Wauwatosa, WI Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

070, large bulky items such as discarded furniture, lumber, carpeting and household equipment that exceed the regular weekly cart's size and weight limits are collected only through a scheduled special pickup; the resident must notify the sanitation division in person, by phone or in writing before setting items at the curb or alley line, and discarded lumber, carpeting and similar large items must be cut to four-foot lengths and tied into bundles under fifty pounds. Items set out at the curb without prior notice are still collected, but the special charge is imposed anyway.

140 rather than this bulky-item pickup. Large quantities of demolition or remodeling debris, tree branches, earth, sod, stone or concrete require a custom-scheduled pickup for a fee, and materials generated by a contractor are not collected by the city at all. 130 caps residential curbside carts at two hundred pounds and reusable containers or paper bags at fifty pounds, and requires brush and branches to be cut to under four feet and tied with string or twine, never wire or plastic strapping, into bundles under fifty pounds; plastic bags for yard waste are strictly prohibited.

Outside the curbside collection season, brush under six inches in diameter can only go to the public works yard drop-off center at 11100 W. Walnut, where it must be deposited loose, not bagged, and grass clippings are barred from both curbside collection and the drop-off center entirely.