)

*City residents must pay a $5.00 per tire disposal fee at the Recycling Center.  Commercial businesses must pay $10.00 per tire disposal fee at the Recycling Center.
Go to the 'Who do I call...' directory for COMPUTER RECYCLING

Recycling Rules:

  • Glass, aluminum, tin and steel cans, newspapers, magazines, cardboard, office paper and plastics shall be mixed together in your VEOLIA RECYCLING BIN.

  • All other materials shall be placed in a trash container (provided it meets garbage policy requirements)

Definitions...

Aluminum Cans:  Rinse.  May be crushed. No other aluminum items such as foil or bottle caps.

Plastic:  Plastic containers must be marked SPI #1-7 and include:

  • One gallon and one-half gallon milk bottles

  • One gallon water bottles

  • Two gallon water dispensers

  • Liquid laundry containers

  • Windshield solvent bottles

  • One, two and three liter soda bottles

Rinse plastic containers clean and discard lids in trash.  Not accepted are:  Styrofoam, plastic cups and film, hard plastic toys, pails, etc..., medicine bottles & syringes.

Steel (Tin) Cans:  Food and beverage cans only.  Rinse cans. Remove labels.  No aerosol or paint cans accepted.

Newspapers/Magazines:  No bathroom waste paper, carbon paper, cellophane, cloth, cork, foil, polystyrene, anything Styrofoam, anything waxed, candy wrappers, napkins, paper cups, paper food containers, photographs, fiberboard, labels and label backings.

DO NOT RECYCLE STYROFOAM. It is garbage

NO MEDICAL WASTE OR HAZARDOUS WASTE IS ACCEPTED CURBSIDE!  Call the Veolia Port Washington facility for more information at:  (800) 556-5267 or visit: www.co.ozaukee.wi.us/hhw

 

 

 
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