Recycling centers in North Branch

Locally owned since 1980, Deerfield Disposal hauls garbage for Lapeer County homes and businesses from 5700 N. Lapeer Road in North Branch. North Lapeer Recycling, at the same address, buys scrap metal, wrecked vehicles, broken appliances, and other metal items. Roll-offs come in 10, 15, 20, 30, and 40 yard sizes, and industrial compactors are 42 yards. The site takes bagged household trash, runs a transfer facility, and destroys documents. Recycling drop-off is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., for a per-trip fee, and material has to be sorted. Accepted recyclables are newspaper, magazines, glossy inserts, junk mail, corrugated cardboard, tin and aluminum cans, and clear glass bottles and jars. Plastic is limited to #1 and #2 bottles and jars, including water bottles and milk jugs. Black plastic, cups, tubs, clamshells, and bags are turned away.

North Lapeer Recycling and Deerfield Disposal share one yard on North Lapeer Road in North Branch and have served Lapeer County since 1980, locally owned. North Lapeer buys all types of metal, including old or wrecked vehicles, broken appliances, and wire, and posts current scrap prices on a recorded phone line. Public recycling drop-off runs Monday through Friday and takes newspaper, magazines, junk mail, cardboard, tin and aluminum cans, clear glass jars, and plastic bottles and jugs marked number 1 or 2, with no black plastic, cups, tubs, clamshells, or bags. Deerfield rents 10, 15, 20, 30, and 40 yard roll-offs and 42-yard industrial compactors, runs a transfer facility, takes small bagged household trash, and destroys documents by the pound.