REFUSE & RECYCLING

New Year’s Day   Fourth of July     Thanksgiving

Memorial Day     Labor Day           Christmas

64-gallon recycling carts are available upon request for Walled Lake curbside recycling customers.

Contact GFL Environmental Services at 844-464-3587

(Additional $3 monthly fee per cart applies)

Refuse pickup is on Wednesdays, please have trash out to the curb by 5:30 a.m.

For any questions or missed trashed, please contact Green For Life (GFL) Environmental 1-844-464-3587

 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. 

HOW THE MRF WORKS

• Recycling trucks arrive at the MRF after picking up recyclables from in front of your home, a drop-off center or business. Thay are weighed so we know who is recycling how much of what. 
• Trucks then dump mixed containers (glass, plastic, cans, aluminum foil, and pie tins) on one side of the building and paper (newspaper, magazines, box board, and cardboard) on the other. There are two sorting lines: One (1) for containers and one (1) for paper. 
• Bucket loaders push the mixed containers into a pit for the in-feed conveyor belt. The conveyor belt moves the containers into a line of machines affectionately referred to as "Charlotte's Web" because the system is so intricate. 
• Employees remove any non-recyclable materials (contaminants) mistakenly included with the recyclables. 
• Containers then pass through a spinning cylinder with holes in it called a trommel screen. Any glass that is small enough to fall through the holes, goes into a roll-off box and is shipped as "mixed" glass. 
• Then a magnetic system pulls out steel, tin and bi-metal cans. They are stored in a giant cage until they are baled. A blower sends all of the plastic, aluminum foil and pie tins onto a conveyor belt that travels into a sorting room. There, people sort the different types of plastic and aluminum by hand into huge cages for storage. 
• The only material left on the conveyor belt is glass that was too big to fall through the holes of the trommel screen. Employees sort the glass by hand according to color. The glass is shipped, by color, to glass recyclers. The giant plastic and metal storage cages are opened one at a time, from the bottom. Recyclables spill out into a conveyor belt that travels directly to one of the two balers in the MRF.
• Paper is not paper! Although most paper arrives mixed together, it leaved the MRF sorted by paper type. Your newspaper and coupons stay together and are baled and shipped to a paper mill for recycling. Your magazines are sorted by hand and shipped to a different paper mill. Your cereal-type boxes (box board) are sorted from all the rest of your paper and recycled at yet another paper mill. Your corruhated boxes (the kind a new fridge comes in) are sorted from the rest and recycled separately, as well. 
• Office paper collected at drop-offs and from businesses is dumped on the floor, baled and shipped for recycling, separate from all other paper. 
• Once baled, recyclables are stacked near the loading dock to await shipping. Bales of recyclables material are loaded into semi-trailers. Trucks are weighed, so they are not too heavy to be on the road as they travel to "market." Material is shipped to paper mills, plastic or glass recycler and metal foundries. 

RRRASOC

Recycling Directory: https://example.recollect.net/example/wizard/RRRASOC

Updated Recycling Guidelines: https://www.rrrasoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Final-Recycling-Guidelines-12-1-21-print.pdf

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.