Waukesha ends weekly pickup of recyclables

Jan. 11, 2010
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By Laurel Walker of the Journal Sentinel

Jan. 11, 2010 0

Waukesha - Waukesha residents will get their recyclables collected every other week beginning next Monday, as a cost-savings measure.

The move could backfire, however, if residents instead throw their recyclables into the trash during the off-weeks because the city would have to pay more for disposing of them in a landfill.

Pick-ups will still occur on the same day as residents' regular garbage collection - just not as often.

Anyone who needs an extra blue bin for holding recyclables can get one during regular business hours at the city hall annex, 130 Delafield St., or on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the city's recycling drop-off center, 750 Sentry Drive.

Occasional excess recyclables can also be put out in a cardboard box marked "recycle."

A map and calendar showing which half of the city has recyclables collected during which weeks of the month is available on the city's web site, at www.ci.waukesha.wi.us. Information is also available by calling the city's engineering department at (262) 524-3600.

About Laurel Walker
Laurel Walker covered local, school and county government for 20 years -- the last half of that at the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- before she was named Waukesha County columnist in 1997. Today she writes about the people, places and events around metropolitan Milwaukee with a broad suburban focus. She was the youngest of nine children raised on a central Wisconsin farm before leaving the nest for journalism studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a masters degree at the University of Oregon. She has spent the last half of her life in Waukesha County, where she and her husband raised two sons. Though she has a fondness for life in Waukesha, she eagerly partakes in the culture of the big city to the east and the recreation of the forests to the west. With sons in the arts, she has a special fondness for symphonic music concerts and art museums. She finds peace in a good book at a Northwoods getaway weekend, adventure in family visits to the east and west coasts, and satisfaction in a column well-written that reaches readers.
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