2008 SCHEDULE
Solid waste dumping is available to Jasper County Residents Only. The site at Newton-Co. Hwy is open 7am to 3:30pm. Other sites open from 7:30 am to Noon. Rules for the dumpsters are as follows.
The Newton site, which is the County Highway Building, 1 1/4 mile NE of Newton, will be open three Saturdays a month. the time open for the Newton site is 7 am - 3:30 pm.All other sites will be open once a month starting at 7:30 am. If a dumpster is filled before 10:30 am another dumpster will be brought to the site. These sites will be open until noon or when the dumpster is filled after 10:30 am.
Appliances are being accepted
only at the Newton site, the County Highway Building, on the Saturdays the Newton site is open. The appliances, which are recycled, are to be placed in a dumpster reserved for appliances only. Either the compressor must be removed or the Freon line opened to show Freon has been properly removed from the refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, etc. Appliances are not being accepted at the other collection sites.
One dumpster at the Newton site is reserved for metal only. The metal collected in it is recycled. A drop-off recycle container accepting aluminum cans, clear glass bottles, tin cans, plastic milk jugs, plastic soap jugs, and plastic soda bottles is also available at the Newton site.
No yard waste (grass, leaves, and limbs) will be accepted at the dumpsters since these items were banned from the Illinois landfills effective July 1, 1990. No tires or asbestos materials will be accepted.
