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What Can I Recycle?
METAL CANS
GLASS
- Includes clear and colored glass food and beverage
containers
- Rinse all containers
- Remove caps and lids and discard
- Only paper labels may remain
- No broken glass, pane glass or light bulbs
#1 through #7
PLASTIC CONTAINERS
- Includes food and beverage bottles, containers, and jugs, detergent bottles, and shampoo bottles
- Rinse all containers
- Remove caps and lids and discard
- No styrofoam accepted
PAPER
- Includes newspaper, magazines, catalogs, office paper, junk mail, phone books, thin cardboard, e.g., cereal boxes and corrugated cardboard (no larger than 2 feet by 3 feet)
- Flatten all cardboard boxes
How Do I Recycle?
Recyclables are picked up on your regular garbage day
each week. Bins should be set out by 7:00 a.m. (or put it out the night
before after 5:00 p.m.). Place bottles and cans into one bin and paper and cardboard into a separate bin.
To request a blue bin, email Marissa.Perez-Dormitzer@newbedford-ma.gov, call (508) 979-1493 or click here.
To find out your recycling collection day, click here.
Where can I call if I have a question?
Residents can call the following phone
numbers if they have a question or a problem:
- (508) 979-1493, Marissa Perez-Dormitzer, New Bedford
Recycling Coordinator
- (508) 991-6156, Shawmut Avenue Transfer Station
- (508) 763-5924, Greater New Bedford Regional Refuse
Management District
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