The Village and Town of Argyle does not provide curbside pickup of garbarge or recycling, and residents must bring their garbage and recycling to the Recycling Center located at 101 Mill Street, Argyle, WI 53504.
The Recycling Center is opened on:
- Wednesdays from 9 am to Noon and reopens from 4 pm to 7 pm
- Saturday from 8 am to 1 pm
The Recycling Center attendant is Gary McKibben, Gary can be reached via phone @ +1 (608) 576-2675.
All garbage must be bagged in a yellow Argyle garbage bag which can be purchased at the Recycling center for $2/bag or can also be purchased from the Library or Clerks’s Office located in the Argyle Community Building and at both of the banks in town. Please tie all bags shut to help prevent litter and pests
The Recycling Center accepts the following recyclables and seperated into the following groups for drop-off at the recycling center:
- #1 Plastic bottles including Soda, Water must be rinsed and lids removed (lids can be put in the single stream)
- #2 Plastic containers must be rinsed and seperated further into two groups as follows
- All milk jugs with lids removed (lids can be put in the single stream)
- All other #2 containers with lids removed (lids can be put in the single stream)
- Aluminum Cans
- Aluminum cans must be rinsed prior to recycling and seperate from other recycling.
- Corrugated Cardboard
- Cardboard must be cut into sheets and all staples and tape removed
- Flatboard and waxed or plastic coated cardboard can be put in with the single stream
- Single Stream (all containers must be rinsed and free of containaments prior to recycling)
- Household plastic containers numbered #3 through #7 (please see instructions above for #1 & #2)
- Tin Cans
- Glass Jars & Bottles
- Plastic Caps
- Paper / Books / Magazines
- Grocery bags
Additionally the recycling center accepts the following materials which can be dropped off for no charge:
- Metals, including aluminum, steel, copper, tin
- Scrap metal container available for larger pieces of metal.
The following items have a per piece charge:
- Appliances
- Stoves, Washers, Dryers, Microwaves, etc. – $10
- Fridges, Freezers, Air Conditioners, and others containing freon – $25
- Electronic Waste – 50¢/per lb.
- To be weighed by attendant
- Light Bulbs & Tubes
- Florescent Tubes
- 4 ft. – .50¢/per tube
- 8 ft. – $1/per tube
- Other Light bulbs – price determined by attendant
- Florescent Tubes
- Batteries: – price to be determined by attendant depending on bulb tube.
- Fluorescent Tubes
- All bulky oversized pickup loads – $30 minimum, priced determined by attendant.
No construction material or remodeling materials allow at this site.
Items banned from Landfills:
- Appliances, tires, used motor oil, lead acid batteries, wet paint, electronics (TV, computers, fax machines, DVD players, VCRs, DVRs) and yard waste.