VILLAGE OF NEW
Spring 2011
RECYCLING NEWS
Bring your sorted recyclables along
with your garbage to the Village dumpster site located at
1. Garbage
2. Cardboard and paper, ALL boxes must be collapsed and flattened before disposal.
3. Commingled: plastic, glass, aluminum cans, and tin
cans
Please watch when dumping so you
use the correct dumpster, the recycle dumpsters are
labeled on the front. No plastic bags in recyclables. Please refer
to the back of this sheet for additional recycling information.
APPLIANCE DAY
Appliance
Recycling Day, is being scheduled for a Saturday in May see future posted notice. Some appliance charges are:
refrigerator-microwave-washer-dryer-stove-dishwasher $10; air conditioner-TV $15;
laptop $9; monitor $7; VCR $6.
LEAF AND BRUSH PICKUP
Leaves
and Grass Clippings - Public
Works employees will pickup at curbside on Monday’s starting April 11 to October 24, 2011. Residents
are reminded that leaves must be in containers, boxes, or plastic bags, and to
limit each container contents to 50 pounds or less.
Brush – will be chipped by a local vendor. To expedite the chipping process, branches
should be piled large end curbside. Brush chipping is scheduled from May
through September. Any brush chipping taking longer than 15 minutes will be
charged back to the resident. The schedule for 2011 is pending, more
information will be posted.
DEMOLITION MATERIALS
Disposal of demolition materials is the responsibility
of the owner. Roll off containers can be
obtained from local disposal companies such as Waste Management, Inc.
1-800-782-7347. From time to time there
may be room to add small amounts
of demolition materials to the dumpster at the end of the collection day.
NEW
Please consider donating your aluminum cans to the New
Auburn Park Fund. A collection site is at the dumpster site. All money raised
from this fundraiser is used for improvements and playground equipment at the
Village Parks. Please contact the Village
Clerk at 237-2223 with questions.
FIRE SAFETY (BURNING) PERMITS
Burning permits are required for burning such
materials as brush, leaves, scrap lumber or similar material, on your own
premises, if you have space to do so (30 feet from any building, etc.) It is unlawful to use burn barrels or
incinerators for burning garbage, at any time.
Permits are issued by an officer of the New Auburn Area Fire Department,
phone 237-2065.
WI passed a new law regarding electronic
recycling. Under the law, manufacturers
of covered electronic devices (CEDs) – including
computers, televisions, printers and certain video display devices – will be
responsible for financing and ensuring the recycling of these and other electronic
devices within the state. Please ask your vendor.
STATISTICS
VILLAGE OF NEW
IT’S AS EASY AS 1…2…3… (Simply separate recyclables into two basic categories)
1. Place NEWSPAPER, MAGAZINES, PHONE BOOKS, CATALOGS, OFFICE PAPER, JUNK MAIL, GRAY CARDBOARD, CORRUGATED CARDBOARD, in the paper recycling bin.
2. Place STEEL/TIN CANS, ALUMINUM CANS, GLASS BOTTLES AND JARS, AND PLASTIC BOTTLES in the Commingle recycling bin.
VILLAGE TIP: Separate ALUMINUM CANS, they can be donated to the New Auburn Park Fund whose fund raising efforts are used for park improvements and playground equipment; OR they too can be recycled.
Recyclables can be dropped off at the dumpster site located between the Village Hall and the Fire Hall, along with your garbage.
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PREPARATION TIPS . . .
· Rinse cans, jars, and bottles – recyclables are not stored in plastic bags, rinsing reduces the odor and reduces the number of insects that are drawn to the decaying food.
·
Metal food cans, and aerosol cans (remove
plastic caps). Labels do not need to be
removed. (Labels such as
· Glass bottles and jars (green, brown, and clear) (remove caps, rinse clean, and do not break). Labels do not need to be removed. DO NOT include plate glass or windows, mirror glass, ceramics, cookware, drinking glasses or light bulbs.
· Plastic bottles and milk jugs (collapse bottle, rinse and remove caps) include #1 and #2, commonly found on bottom of soda bottles, milk jugs, detergent bottles, etc.. DO NOT include motor oil containers. (Milk caps are used for fund raising by local schools, recycle them too!)
· Corrugated cardboard and gray cardboard should be collapsed flat and cut into 3 ft x 3 ft pieces.
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DO
· Please contact your local schools and non-profit organizations for donation possibilities. Certain product labels, milk caps, printer cartridges, etc. provide many fund raising opportunities for them. Non-recyclable bowls and magazines may be used by various classes for craft projects.
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WHITE GOODS (refrigerator, stove,
microwave, televisions, etc.) may be collected on a pre-arranged basis with
Waste Management, Inc. phone 1-800-782-7347; or the
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING RECYCLING COLLECTION OR SUGGESTIONS ON IMPROVING RECYCLING, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CALL THE VILLAGE CLERK AT 237-2223 OR WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC. AT 1-800-782-7347.
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Waste Tire Program – information phone 715-726-7999.
Household Hazardous Waste
Clean Sweep is scheduled on Saturday, April 30 from 8 a.m. to Noon from 8
a.m. to Noon at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds,
Fluorescent Bulb Collection
Program - local hardware stores provide a bulb collection program for a
small fee. Gordy’s
True Value Hardware and
Revised 4-7-2011