5 rules for unincorporated Rock County, Wisconsin.
Verified from official government sources
Rock County does not run residential curbside collection. Pickup is municipal: the City of Janesville collects trash and recycling from single-family and 2-to-4-unit homes with city carts, and other cities, villages and private haulers set their own schedules. Check your municipality for your day.
Rock County sets no countywide bin set-out rule. When and where to place carts at the curb, and how soon to remove them, are decided by your city, village or hauler. Janesville requires carts placed at the curb on your collection day per its city solid-waste program.
For appliances, furniture, tires and other bulky items, Rock County residents use municipal bulk pickup and the Rock County/Janesville Sanitary Landfill and drop-off sites. Janesville offers appliance, tire and metal drop-offs; disposal fees apply. The county's Clean Sweep program handles household hazardous waste.
Wisconsin law bans specific recyclables from the trash statewide, so Rock County residents must separate them. Wis. Stat. 287.07 prohibits disposing of aluminum, glass, steel and plastic containers, cardboard, newspaper, magazines and office paper in a landfill or incinerator.
Wis. Stat. 287.07(4)
Beginning on January 1, 1995, no person may dispose of in a solid waste disposal facility, convert into fuel, or burn at a solid waste treatment facility in this state any of the following: an aluminum container; corrugated paper or other container board; foam polystyrene packaging; a glass container; a magazine; a newspaper; office paper; a plastic container; a steel container.
Illegal dumping is a state crime everywhere in Rock County. Under Wis. Stat. 287.81, depositing solid waste on any highway, waters, or public or private property brings a forfeiture up to $500, rising to $1,000 for large items like appliances, furniture, tires or building debris.
Wis. Stat. 287.81(2), (2m)
No person may deposit or discharge any solid waste on or along any highway, in any waters of the state, on the ice of any waters of the state or on any other public or private property. A person who violates this subsection may be required to forfeit not more than $500; a person who deposits a large item may be required to forfeit not more than $1,000.
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