Tosa Green Summit

Be sure to come and see us this Saturday at the Tosa Community Fair! And visit the other 100 amazing community groups and small businesses!

Plastic Free MKE is a Tosa Green Summit exhibitor. Please help them out if you can.

Plastic-Free MKE is collecting reusable bags for the Coalition on the Lead Emergency’s Lead Safe & Health Homes Project Cooking with COLE classes

Our drop-off site is at the School of Freshwater Sciences (600 E. Greenfield Ave.) on...

⏰June 4th from 5:00-7:00 pm
OR
⏰June 20th from 7:00-9:00 am

🍎We cannot accept any single-use or disposable bags and keep in mind that COLE will fill them with fresh produce and give them to the families in their classes

🛑Please do not purchase new bags to donate; our goal is to give new life to bags not currently being used

Plant sale TODAY May 17 and May 18. Fundraiser to end MS. Best deal around!

Electronics recycling event May 18

Not only will we have a nice variety of plants at our sale, our "Monarch Mercantile" will have an assortment of butterfly themed items and gifts for that special Mother/person in your life!

Textile recycling drive May 11!

Home hazmat collection May 4!

Liquid ni****ne? Rechargeable batteries in v**e pens? They’re hazardous wastes that need proper disposal, and a garbage can is NOT the answer.

You can safely dispose of household chemicals at the one-day collection at Augustine Prep (Formerly Cardinal Stritch University, 6801 N Yates Rd, Fox Point, WI 53217) on Saturday, May 4, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

It's FREE to visit, and you don't even have to get out of your car. This event is for Milwaukee County residents (no businesses). For a list of things you can and cannot bring, visit: https://www.mmsd.com/about-us/news/mobile-household-hazardous-waste-collection-augustine-prep

Happy Earth Day from the Tosa Green Summit! Do something nice for our planet! There are 2 great local recycling events coming up this Saturday 4/27, one for paper shredding and one for meds. See posts below!

is just a week away! But don’t worry, cleaning out your medicine cabinet takes just a few minutes. Sharing this post takes seconds too. Just a small effort can have a huge impact!

We have TWO locations for disposal on Saturday, April 27, 9 am to 12 pm:

Wauwatosa Police Department - Public Parking lot
1700 N 116 St
-OR-
Medical College of Wisconsin - Circle Drive
8701 Watertown Plank Rd

Keep them safe, clean them out, take them back!

Check out one of our members upcoming events! Reach out to [email protected] with any questions!

Rain Garden Plant Sale Now Open The MMSD Spring Rain Garden Plant Sale is now OPEN! Help protect Lake Michigan by ordering rain garden plants for up to 50% off retail.

We are busy planning this year's Tosa Green Summit and wanted to share our dates and a couple changes:

1. Saturday Sept. 7, 7 am to 2 pm, MMSD household hazardous waste collection (Milw County residents only) at the Wauwatosa Public Works Yard (enter off Watertown Plank and 113th St). Note this is a new location to alleviate traffic backups. The City of Wauwatosa Drop Off Center will also be open that day as usual from 7:30 to 4 (Wauwatosa residents only)

2. Saturday Sept. 14 at Wauwatosa City Hall (76th and North): exhibits in the lower civic center from 10 am to 1 pm and recycling in the parking lot from 8 am to 1 pm (shredding, meds, textiles, bikes, scrap metal and donations to Tosa Cares)

As a reminder, you can always bring your hazardous waste any day to MMSD's 3 permanent collection sites: https://www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/home-haz-mat-collection
and your electronics to RD Refrigerant Depot's permanent site at 5311 S 9th St https://appliancerecycling.net/electronic-recycling

Refrigerant Depot, LLC Refrigerant Depot, LLC is dedicated to protecting the environment and all of earth's valuable resources through recycling of unwanted appliances and proper disposal of refrigerants.

Do you have old or broken holiday lights? Don't throw them away!

Bring them to one of our permanent Household Hazardous Waste Collection sites to be disposed of properly. It's FREE to visit MMSD's Home HazMat Collection Centers, and you don't have to get out of your car.

For Milwaukee County residents ONLY (no businesses). For locations, hours, and a list of things you can and cannot bring, visit: https://www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/home-haz-mat-collection

Very helpful advice on recycling after this gift giving holiday season. Note the comments on string lights and wrapping paper. And you can always get questions answered on waste wizard wauwatosa.net/wizard

Quiz time. What holiday item can you recycle? It's a tricky one!

Technically, an egg nog carton is the only item on this list that can go in your regular recycling.

String lights can be recycled at a special collection site. The Milwaukee County Zoo is offering a free collection box through January 7. Some local hardware stores may also collect string lights.

