Town of Townsend, Massachusetts

TOWNSEND CURBSIDE TRASH AND RECYCLING SCHEDULE FISCAL YEAR 2011

Trash Only Week	Trash and Recycling Week Paper & Containers, Separated	Trash Only Week	Trash and Recycling Week Paper & Containers, Separated
July 13-16	July 20-23	July 27-30	August 3-6
August 10-13	August 17-20	August 24-27	August 31-Sept 3
September 7-10	September 14-17	September 21-24	September 28-Oct 1
October 5-8	October 12-15	October 19-22	October 26-29
November 2-5	November 9-12	November 16-19	November 23-27*
November 30- Dec 3	December 7-10	December 14-17	December 21-24
December 28-31	January 4-7	January 11-14	January 18-21
January 25-28	February 1-4	February 8-11	February 15-18
February 22-25	March 1-4	March 8-11	March 15-18
March 22-25	March 29 – April 1	April 5-8	April 12-15
April 19-22	April 26-29	May 3-6	May 10-13
May 17-20	May 24-27	May 31-June 3	June 7-10
June 14-17	June 21-24	June 28 – July 1

Click here for a printable version of the recycling schedule and information.

* If your trash day falls on a Holiday, your trash will be picked up on the following day. Each affected day will be moved one day to the following day, (example: Thanksgiving is Thursday so Thursday trash will be picked up on Friday and Friday's trash will be picked up on Saturday.) Trash collection is Tuesday through Friday, so Monday holidays do not affect the schedule.

Of note, there is a 6 bag limit (for trash) that will be picked up curbside and Recycling is Mandatory in our town. Recycle as much as you can!

Paper: All recyclable paper (clean and dry). Includes newspaper, mixed paper (magazines, food boxes, junk mail (remove any objects before), catalogs, phone books), corrugated, paper bags. NO soiled items (used paper plates, tissues, paper towels). NO cloth, plastic bags, fabric handles, NO sample products or junk-mailed objects, NO packing material.

Containers: All recyclable co-mingled solids/All recyclable co-mingled containers (empty and rinsed)." (Plastics #1-#7; remove caps. Steel food cans. Glass includes clear and colored bottles & jars; labels & neck rings may stay; remove lids and corks. NO fluorescent bulbs. NO pane glass. NO drink ware, dishware or cookware and especially NO Pyrex. NO motor oil containers. NO paint cans, spray cans, scrap metal. NO STYROFOAM (put in trash) AND NO PLASTIC GROCERY BAGS! Grocery bags can be recycled at Hannaford's and most grocery stores. Lastly, NO Aluminum foil materials are recyclable!

Want to know what day of the week your trash & Recycling pickup is? Follow this link to see the Town Roads information in an Excel spreadsheet, and look at the last column.

Recycling is Mandatory….

Please recycle as much as possible. Include NO recyclables in your trash. It’s easy; it’s environmentally smart and right; it’s free to use, it’s the law and it saves you and all taxpayers money! The more you recycle, the less you pay in taxes! For information, click the links at left.

NEED A RECYCLING BIN?

You can buy a Recycling Bin at your local hardware store.
The more you put in the recycling bin, the more you (the town) saves.

The Town Hall also has free RECYCLING stickers to place on bins you already have. Shaw’s will recognize your recycling with these stickers!