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Refuse and Recycling
New Contract Information (posted December
2, 2005)
Letter sent to residents
Brochure
Refuse and Recycling
 Weekly garbage service for single
family residential areas is provided by the Village’s contracted
waste hauler, Waste Management. Refuse and recyclables are collected
every Thursday. Plastic refuse bags and durable metal or plastic
cans with handles are acceptable containers for refuse.
To
sign up for refuse and recycling service, contact Waste Management
at
1-800-796-9696.
Waste Management Yard Waste Collection
Waste Management’s Yard Waste collection program starts at the
beginning of April and continues until the end of November. If you
previously subscribed, you do not have to call and re-subscribe for
the upcoming season. Waste Management will be sending out notices
along with invoices to cover the cost of this optional program. If
you do not want this service, you will have 30 days to contact Waste
Management and cancel. If you did not subscribe last year and wish
to have this service, you will need to call Waste Management and
sign up.
Many
people mulch their grass clippings and may not have much yard waste
to put out on a weekly basis. We have stickers available for
purchase for $1.80 each if you don’t have much yard waste and choose
to pay on a per-bag or per-can basis. These stickers are available
at Village Hall, Wauconda Police Department, and Ace Hardware in
Wauconda. Stickers may also be ordered directly from Waste
Management. We ask that you make sure that the stickers on the bags
or cans (painted with large red X’s) are visible to the street so
the drivers can identify what to pick up.
Please Note: Because refuse and yard waste are picked up on the same
day, we ask that if you use cans for your landscape yard waste
collection instead of the paper yard waste bags. Please mark (paint)
the cans containing yard waste with large red X’s. This will help
identify the landscape yard waste to the drivers so your pickup is
not inadvertently missed. WASTE MANAGEMENT’S YARD WASTE COLLECTION
IS NOT THE SAME SERVICE AS THE VILLAGE’S BRUSH SERVICE PROGRAM.
If
you have questions concerning the yard waste collection program,
please contact Waste Management directly at 1-800-796-9696.
Household Chemical Waste Disposal
 SWALCO (Solid Waste Agency of Lake County) provides solid waste
management programs to Lake County. These programs are aimed at
reducing our reliance on landfills through source reduction,
recycling and energy recovery.
In
general, SWALCO programs help residents dispose of problem wastes,
such as household chemical waste (HCW), electronic equipment, and
yard waste. Recycling programs are targeted at both commercial and
residential markets in order to divert as much solid waste as
possible from reaching landfills.
For
Disposal Guidelines:
SWALCO
Disposal Guide
Disposal of Medications and Personal Care Products
Wauconda Village Hall
101 N. Main Street
Wauconda, IL 60084
(847) 526-9600
Fax: (847) 526-8809
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