![]() Mayor Perry and his administration are making clean streets and crackdown on dumping enforcement priorities.Question: Won’t this cart system just generate even more illegal dumping? All single-stream recyclables should go in your Recycle Cart – Plastic bottles, jugs & containers (rinsed & clean) Aluminum/steel/tin cans (rinsed & clean) Newspaper Cardboard (flatten) Mixed office paper, junk mail etc.Question: What materials can be placed in the Recycle Cart? After initial distribution of carts this summer, the City will switch out large carts with 35-gallon carts if requested by residents. Are smaller carts than the 64-gallon trash cart or the 95-gallon recycle carts available? Question: What if I’m senior citizen or someone who cannot maneuver the larger carts. Extra trash carts will be available to households at an annual fee for $100.Galloway’s Convenience Store (176 Pelham St) Overflow bags are available at Methuen City Hall 41 Pleasant St., Nevins Memorial Library 305 Broadway, Methuen Senior Activity Center 77 Lowell St., Methuen Transfer Station 50 Huntington Ave., and at the following locations throughout the city: Each household will receive 2 bags upon the initial distribution of carts, and thereafter, bags will be available for sale at a cost of $10 for a package of 5 bags. Overflow bags will be available, both to assist with the transition to automated trash pick-up and to address unusually high trash-producing events, such as parties and holidays.Question: What if I have a large event at my house and generate more trash than can fit in the cart? Recyclables collection will continue to be every other week but instead of using open bins or stickered receptacles, recyclables should be placed in the new 95-gallon wheeled cart with blue lid. Yes…The hauler will only collect trash placed in the designated trash receptacle.Question: Do I have to put trash and recyclables in my new carts? ![]() ![]() Every Methuen residential housing unit receiving curbside service (including those in multiple unit structures) will receive a 64-gallon trash cart and a 95-gallon cart for single stream recyclables.On or about October 1, once citizen education efforts have been completed and new carts have been distributed to all residential household units that are eligible for curbside collection.Question: When will Methuen Switch to the new automated collection system? These trends are increasingly expensive for our city and terrible for our environment. Methuen ranks worst in the state among similarly-sized communities for the amounts of solid waste we dispose per household, and near last in recycling. In Massachusetts, solid waste disposal capacity is severely constrained, compelling communities to better manage waste collection by promoting materials reuse, recycling and composting of food waste. Reducing our solid waste disposal and increasing our recycling makes economic and environmental sense for all communities.Question: Why Are Trash Limits So Important? Automated collection is safer for workers, more efficient in facilitating timely completion of collection routes, and more cost effective. The benefit of automated collection is that trash must be inside the trash container to be collected, which assists with implementing trash limits (see below). Automated collection is the collection of trash and recycling by means of trash vehicles equipped with a forklift type mechanism that can pick up trash containers with no assistance from a human collector.Question: What is automated collection and why is it coming to Methuen?
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