Missaukee County Recycling Center
Saturdays, 9 am - 1 pm
Wednesdays, 2 pm - 6 pm
West Sanborn  Road (just past the Missaukee County Offices)
1/4 mile west of M-66 on the north side of the road

Materials Accepted
for Transfer

Acceptable Items

How to prepare

Newspapers

Newspaper print, glossy fliers in newspapers, telephone books

Place in boxes or bags, or tie in bundles with twine or string, do not mix with junk mail or magazines

Magazines

Magazines & catalogs

Keep separate from junk mail & newspapers

Junk Mail

Any clean paper - colored, lined, computer, shredded, envelopes, unwanted mail

Keep separate from junk mail & newspapers

***Boxboard & Corrugated Cardboard

Boxes - cereal, dry food, shoe, tissue, corrugated, paper bags, paper towel & toilet paper rolls

Remove & discard liners, cellophane and metal strips, flatten boxes

***Glass Jars & Bottles

No Glass is accepted at this time
Place in regular garbage until further notice

Wash, remove labels and caps

***#1 & #2 Plastic
(Says "1" or "2" on bottom)

Milk jugs, detergent & shampoo bottles, Only jugs and bottles

Wash, remove caps

Vinyl Siding

 PVC window profile cutoffs and vinyl siding

As clean as possible

Aluminum

Aluminum foil, pie & food trays, pop cans w/no deposit

Wash

Tin & Steel

Food cans

Wash, remove plastic lids, crush can & place steel lids inside crushed can

Egg Cartons

Clean & unbroken

Plastic Shopping Bags

Clean

Boat & shrink wrap

Blue boat wrap and shrink wrap used to wrap large items

Blue boat wrap and shrink wrap used to wrap large items

Clean

Clean

I-Phones, MP3, laptops, digital cameras, calculators

Any type of these products

No accessories

Old CD's & DVD's

Any type of CD & DVD

Do not bring cases

Large appliances:

Washers/dryers, refrigerators,
metal lawn furniture

Refrigerators must have Freon removed. Pell's Appliance & TV will take your old refrigerator if you purchase a new one from them or remove the Freon for a fee.
Call 775.3141 or 1.800.459.3434

Missaukee County Recycling Center Does NOT Accept

Credit cards in junk mail

Styrofoam

Paper towel, toilet paper

Aerosol cans

Window or plate glass, light bulbs  

Paint

Cookware, drinking glasses, dishes

Boxes that had food directly on them - frozen food,
ice cream, wax coated cartons

Vinyl, furniture, wood products

***Operation of the recycling center is possible because of Kiwanis, community volunteers, Missaukee County Sheriff Department Trustees and a USDA Rural Development Solid Waste Management Grant.

This material is based upon work supported under a grant by the Rural Utilities Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Any opinions, findings and conclusion or recommendations expressed in this material are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Rural Utilities Service.