Wisconsin Recycling Markets Directory Survey
This webpage is the online version of the Wisconsin Recycling Markets Directory survey. If you would like to have your firm listed in the next edition of the directory, please print out a copy of this webpage, fill the appropriate information in by hand, then return it to:
Department of Natural Resources
Waste and Materials Management Program
WA
PO Box 7921
Madison WI 53707-7921
We cannot accept electronic submissions of the survey at this time; however please feel free to fax the survey to us at:
(608) 267-2768, ATTN: WRMD
If you have questions, feel free to send email: DNR Waste Materials@Wisconsin.gov
Who are you?
Please complete the following contact information about your company. You must fill out this information so that we know who is returning this survey. This is your only identification on the survey, so if you do not include your company's information, you will not appear in the next edition of the Wisconsin Recycling Markets Directory (WRMD).
If you do not want your company listed in the WRMD, let us know. Please be sure to complete the contact information below and return the survey to us so that we know who you are.
- YES! Please list our firm in the Wisconsin Recycling
Markets Directory.
- We are currently listed. Please update us.
- We are a new listing. Please add us.
- We're not sure if our firm is listed.
- NO! Please do not list our firm in the Wisconsin Recycling Markets Directory because:
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Survey Instructions
The survey has been condensed this year, so please consider each section carefully before answering.
For each material category
To make the WRMD as accurate as possible, please respond to each material category listed in the survey.
Check each box to indicate which recyclable items your firm purchases or accepts.
If you do not accept a material, please leave the category blank and continue to the next category.
Firm Type
Please check the box or boxes that best describe your business.
- Broker: company or individual that consolidates and then sells materials to an end-market. A broker may buy
or accept materials from a company or individual without necessarily acting as a hauler.
- Manufacturer/End-user: a company that uses recyclables as raw materials to make new products.
- Processor/Reconditioner: a company that prepares a recyclable commodity for market in some way beyond baling.
- Recyclable collector/Hauler: provides collection from residential or business sectors.
- Other:___________________________________________________
Material Categories
Batteries
What types of
batteries do you recycle?
- Dry cell batteries
- Lead acid vehicle batteries
- Other lead acid batteries
- Other:___________________________________________________
Bulbs, Lamps & Ballasts
What types of
bulbs, lamps and ballasts do you recycle?
- Fluorescent bulbs
- HID lamps
- Incandescent lamps
- Lamp ballasts
- Other:___________________________________________________
Construction & Demolition Debris
What types of
construction and demolition debris do you recycle?
- Aluminum siding
- Architectural antiques
- Asphalt
- Brick / masonry
- Carpet
- Carpet pad
- Concrete
- Gas pipe / metal pipe
- Lumber
- Porcelain plumbing fixtures
- PVC pipe
- Site clearance wood debris
- Steel: structural or rebar
- Vinyl siding
- Wallboard / dryboard
- Windows
- Other:___________________________________________________
Electronics
What types of
Electronics equipment do you recycle?
- Data communications hardware: modems, internet gateway equipment
- Floppy disks
- Printers
- Toner cartridges
- Whole computers and peripherals
- Cell phones
- Televisions
- Other Electronics:___________________________________________________
Glass
What types of
glass do you recycle?
- Brown
- Clear
- Green
- Mixed cullet
- Blue
- Bora-silica: heat-resistant ovenware or glassware; laboratory glass
- Plate window glass
- Window glass
- Other:___________________________________________________
Industrial Materials
What types of
industrial materials do you recycle?
- Empty barrels and drums - metal
- Empty barrels and drums - plastic
- Fuel oil
- Heavy metal sludge
- High volume industrial materials: fly ash, foundry sand, paper mill sludge
- Industrial lubricants
- Solvents
- Other:___________________________________________________
What types of industrial plastics do you recycle?
- ABS: Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene
- Acetal
- Polycarbonate
- Purgings from extrusions
- Thermoset
- Other industrial plastics:___________________________________________________
Metals
What types of
metals do you recycle?
