Refuse Collection for City Residents
2025 Schedule
ISHPEMING RESIDENTS will have the opportunity to dispose of large, non-hazardous garbage items at the City’s compost site. Roll-off containers will be available. This service will be available on the last Saturday of every month (unless otherwise noted) through October from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. located on Carson Road off Lakeshore Drive (250 Sunset Drive). There will be additional days in May for Spring Cleanup as listed below.
RESIDENTS are REQUIRED to present identification AND their City utility bill.
**LIMIT OF ONE LOAD PER TRUCK PER DAY WILL BE ENFORCED**
- THERE WILL BE NO REFUSE COLLECTION SCHEDULED IN APRIL
- Friday, May 16, 2025 from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (UPDATED 4.10.25)
- Saturday, May 17, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (UPDATED 4.10.25)
- Friday, May 30, 2025 from 7:00 am. to 7:00 p.m.
- Saturday, May 31, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
- Saturday, June 28, 2025
- Saturday, July 26, 2025
- Saturday, August 30, 2025
- Saturday, September 27, 2025
- Saturday, October 25, 2025
PROHIBITED ITEMS INCLUDE:
Beverage containers (recycle curbside)
Cardboard (recycle curbside)
Tires
Yard clippings (place in compost pile)
Brush / small diameter trees/branches (place in brush pile)
Used oil
Low-level radioactive waste
Hazardous waste
Liquid waste
Sewage
PCBs
Asbestos Waste
Medical Waste
Construction Materials, including shingles
Scrap Metal (place in recycling bins or recycle curbside)
For more information, please contact Public Works at (906) 486-9371.
The Waste and Compost site is located on Carson Road off of Lakeshore Drive–
250 Sunset Drive
