REFUSE & RECYCLINGYou Recycle . . . Then What ?Household Hazardous Waste Events |
New Year’s Day Fourth of July Thanksgiving
Memorial Day Labor Day Christmas
Recycling carts are available upon request for Walled Lake curbside recycling customers.
Contact Priority Waste at 586-228-1200
(Additional fees will apply)
Refuse & Recycling pickup is on Wednesdays, please have it out to the curb by 5:30 a.m.
For any questions or missed trashed, please contact Priority Waste 586-228-1200
Yard Waste
On your regular garbage pick up day, place grass clippings, leaves, twigs and any other yard waste in brown paper yard waste bags or in a container clearly marked "Yard Waste". Items not accepted as yard waste are the following: Straw, hay, yard waste mixed with trash, apples, logs, tree stumps, dirt, rocks, sod or yard waste in plastic bags.
The City's refuse hauler will also pick up branches if they are less than two (2) inches in diameter and are bundled in four (4) foot lengths. Brush bundles should not exceed forty (40) pounds.
Yard waste season begins the first Wednesday in April and runs through the last Wednesday in November.
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RRRASOC
Updated Recycling Guidelines: Click Here for Recycling Guidelines
Drop-Off sites: https://www.rrrasoc.org/recycling/residential-recycling/drop-off-guidelines/
Simple Recycling: https://www.rrrasoc.org/recycling/residential-recycling/curbside-recycling/clothing-and-textile-recycling/
Paper Shredder Service: https://www.rrrasoc.org/paper-shredder/services
Recycling . . . Consider This !
Recycling conserves natural resources, conserves energy, reduces pollution and creates jobs.
- If you recycle just the end of a tin can, you save enough energy to run your TV for a half hour.
- If you recycle the entire can, you save enough energy to run your TV for three hours.
- Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for four (4) hours.
- Recycling glass reduces water use by 50%, air pollution by 20% and mining wastes by 80% and saves 9 gallons of fuel oil.
- For every ton of paper you recycle, you save 17 tress, 464 gallons of oil, 42 gallons of gasoline, 4,201 kWh and 7,000 gallons of water.
- Using recycled paper instead of virgin material reduces air pollution by 74% and water pollution, 76% reduction in water pollution, 97% reduction in mining wastes, 40% reduction in water use, and 90% savings in virgin material used.
- One job is created if a ton of material is land filled. Nine jobs are created if that same ton is recycled instead.
