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| Posted June 16, 2005 |
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The City of Boston Public Works Department Recycling Program offers recycling for large apartment buildings throughout the city. If you are a Boston resident living in an apartment building with over six units, and would like recycling services in the building, have your landlord or building manager call 635-4959. Materials collected include plastic containers, glass, tin, and aluminum cans and foil, and aseptic packaging, such as juice box containers. Paper products accepted include junk mail, office paper, newspaper, cereal boxes, magazines, phone books, paperback books, and corrugated cardboard. For more information about large apartment building recycling, please call John McCarthy at 635-4959 to start recycling at your building.
Boston recycling announces two drop-off days for household hazardous products and tires.
City of Boston Public Works Department will recycle and safely dispose of residents' household products containing hazardous ingredients at two Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Days this summer. On Saturday, June 18, the drop-off will be in a parking lot at the University of Massachusetts, Boston Harbor Campus, located on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
On Saturday, July 9, the drop-off will be at the Public Works Yard, 315 Gardner Street in West Roxbury (near Millenium Park). Residents can bring up to 50 pounds of products labeled toxic, flammable, reactive, corrosive, or poisonous; such as paint, motor oil, pesticides, solvents, glues, bleach or ammonia-based cleaners, weed killers, photo chemicals, pool chemicals, tires, car batteries, propane tanks, and used motor oil. Boston residents can no longer put automobile tires out with their trash. On Saturday, June 18, and Saturday, July 9, there are opportunities for residents to recycle their old car tires. Residents can bring their tires to many automotive centers for a fee. Hazardous waste from commercial business will not be accepted. Residents must have proof of Boston residency.
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