Household Hazardous Waste & Electronics Collections

2010 Dates Announced

May 15th (Maple City)

July 24th (Suttons Bay)

September 18th (Peshawbestown)

Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) and Electronics Collections will be held on three Saturdays in 2010. The collections are for Leelanau County Households ONLY.  RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR PARTICIPATION.  Please contact the Planning Department at (231)256-9812 to register for the collection. 

Click here for a flyer of accepted items.

The Leelanau County programs are county-wide and established for household use for such things as:  drop-off recycling, collections for electronics recycling and collections for household hazardous waste. 

Recycling drop-off sites are currently available to residents 24 hours/day, 7 days/week at these sites:  Cedar, Greilickville, Village of Suttons Bay, Peshawbestown, Lake Leelanau, Village of Northport, Village of Empire, & Leelanau Schools in Glen Arbor.

Materials Collected:   There is one bin at each site for cardboard and paper; one bin for tin and plastic, and a smaller bin for glass (clear and colored).   Plastics collected at the sites are #1, #2 and #5. 

What kind of plastic do I have?  Turn it over and look for the recycling logo on the bottom and the number inside the logo.  If it is a #1, #2, or #5, you can recycle it at the sites in Leelanau County.  Plastics with a #1 or #2 include water bottles, detergent bottles, fruit drink bottles, milk jugs, and juice containers.  Plastics with a #5 include yogurt containers, cottage cheese containers, sour cream containers, etc.  HOWEVER, regardless of the number, do not put motor oil containers in the bins - even if they are clean!

Rinse, and flatten materials as much as possible.  PLASTIC BAGS and CLAM SHELL CONTAINERS can NOT be recyled at this time - regardless of the numbers on them.  (Clam shell containers are plastic containers generally used to hold deli sandwiches, hard-boiled eggs, vegetables/dip, etc.  They open up like a 'clam'.)

The county programs are designed for household use only. Leelanau County encourages businesses to make other arrangements for their recyclable waste (cardboard in particular) and to limit the use of the bins to household materials, only.  Business waste will not be accepted at HHW collections.

If you have questions, contact Leelanau County Planning and Community Development at 256-9812 or toll free at 866-256-9711, Ext. 6.