Johns Disposal provides garbage and recycling collection for the City of Stoughton. Half of the city is collected on Tuesday’s and the other half on Friday. Click the link below to see your collection schedule day. If you have larger items that will not fit in your cart, utilize the improved Bulky Pick-up program.
Click here for the Collection Schedule.
Garbage and Recycling Bin Placement:
All garbage and recycling bins should be placed at least 3 to 5 feet off the edge of the pavement, into your driveway, so that they are out of the way.
Please do not place garbage or recycling bins in the street - this creates a hazard as they could get hit by vehicles, taken away by a snowplow or in the way of the city street sweepers.
Recycle Collection Every Other Week
Loose recycling must fit in the green (recycling) cart. Automated trucks can not pick up any material that is next to the cart. Please put the recycle cart out the night before your collection day or by 6:00 am the morning of pick up. If your green recycle cart is out on the wrong week it can not be collected!
Please place in Green Recycle Cart:
Recyclable Containers include
Aluminum cans and foil
Empty tin cans and aerosol cans
Dried out paint cans
Glass bottles and jars
#1-7 plastic containers
Mixed Paper
Newspaper, magazines, books, mail, school/office paper
Brown corrugated cardboard
Grey chipboard (cereal and shoe boxes)
Brown paper bags
Shredded Paper
Please put in a clear plastic bag (tied) and place in the GREEN cart. NO OTHER RECYCLING SHOULD BE IN BAGS
Do not put the following items in the green cart:
Plastic bags, toys, styrofoam of any kind
Plastic (other than #1-7 containers)
Yard waste and construction materials
Household hazardous waste
Single Use Plastic Bags can be returned to Walmart or Pick N’ Save or donated to St. Vincent de Paul.
Size of bins - Garbage - 64 gallons & Recycling - 96 gallons
Is one container not enough? You can rent additional carts directly from John’s!
ADDITIONAL MONTHLY CART RENTAL FROM JOHN’S
Garbage carts ($7.35/month)
Recycle carts ($5.65/month)
You must call John’s Disposal at 262-473-4700 to do so and they will help you get this set up along with the payment that would be made directly to John’s.
For Stoughton residents that have John’s Disposal as their solid waste collector, please call 262-473-4700 to schedule your bulk item collection. The ‘bulk-on-call’ program offers more flexibility to choose when you want your bulk items collected. Whenever you have bulk items to disposed of, simply call Johns Disposal to schedule a pick up.
E-waste can now be disposed of curbside as part of your bulky collection fee. You must call John’s Disposal at 262-473-4700 to schedule a collection. See the E-waste section for more details.
Extra paper or recycling should be in clear plastic bags and placed next to the recycling bin.
Bulk Collection does not include yard waste or hazardous materials.
Hazardous Materials (partially full cans of paint, paint thinner, cleaning materials, pesticides, ignitable, non-empty aerosols, etc.) must be taken to a Clean Sweep location, like the one at the Dane County Highway Garage located at 7102 US Highway 12.
Packing materials (packing peanuts, silver foam bags, air bags) can be taken to the UPS Store in Stoughton. Many people also use social media groups to give moving boxes and packing materials to others in the community that are looking for them.
Batteries
AA, AAA, C, D - All alkaline batteries can go in the regular garbage - i.e. these are landfill approved items.
Li-Ion, Li-Poly batteries must be recycled and can be taken to some big box stores like Lowe’s or Home Depot. These are the most dangerous batteries and can never go in the carts or an automated/compaction truck. These types of batteries can easily cause fires, even if they are fully discharged.
Johns Disposal will now collect E-waste curbside as part of your bulky collection fee. You must Call John’s Disposal at 262-473-4700 to schedule your E-waste collection. You are allowed two electronic collections per year. You can place one electronic item out per use. Each electronic collection will take the place of your monthly bulky collection. For example, you are allowed 12 bulky collections per year (1 per month), if you use an E-waste collection in March, that would take the place of that months bulky item collection. You can do this twice per year.
The City of Stoughton Public Works Department will still offer electronics recycling during normal business hours. A $15 fee will apply for TV’s, Computer Monitors, laptops and I-pads if you dispose of it at the Public Works Facility. Residents are encouraged to take advantage of the curbside collection program which is part of your annual Trash and Recycling fee. This service is available to city residents only. Please do not leave items outside of the door when the office is closed as the area will be monitored for illegal dumping. City residents will need to check in at the Public Works Department office located at 2439 County Highway A and show ID to verify city residency. If there are questions please contact us at (608) 873-6303.
Acceptable Items include desktop computers, laptops, printers, scanners, copiers, fax machines, keyboards, mice, hard drives, flash drives, external modems, routers & other computer devices, cordless phones, DVD players, VCRs, BlueRay players, televisions ($15 fee per television), and monitors ($15 fee per monitor). All items (other than those noted) are free to recycle if you are a resident inside the City of Stoughton Municipal Boundary.
NOTE: With computers make sure to remove all personal information or take out the hard drive and destroy it.
Unacceptable items include microwaves and dehumidifiers
Questions and Cart Repair
Questions Regarding Trash, Recycling, E-waste Collection Collection or for Cart Repair Please Contact John’s Disposal.
262-473-4700
Light Bulb Recycle Program
We’ve partnered with Logistics Recycling so that your bulbs and lamps are disposed of properly and do not end up in the landfills.
We are offering your FIRST SIX FREE for most of the bulbs we are able to accept. See the list below for more details.
To recycle your bulbs, please bring them to the Stoughton Public Works Facility located at 2439 County Rd A. Bring your bulbs in an easily transferable box or tote. Broken bulbs will not be accepted.
