Residential Recycling Requirements
City of Brookfield Residential Recycling Requirements
By law, all businesses and residents in Wisconsin must recycle. The following items must be rinsed and placed in the blue recycling bin.
If you need a blue recycling bin, please call (262) 782-9650 or stop at the Recycle Center during recycling hours to obtain one.
If you have any questions, please call City of Brookfield (262) 782-9650 or Advanced Disposal (262) 367-6040.
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Bundle or bag paper
Catalogs & Glossy Magazines, Newspapers, Beverage Cartons, Snack Cartons, Paper Egg Cartons, Paper Towel Rolls, Tissue Boxes, Paper Back Books, Cereal, Household Mail & Writing Paper - (Put a second paper bag over the open end of the first one to prevent blowing.) Boxes cannot be recycled that were in the freezer or have been contaminated with food. |
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Corrugated Cardboard
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Unwaxed and clean with "waffle core".
Flatten and cut to 2 feet x 2 feet.
Bundle beside bin.
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Phone Books
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Place on top of bin.
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Household Bottles, Cans, Jars
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(Place mixed loose containers in bin; No Plastic Bags)
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Aluminum Cans, Clean Kitchen Foil Products
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(Place mixed loose containers in bin; No Plastic Bags)
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Glass Bottles and Jars
(Clear and Colored)
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Rinse clean and throw away lids, labels need not be removed. No window glass, ceramic dishes, light bulbs, drinking glasses.
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Plastic Bottles
(Coded 1 or 2 on Bottom)
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#1 - Soda bottles, some cooking oils,
dish detergent and shampoo bottles.
#2 - Milk, water, juice jugs, some laundry
detergent & fabric softener bottles.
Rinse, flatten and throw away caps.
No motor oil, anti-freeze, or pesticide bottles.
No other plastics coded with 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7.
No deli containers, yogurt or margarine tubs.
No Plastic Bags.
Do not replace caps on empty plastic bottles. |
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Steel/Tin Cans
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Rinse clean of food, throw away lids, labels
need not be removed.
Empty aerosol cans.
No scrap metal, clothes hangars or pots and
pans.
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If you have any questions, please call City of Brookfield at – (262) 782-9650 or Advanced Disposal at – (262) 367-6040.
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