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Walpole Recycling Information
For Residents with Municipal Trash Collection
Curbside Collection Information
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Paper
Acceptable items - Place
in paper bag, bin or any open container
- Newspaper/inserts
- Magazines/catalogs
- Brown paper bags
- Junk mail, phone books, hard and soft covered books
- Office paper
- Paperboard (cereal, cracker boxes). Remove plastic liners
- Corrugated
cardboard, flatten, no bigger than . Must be in brown paper bag or blue recycling bin (max 2'
X 2')
All
paper & cardboard must be clean and dry.
Not Accepted
- NO plastic bags
- NO dirty pizza boxes (ONLY CLEAN boxes may be recycled if cut up)
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Containers
Place in bin or any open container
- Glass
bottles/jars, all colors and sizes
- Aluminum,
tin/steel cans and lids, deposit and non-deposit beverage cans,
- Aluminum foil/pie plates
- Plastic food and beverage containers labeled
- Milk
cartons and juice boxes
Not Accepted
- NO styrofoam
- NO packing materials
- NO plastic trays
- NO plastic bags
- NO items containing paint, aerosol or hazardous materials
- NO broken glass, windows glass, dishes, Pyrex, ceramics
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Batteries
Household
batteries are all mercury free so they can be thrown out with the
trash. Button cell batteries SHOULD NOT be put out with the
trash because half of them still contain mercury. Button cell batteries
and recyclable batteries should be brought to the household
hazardous waste collections.
Drop-Off at Robbins Road/Special Collections |
Yard Waste - Must obtain sticker from Collector's Office
- Leaves, grass, other easily raked materials
- Drop-off days - Wednesdays, year round, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- Open Saturdays - Spring, Summer & Fall. Click here for schedule
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Electronics (Drop-off)
- TVs, computers
- Call (508)660-7321 for appt & prices
Christmas Trees (Curbside)
- Remove tinsel, twine, ornaments
- 1st 2 weeks of January
Corrugated Cardboard
- Corrugated cardboard at drop-off can be larger than 2' X 2'
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Fluorescent light bulbs
- No charge at Rocky's Ace Hardware (653 Main St)
- No eight foot lengths
Cell phones, mercury thermometers, mercury thermostats (Drop-off)
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Curbside Recycling Collection Schedule
Recycling is collected every other week on your regular trash day, Monday - Friday. Shade week residents have their recycling collected on weeks shaded. Non-shaded week residents have their recycling collected on weeks not shaded. Click here for calendar.
Shaded or Not shaded?
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Holiday Schedule
When a scheduled collection day falls on a holiday, that day's collection and all remaining collections for that week will be delayed one day (see calendar). Friday's collection will be on Saturday. Holidays are circled. Click here for holiday schedule
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Drop-off Recycling
Robbins Road Compost Center, Robbins Road. Wednesdays, year round, 9:00 Am - 12:00 PM. Open Saturdays - Spring, Summer & Fall. Click here for schedule
Compost bins - $20, call (508) 660-7321 |
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