Residents determined to recycle in the coming weeks will need to drop off their blue plastic bags at the city yard after a weekend fire there knocked out the facility where recyclables are separated from the general trash collection before the garbage heads to the landfill, Bill Kappel, Wauwatosa's, WI director of public works, said today. Recyclables picked up during regular trash routes will go to the landfill -- if the state Department of Natural Resources grants a city exemption requested today -- until the transfer station operation can be restored, he said. A five-alarm fire late Saturday caused about $400,000 in damage to the refuse building at the yards, at 11300 W. Walnut St. More than 50 firefighters from seven communities responded. (Source: http://www.jsonline.com)
