hazardous waste disposal days?

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

In previous years, there have been days for hazardous waste disposal in June and September at the DPW. This year, I can't find any mention of them, on the city website or the ResiStat mailings. What are we to do with our hazardous waste?

Comments

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

1st (I think I don't have the calendar in front of me) Saturday of every month from April to November. 9am to noon I believe.

There is not, however, a foam recycling day scheduled, because the company went out of business.

However, Save Our Stuff in Charlestown does accept styrofoam dropoffs.

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

Ah, I was mixing up the hazardous waste and foam drop-off days. Bummer about the foam company being a no-go.

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

My mistake, it's the second Saturday. Next one is July 9th.

The city is still optimistic and lists the September styrofoam recycling day. We'll see if it happens.

The DPW is not great at putting the info on the website and I usually lose the mailing, so I spend a lot of time looking it up again - http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Enviro%20Service%20Guide%202016%20Final.pdf

[mem-winterhill.livejournal.com]

Check out the "Environmental Services Guide" at the city web site. There's a PDF you can print up: http://www.somervillema.gov/recycling

It apparently had gone out by mail, and a lot of people got them, but our household didn't get one this year. I rely on this all the time, so I picked up one from the Sustainability Office.

I needed a styrofoam recycling, but the June one got cancelled.

[avjudge]

You can now also have hazardous waste drop-off days, and trash & yard waste pickup days, to your calendar, or get reminders sent to you - at http://www.somervillema.gov/wizard/ , or use the Waste Wizard link on the above recycling page.

Choose "my schedule," type in your address, and you'll see a calendar. You can use the "get a calendar" link to add it to your Google, Mac, or MS calendar, or "get a reminder" to, well, get a reminder. I have it on my calendar and it's great to be able to see at a glance if it's yard waste week or if I have to wait a week.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

The June one got cancelled because the company that picked up the styrofoam shut down their operations because of needing to find a new warehouse with a certain size and certain kinds of sprinkler systems to run the recycling machines. They did not sound like they'd be back in business but as chenoameg points out there is a place in charelstown that accepts styrofoam drop offs, and not just June and September.

[craigindaville.livejournal.com]

Just a heads up that there might be a long line to get in and do this. I went for the first time in a long time last month, assumed it would be a 5-minute errand, but it took about 45 minutes to get to the front and drop things off.

[vonelftinhaus.livejournal.com]

I think last month that line might of been attributed to the only twice a year drop off for Styrofoam, which only occurs in June and Sept, as I think those lines got merged together

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

But there was no styrofoam dropoff last month, it got cancelled.

[vonelftinhaus.livejournal.com]

The city still took the Styrofoam; they didn't send me away with mine nor the 3 cars behind me - there was a huge pile of it so they possibly still took it for those that did not know about the cancellation.

Thanks for the info up above about the drop off place in Charlestown - will definetly use them