Clean & Green Middleton

Clean & Green Middleton

April 24, 2010

9:00 am to 1:00 pm

In the Former Sentry Parking Lot (corner of Maywood Ave. and Allen Blvd.) next to Middleton Springs Ace Hardware

The City of Middleton is making your spring cleaning easy, fun and green. The City of Middleton will help you with your spring cleaning during Earth Week. Drop off donations for local charities and properly recycle household items in one single location.

In addition local vendors will be on hand supplying valuable coupons, demonstrating sustainable products, and providing information on home energy efficiency. And you can buy rain barrels and water conservation kits from Sustain Dane.

Important: Please check the details for what is and is not being accepted because there are some things that by law cannot be accepted. Clean & Green Middleton is an event put on by the City to make disposal of unwanted items convenient and easy and to keep our community a great place to live. The process is to recycle or donate everything possible.

Donate the following at no cost to you:

Clothing, Household goods, Furniture : St. Vincent de Paul
Durable medical equipment : Kiwanis of Middleton
Printer cartridges : Kromrey Middle School
Eye glasses : Middleton Lion’s Club
Cell phones, iPods, laptops, digital cameras : Middleton Senior Center
Hardcover & Paperback Books : Friends of Middleton Public Library
Used CFLs (no tubes) : Ace Hardware
Appliances: if less than 10 years old and in 100% working condition they will go to Habitat Restore, if not they go in the Pellitteri metal recycling dumpster.
Batteries of all types
Plastic bags : Copps
Scrap metal : Pellitteri recycling dumpster
Gas powered lawn mowers (must be empty of gas and oil): Pellitteri recycling dumpster
Cabinets, Doors, Windows, Electrical, Plumbing, Flooring, Hardware, Lumber, Lighting, Architectural items, etc.: Habitat ReStore has requirements for what they will take. Please click here for their list of requirements. If your items don’t fit the requirements, and we can’t recycle them, they can be put in the Pellitteri bulk-item dumpster.
Electronics Recycling (you pay a discounted fee of 25¢/lb)

Computers, computer accessories, TVs, cell phones and other electronics contain harmful materials including lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, other heavy metals and chemical flame retardants. When landfilled, incinerated or illegally dumped, these chemicals can leach into the environment, where they may affect human and environmental health.

It is also important to recycle electronics because of the valuable reusable materials they contain, including plastics, metals, circuit boards and others. Recycling or reusing these materials reduces environmental impacts and economic costs by reducing the need for virgin materials in new electronics.

File 13 will take all types of electronics at Clean & Green Middleton and this is only a small fraction of what they take. File 13 does not export or landfill E-Waste. They ship exclusively to a licensed, bonded, regulated, and specifically permitted U.S. processing facility . All hard drives are physically destroyed or data wiped using Department of Defense approved software.

Computers, Monitors, Printers, Peripherals
Televisions, VCRs, DVD players
Stereo equipment
Home thermostats
Smoke detectors
Carbon monoxide detectors
CDs, DVDs, diskettes, videocasettes
Household electronics including microwaves, vacuums, power tools, toaster oven, mixers, etc.
Bulk-item Trash Drop off & Metal Recycling

Pellitteri has teamed-up with Clean & Green Middleton to provide its bulk item drop off at the event. For any items that can’t be donated or recycled and don’t fit into your new trash cart, Pellitteri will have dumpsters on-site for you to dispose of your trash without the pick-up fee.

Pellitteri is collecting bulk-item trash and metal recycling in its dumpsters. Standard recyclable materials such as cardboard, plastics #1-7, glass, paper, newspaper, tin and aluminum beverage containers should be put in your blue recycling containers for regular curbside collection.

Collection at Clean & Green Middleton includes:

White goods (appliances)
Furniture that not accepted by St. Vincent de Paul at the event
Large items
Tires
Construction/Demolition/Remodeling Waste
Roofing
Siding
Basement cleanouts
The following cannot be put into the dumpsters because of disposal laws:

Biological hazards, including needles
Explosives
Electronics (These need to be recycled properly. File 13 is involved in the event and is offering a reduced fee of $.25 per lb.)
Yard Waste (Grass, Leaves, Brush)
Fluorescent light bulbs/fixtures (Ace Hardware is on hand to recycle them)
Drums (containers)
Hazardous Waste (needs to go to Dane County Clean Sweep at 2302 Fish Hatchery Road, opens May 1), includes:
Liquid paint
Gases
Poisons
Corrosives
Pesticides
Herbicides
Chemicals, including pool chemicals
Solvents