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Pay-As-You-Throw Begins on Wednesday, July 1, 2009.
All trash must be in West Boylston Green Bags to be collected.
Click here for information on West Boylston Green Bags.
(other plastic bags will continue to be collected through June 30.)
West Boylston Recycles!
The Town of West Boylston provides curbside trash pickup and curbside recycling for all households with Municipal Trash Collection through our contractor, Allied Waste Services. Recycling reduces the amount of trash that must be brought to transfer stations and landfills and directly lowers the cost of trash collection for the town. We encourage you to participate in curbside recycling.
Please put all trash and recyclables out to the street by 7AM on the morning of your scheduled pickup. When your scheduled collection day falls on a holiday, that day's collection - and all subsequent collections that week - will be delayed one day. Friday's collection will be on Saturday. Please check the Trash & Recycling Calendar for more information.
Trash Collection
Household trash must be placed in West Boylston Green Bags and set out by the street. Your Green Bag should be able to close and weigh 40 pounds or less.
These items are prohibited from landfills in Massachusetts and therefore cannot be disposed of in your municipal trash:
Items Prohibited from Municipal Trash Collection |
Major Appliances |
Lead Acid Batteries |
TVs and Computer Monitors |
Wood |
Tires |
Metal |
Yard Waste |
Asphalt Pavement |
Brick |
Concrete |
Curbside Recycling Collection
We recycle paper products and glass and containers on alternate weeks on your regular trash day. Newspapers, corrugated cardboard, etc. will be collected on one week and glass bottles and containers the next. Please separate your recycling into bins and place the bins out with your trash.
The Recycling Calendar is color coded to indicate which type of recyclables will be collected for each week. Blue signifies that it is a "container week"; green indicates a "paper week". See the lists below for what can be recycled.
Note: The Department of Public Works does not have any recycling bins to provide to residents. The recycling bins that were provided by a special grant have already been distributed.
Paper: Green weeks
(use a bin or brown paper bag)
- Newspapers with inserts
- Magazines and catalogs
- Phone books
- Office paper and solicitations
- Junk mail staples are okay; remove windows from envelopes
- Shredded paper in paper bags
- Chipboard, cereal and cracker boxes remove plastic liners
- Corrugated cardboard flattened, wax free, 3' x 3' or smaller
- Paper bags
- NO Pizza boxes or soiled boxes
Containers: Blue weeks
(Rinse and place inside of bin)
- Glass bottles and jars all colors and sizes. Remove lids, corks, neck rings, etc.
- Metal food cans and lids, deposit and non-deposit cans aluminum, tin or steel
     Plastic containers- Milk cartons and juice boxes
- NO styrofoam
- NO aluminum foil, pie plates
- NO paint or aerosol cans
- NO broken or other glass such as light bulbs, window or auto glass, dishes, glasses, Pyrex.
- NO plastic bags, motor oil or chemical containers.
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