Junk Removal in Bristol, WI

Most of Bristol is rural lots and acreage spread out from the crossroads at Hwy 45 and Hwy 50, and properties with that much room tend to collect. Pole barns fill with old equipment parts, lumber and furniture that was going to be fixed. Sheds sit behind the house until the floor rots through. Nothing gets thrown out because there has always been somewhere else to put it.

When a farm property is sold, divided or handed down, all of that has to come out at once. We clear whole properties in stages if that is what the job needs - house first, then garage, then the outbuildings - and metal goes to scrap rather than a landfill. Long driveways and buildings set back from the road are no problem.

Closer to I-94 and the state line by the Renaissance Faire grounds, Bristol's village neighborhoods need the ordinary things taken - furniture, full garages, a dead hot tub on the deck. Paddock Lake and Salem Lakes are just to the west, Pleasant Prairie is to the east, and Antioch is across the line to the south.

Hauling on the Wisconsin side is not quite the same job as in Lake County, because Wisconsin's recycling law keeps more out of the landfill. Yard waste, major appliances, tires, cardboard and most household electronics - TVs, computers, monitors, printers and phones - are all banned from Wisconsin landfills, so a load has to be separated before anything is dumped.

That sorting is part of the price, not an add-on. Fridges and freezers go to a recycler that handles the refrigerant, electronics go to an e-waste recycler, brush and yard debris go to a yard waste site, metal goes to scrap, and furniture in decent shape goes to donation where it meets the intake standards.

What we cannot take is the same on both sides of the line: paint, solvents, pesticides, fuel, propane tanks and anything else that counts as household hazardous waste. If there is a shelf of it in the garage, we leave it where it is and tell you.