Sheboygan, WI Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

Section 102-87 is the separation mandate in Sheboygan's recycling article (Chapter 102, Article III). It applies to three groups at once: occupants of single-family and two- to four-unit residences, multifamily dwellings, and non-residential facilities and properties. Each must separate the following from postconsumer waste: lead acid batteries, major appliances, waste oil, yard waste, aluminum containers, bi-metal containers, corrugated paper or other container board, foam polystyrene packaging, glass containers, magazines, newspaper, office paper, rigid plastic containers made of PETE, HDPE, PVC, LDPE, PP, PS, and other resins, steel containers, and waste tires.

Section 102-88 carves out three exemptions. The first covers occupants that send postconsumer waste to a processing facility licensed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources that recovers the listed materials in as pure a form as is technically feasible. The second covers solid waste burned as a supplement fuel at a facility where less than 30 percent of the heat input comes from that waste. The third covers a material in items (5) through (15) for which the Department of Natural Resources has granted a variance under Wis. Stats. § 287.11(2m) or Wis. Admin. Code NR 544.14 that is in effect at the time of collection.

Section 102-89 calls for separated materials, to the greatest extent practicable, to be clean and free of contaminants such as food or product residue, oil or grease, household hazardous waste, medical waste, and agricultural chemical containers, and stored so they are protected from wind, rain, and other inclement weather. Section 102-94 forbids disposing of in a solid waste disposal facility, or burning in a solid waste treatment facility, the materials in items (5) through (15) once separated for recycling, except that waste tires can be burned with energy recovery.

Owners carry extra duties. Under section 102-92, owners or designated agents of multifamily dwellings must provide adequate, separate containers, notify tenants in writing at the time of renting or leasing and at least semi-annually, and provide for collection and delivery to a recycling facility. Section 102-93 places matching duties on owners or agents of nonresidential facilities and properties toward users, tenants, and occupants. How residents prepare each item for the curb is in section 102-91.