Most wrapping paper is not recyclable.

Popcorn strings can go in the garbage.

What other holiday items are you curious about? Use wauwatosa.net/wizard to type in the name of an item to see if it can go in recycling, garbage, or compost.

We also encourage you to consider what items might be repurposed or upcycled.

As we near the end of 2023, I wanted to report some very impressive stats from this year's summit, held last September. In addition to over 200 attendees visiting our 24 exhibits and 2 breakout presentations, our recycling collections kept the following out of our landfills:

- 41,497 lbs household hazardous waste
- 21,784 lbs electronics
- 4300 lbs scrap metal
- 10,720 lbs shredded paper
- 4891 lbs textiles
- 185 lbs medicine
- 35 bikes

Plus half a ga***rd bag of toothbrushes and empty toothpaste tubes and several carloads of nonperishable food and personal care items

As a reminder, you can always bring your hazardous waste any day to MMSD's 3 permanent collection sites: https://www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/home-haz-mat-collection

and your electronics to RD Refrigerant Depot's permanent site at 5311 S 9th St https://appliancerecycling.net/electronic-recycling

And after opening your gifts next week, remember to put the wrapping paper in your GREEN garbage cart (NOT recycling) www.wauwatosa.net/wizard

Happy holidays!

Collection Services | Wauwatosa, WI We provide a number of collection services to Wauwatosa residents. See your refuse, yard, or recycling collection schedule online.

Do you have bad gas or oil sitting around? Are old lawn and garden chemicals collecting dust?

Please help us keep household chemicals out of our drinking water and the environment and drop them off at a FREE MMSD's Home HazMat Collection Center.

Milwaukee County residents ONLY (no businesses). For locations, hours, and a list of items you can bring: https://www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/home-haz-mat-collection

As our temps have suddenly stopped, learn how to be energy efficient and get a free energy kit!

Great energy and money saving deals from Focus on Energy!

Focus On Washing Away Messy Summer Treats

One day home haz mat collection
1-Day Drop Off | Next Event October 14
Drop off your household chemicals at the Milwaukee DPW Parking Lot (3850 N 35th St, Milwaukee, WI 53216)
https://www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/home-haz-mat-collection

Getting all set up to take your stuff. We open at 8

TGS continues this Saturday 9/16, 8 am to 1 pm, Wauwatosa City hall, with recycling for hazardous waste (Milwaukee County residents only), scrap metal and electronics.

IMPORTANT UPDATES!

TVs and computer monitors will now be charged $10, cash only, still a great deal (wood console TVs and projection TVs $30)

A/C Units and dehumidifiers will NOT be collected

More great coverage from TMJ4. Great job Rob Zimmerman, who chairs Wauwatosa’s Sustainability Committee!

Tosa Green Summit encourages people to take action, offers tips At the 13th annual Tosa Green Summit Saturday organizers hoped to make a lasting impression by helping people keep clothing, paper, medicine and even, toothbrushes out of the area’s landfill.

Fox6 did a great story on a very successful Day 1 of the Tosa Green Summit. Special thanks to our hard working traffic volunteers: Kathy Ehley, Alderwoman Melissa Dolan, Patrick Dolan and Kevan Oberdorf; and our Wisconsin Lutheran College students Valerie and Sunny who interviewed our vendors, presenters and recyclers

Tosa Green Summit encourages sustainability The Tosa Green Summit focused on saving money and reducing the community's environmental impact Saturday, Sept. 9.

Todays Green Summit was very well attended—24 exhibitors, 2 presenters and six collections. Thank you for your participation!

Tomorrow, Saturday, 9/9, is the day. Wauwatosa City Hall. Tosa Green Summit Day 1.

Recycle paper, meds, textiles, bikes, toothbrush/toothpaste tubes, donate to Tosa Cares, 8 am to 1 pm, parking lot

24 exhibitors: land, water, food, energy, transit and more, 10 am to 1 pm, lower civic center

2 presentations in the upper civic center:
- 11 am, Eddie Daniel, A Wealth of Nature
- Noon, Jason Blasiola, Recycling Update

LEARN.......DO! See you there!

New this year at TGS are presentations in the Upper Civic Center by 2 exceptional people. Let's provide them a large and engaged audience!

At 11 am
- Wauwatosa naturalist, photographer and author Eddie Daniel will share his experiences with "A Wealth of Nature: A Visual Tour of Local Parks and Natural Areas". He will also have copies of his books for sale.

At Noon
- Operations Superintendent for the City of Wauwatosa DPW Jason Blasiola will provide a "Wauwatosa Recycling Update”