Facility details
- Address
- 3300 Washington St
Waukegan, IL 60085 - Phone
- (847) 249-7011
- Website
- mwrecycle.com
- Facility type
- Recycling
- County
- Lake County
- EPA Region
- 5
- Data sources
- EPA
- Last verified
- 2026-10-09
About this facility
A recycling center collects, sorts and prepares recoverable materials so they can be sold to mills and manufacturers instead of being landfilled. Some are public drop-off sites run by a city, county or hauler; others are commercial buy-back yards or processing plants that take material from collection routes and businesses. What a given site handles depends on its equipment and the markets it sells into, so one center may focus on cardboard and containers while another takes only scrap metal. Many sites pay for certain materials and charge for others. Hours, fees and accepted materials vary — call ahead to confirm what is taken, how it must be sorted and whether there is a minimum quantity.
Typically accepted at Recycling Center facilities
- Cardboard and mixed paper
- Plastic bottles and containers
- Aluminum and steel cans
- Glass bottles and jars
- Scrap metal
- Electronics (at some sites)
Hours, fees and accepted materials vary by site — call ahead before hauling a load.
Nearby facilities
- Aspen Valley LSW Transfer Station Transfer Station 0.9 mi · Park City, IL
- Paper Tiger Document Solutions Recycling 1.4 mi · Gurnee, IL
- Solid Waste Agency Of Lake Co Transfer Station 1.5 mi · Gurnee, IL
- Suburban Scrap Metal Company Recycling 2.0 mi · Gurnee, IL
- Focus Material Recycling Recycling 2.0 mi · Gurnee, IL
- GoGreen Recycling LLC Recycling 2.1 mi · Gurnee, IL
- Midwest Computer Recycling Recycling 2.1 mi · Gurnee, IL
- Plast-Ex USA Recycling 2.2 mi · Gurnee, IL
- Ecologic Inc Recycling 2.3 mi · Waukegan, IL
- C&M Recycling Inc Recycling 3.3 mi · North Chicago, IL
Nearest landfill: Countryside Landfill Inc, Grayslake — 7.7 mi
Area served
Serves Waukegan, North Chicago, Gurnee, Great Lakes, Lake Bluff, Libertyville, Wadsworth, Zion, Lake Forest, Grayslake, Winthrop Harbor, Russell.
County context
One of 40 recycling centers in Lake County, IL.
ZIP 60085 population 72,763.
Illinois solid-waste agency: Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA)