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

Section 102-91 tells occupants of single-family and two- to four-unit residences in Sheboygan how to prepare each material they must separate under section 102-87. Most items follow one pattern: prepared and placed in a department of public works-issued recycling container, at the location specified in section 102-44, at the time specified in section 102-45. That covers aluminum containers, bi-metal containers, glass containers, magazines, newspaper, office paper, and steel containers, which must be clean and empty. Corrugated paper or other container board must be flattened and reduced first.

Three items go elsewhere. Foam polystyrene packaging is covered by a statewide variance from the Department of Natural Resources, so it is placed in the issued refuse container instead. Other plastic containers outside the listed resin codes are also under a statewide variance and go in the refuse container. Waste tires are delivered to a commercial hauler or other location that accepts waste tires.

Subsection (i) sorts rigid plastics by resin. Plastic containers made of PET with SPI code #1 are accepted with screw tops only and must be clean and empty. HDPE natural and color bottles with SPI code #2 must be clean and empty. Plastic containers made of PP with SPI code #5, and their lids, must be clean and empty. Each goes in the recycling cart at the section 102-44 location at the section 102-45 time.

Related sections add cart-level rules. Section 102-89 calls for separated materials, to the greatest extent practicable, to be clean and kept free of contaminants such as food or product residue and oil or grease. Section 102-44(b) requires the lid to be fully closed, and sections 102-44(b) and 102-49 both bar separately bagging recyclables inside the cart, because a bagged cart is not suitable for collection and is handled under section 102-2(a). Section 102-49 puts recycling pickup for residential buildings of four or fewer living units on schedules determined by the department of public works.