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Trash Recycling Rules & Regulations
Mandatory Weekly Recycling (Effective June 30, 2014)
The Town will collect all acceptable waste and recycling from all residential buildings, including residential condominiums (not including rental apartment houses where the number of apartments exceeds six) on a weekly basis. No collection of commercial waste shall occur. All material for collection must be at the outside of the sidewalk, in proper containers, by 7 a.m. on the regular collection day. Every receptacle must be removed from the sidewalk on the day the collection is made. Every residential unit must place out recycling in order to have the trash removed.
Single Stream Recycling Policy - Recycling Made Easy
Remember - Do not pull in your recycling barrels/containers until the trash has been picked up.
Effective June 30, 2014, recycling bins/barrels will be collected every week on your regular trash collection day. There is no limit on the amount of Recycling Barrels/bins that are placed curbside. All containers must be clearly marked recycling. You may put lids on the barrels to prevent items from blowing out of the containers during bad weather days. All recyclables can be co-mingled!
Acceptable Materials
The following acceptable materials must be placed in separate containers and cannot be mixed with regular trash:
- Corrugated cardboard, flattened maximum size 4 by 4 tied or taped
- Newspapers and newspaper inserts, magazines and phonebooks, catalogs, brown paper bags
- Paperboard (cereal, cracker boxes), pizza boxes
All cardboard must be recycled, will not be picked up as trash.
Other accepted items include:
- Clean paper cups
- Glass bottles and jars, all colors and sizes
- Junk mail, colored paper, books, file folders
- Milk cartons and juice boxes (flattened, no straws), paper egg cartons, blueprints
- Paper towel tubes, toilet paper tubes
- Plastic containers labeled 1 to 7
- Plastic Microwave Trays, frozen food containers, ice cream or frozen juice containers
- Shampoo/conditioner bottles, Tylenol and Advil bottles, hand cream bottles, etc.
- Spiral cans (potato chips, snack cans, etc.)
- Tin cans and aluminum cans, steel cans and lids, aluminum foil
Large Cardboard
Cardboard larger than 4 by 4 can be brought to the Stevens Street Recycling, a dumpster is available. Recycling sticker is required, no charge to dispose of the cardboard. All Styrofoam must be removed and is not accepted at Stevens Street Recycling Center.
Items Not Accepted
- No Broken Glass or Other Items (Window Glass, Dishes, Ceramics, Light Bulbs)
- No Cans or Bottles Containing Paint, Aerosol or Hazardous Materials
- No Hazardous or Bio-Hazardous Waste
- No Household Batteries - Any Alkaline Batteries made After 1994 Goes in the Trash
- No Mirrors, No Light Blubs, No Plates, No Drinking Glasses
- No Needles or Syringes, No Paper Ream Wrappers
- No Plastic Bags
- No Plastic Tyvek Envelopes, No Plastic 6 Pack Holders
- No Rigid Plastics, Example; Laundry Baskets, Lawn Chairs, Toys
- No Smoke Detectors - Dispose of Smoke Detectors in the Trash
- No Stickers or Sheets of Address Labels (Affixed Labels and Stamps Okay)
- No Styrofoam, No Paper to Go Boxes, No Scrap Metal
- No Tissue, Paper Towels, Napkins
- No Waxed Paper or Waxed Cardboard
Rigid plastics can be brought to the Stevens Street Recycling, a dumpster is available. Recycling sticker is required, no charge to dispose of the rigid plastics.
Acceptable Waste
All household trash must be in plastic bags not to exceed 50 pounds – 90 gallon maximum total; excluding inherently dangerous, toxic, and hazardous wastes or materials banned by federal, state, or local regulatory agencies. One large bulk item per week less than 50 pounds (no metal or white goods) may be put out for pickup.
Materials not collected shall be the individual’s responsibility to make private arrangements for disposal. Whenever a scheduled collection day falls on a holiday that day’s collection and all remaining collections for the week will be delayed one day (Friday’s collection will be on Saturday). If a residential home is on a corner lot, only one pick up will be made. Trash/recycling must be consistently located in the same area every week.
Waste That Won't Be Picked up
- No trash that is over the 90 gallon maximum total – unless in an overflow bag
- No plastic bag that weighs more than 50 pounds
- Frozen barrels will not be handled
- No Recyclable products including but not limited to glass containers and metal containers, newspapers and cardboard
- No bulk item 50 pounds or over – i.e. No mattresses/box springs larger than twin size
- Contact the Town’s Trash Hauler, Casella Waste at 1-800-950-9293 to make arrangements to pick up curbside (fees apply)
- No white goods (refrigerators and stoves, air conditioners, microwaves, miscellaneous metal, etc.)
- Contact the Town’s Trash Hauler, Casella Waste at 1-800-950-9293 to make arrangements to pick up curbside (fees apply)
- Items may be disposed of at Stevens Street Recycling Center - fees apply (permit required prior to being dropped off)
Not Accepted in Trash but Can Be Dropped off at Stevens Street
- Cardboard larger than 4 feet by 4 feet
- Rigid Plastics (lawn chairs, children’s toys, small plastic buckets, etc.)
- Yard waste, brush, clean small stumps, limbs etc.
- Fluorescent lamps, ballasts, nickle-cadium and button batteries (permit required prior to being dropped off)
- Televisions and monitors, hard-drives/towers, printers/copiers, word processors, etc. (permit required prior to being dropped off)
Items to Be Disposed at Hazardous Waste Day Only
- Automotive Batteries - Service stations or repair garages may accept automobile batteries or you may bring them to the Hazardous Waste Day - fees apply
- Toxic and volatile chemicals including oil base paints
- Tires, propane tanks - fees apply
Items Requiring Special Arrangements
- Wood, construction/demolition materials, concrete/bricks, etc.
Casella Waste
Moving or cleaning out or single day large volume private disposal? Contact the Town’s Trash Hauler, Casella Waste at 1-800-950-9293 to make arrangements. Casella waste does no handle the following materials:
- Auto hulks and motorcycles, heavy machinery, chain link fencing, metal tanks, etc.
- Explosives
- Pathological waste