Department of Public Works

New at the Recycling Center

• Plastic Containers: #1 thru #7 now accepted
  (With glass and metal containers in the designated brown comapctor)

• Paper: all kinds
  Newspaper, white and colored, glossy, catalogs, magazines, junk mail etc.
  (In the designated large green bin or the blue bins)

• Cardboard, brown paper bags and Paperboard (cereal, gift and shoe boxes etc.) (In the designated brown comapctor)

• No CRT Televisions or Computer Monitors

• Permits Required but at no charge for;
  Refrigerator, Air Conditioners, Himidifiers and Water Coolers

Why Recycle?

• More solid waste is being generated each year and the cost of solid waste disposal is increasing. By removing recyclables from the waste stream the amount of waste is reduced and costs can thereby be reduced as well.

• Recycling saves millions of dollars by extending the lives of existing landfills and reducing the construction costs of additional incinerators. When the materials that you recycle go into new products, they don't go into landfills or incinerators, so landfill space is conserved.

• Our natural resources would diminish more rapidly without using recycled material to replenish the supply of goods.

• Products made from virgin material use more energy to produce. In most cases, making products from recycled materials creates less air pollution and water pollution than making products from virgin materials.

• Recycling reduces pollution, and greenhouse emissions that lead to global warming.

• The recycling industry supports more than 19,000 jobs in Massachusetts. The recycling process creates far more jobs than landfills or incinerators, and recycling can frequently be the least expensive waste management method for cities and towns.