- Aluminum cans
- Amalgam
- Appliances before demanufacturing: hazardous materials like refrigerants, PCB-containing capacitors and ballasts,
mercury switches and compressor oils have NOT yet been removed and must be handled in compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Appliances after demanufacturing: clean scrap with refrigerants, PCB-containing capacitors and ballasts,
mercury switches and compressor oils previously removed
- Ferrous metals: iron and steel
- Nonferrous metals: aluminum, copper, brass, zinc, die-cast
- Lead
- Mercury and items containing mercury: thermometers, thermostats, etc.
- Steel cans, food / beverage
- Steel cans, paint / aerosol
- Other:___________________________________________________
Precious Metals
What types of
precious metals do you recycle?
- Catalytic converters (platinum)
- Computer circuit boards (gold)
- Gold
- Microfilm (silver)
- Palladium
- Photographic film (silver)
- Platinum
- Rhodium
- Ruthenium
- Silver
- Silver oxide batteries (silver)
- Other:___________________________________________________
Motor Vehicle Items
What types of
motor vehicle items do you recycle?
- Air bags
- Antifreeze
- Clean vehicle bodies from which airbags, batteries, fluids, gas tanks, mercury switches, refrigerants and tires have been removed
- Motor oil
- Oil filters
- Tires
- Vehicle bodies: you are legally permitted to remove airbags, batteries, fluids, gas tanks, mercury switches, refrigerants and tires
- Other:___________________________________________________
Organic Materials and/or Wood
What types of
organic materials and wood products do you recycle?
- Bark
- Brush
- Dunnage: wood crating used for shipping
- Food waste - residential / institutional
- Food waste - food processing residuals: e.g. from canning and freezing companies
- Leaves & grass
- Manure
- Sawdust
- Wood chips
- Yard and garden trimmings
- Other:___________________________________________________
Pallets
What types of
pallets do you recycle?
- Plastic
- Wood
- Other:___________________________________________________
Paper
What types of
paper do you recycle?
- Aseptic packaging
- Corrugated cardboard
- Magazines and catalogs
- Milk cartons: wax-coated paper
- Mixed office and residential: paper collected from either commercial or residential sources or both. May include boxboard, cardboard, catalogs, paper, magazines, newsprint, NCR forms, notebooks, office forms and stationary
- Mixed residential: paper collected from households. May include boxboard, cardboard, catalogs, coated and glossy paper, computer paper, copier paper, kraft paper, magazines, newsprint, packaging and stationary
- Newsprint
- Office paper - high grades
- Office paper - low grades
- Printers' waste
- Pulp substitutes
- Telephone directories
- Other:___________________________________________________
Plastics
What types of
plastics do you recycle?
- Antifreeze bottles, empty
- Buckets, five-gallon, empty
- Commingled resins
- Film/bags
- HDPE (high-density polyethylene) color, blow-molded
- HDPE natural, blow-molded
- HDPE color, injection-molded
- HDPE natural, injection-molded
- LDPE (low-density polyethylene)
- Motor oil bottles, empty
- Multilayer resins
- PET (polyethylene terephthalate)
- PP (polypropylene)
- PS (polystyrene), rigid
- PVC (polyvinyl chloride)
- Silage bags
- Stretch wrap/shrink wrap
- Other:___________________________________________________
Reusable Materials
What types of
reusable materials do you collect?
If you want to list materials under
Other, please make sure that they do not appear under a different material category. For instance, pallets, computer equipment, architectural building materials, metals and appliances (for demanufacturing) are all contained under separate categories. Do not include them under Other.
- Art materials
- Bar soap
- Books
- Building Materials
- Clothing
- Household furniture
- Office furniture
- Industrial materials
- Mattresses
- Office equipment (excluding computers)
- Paint, type:
- Polystyrene peanuts
- Surplus food
- Tools
- Other:___________________________________________________
Other Materials
What other materials do you recycle? This is your opportunity to list materials that are not included elsewhere in the survey.
- Diapers, cloth
- Diapers, disposable
- Leather scraps
- Propane tanks
- Rubber
- Textiles and rags, solvent- or oil-soaked
- Textiles and rags, clean
- Other:___________________________________________________
END OF THE SURVEY
PLEASE RETURN TO:
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
BUREAU OF WASTE & MATERIALS MANAGEMENT - WA
PO BOX 7921
MADISON WI 53707-7921
Or, FAX: (608) 267-2768
ATTN: WRMD
Last Revised: Thursday February 14 2008