JASPER COUNTY SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT
Andrew Deters, Solid Waste Coordinator
12871 East State Highway 33, Newton, Illinois 62448 Phone 618-783-2915
The Newton site, which is the County Highway Building, is located 1¼ mile.
NE of Newton. The hours for the Newton site are 7 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.
All other sites will be open starting at 7:30 A.M. If a dumpster is filled before 10:30 A.M., another
Dumpster will be brought to the site. These sites will be open until noon or when the Dumpster is filled
after 10:30 A.M.
Appliances are being accepted at only the Newton site, the County Highway Building, on
Saturdays the Newton site is open. The appliances, which are recycled, are to be placed in a dumpster
reserved for appliances only. The compressor must be removed or the freon line opened to show freon
has been properly removed from 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.
No yard waste (grass, leaves, and limbs) will be accepted at the dumpster, since these items
were banned from Illinois landfills effective July 1, 1990.
No tires or asbestos materials will be accepted.
No electronic items (televisions, monitors, printers, cable receivers, stereo equipment, electronic
keyboards, facsimile machines, scanners, satellite receivers, speakers, video game consoles, electronic
mice, small scale servers, computers, digital converter boxes, videocassette recorders, portable digital
music players, digital video disc recorders & players) will be accepted in the Dumpster since these items
were banned from Illinois landfills effective January 1, 2012.
