What about fines for these clowns collecting the recycling and trash for firing bins and barrels across neighborhoods? If they don't like collecting trash, maybe they should have made better life choices. Don't take it out on my $150 trash barrels, and cause a public safety hazard on our streets. But don't worry...my new security cameras will capture footage and it WILL be posted for all to see. You can count on that! If you want to hold the people of the town accountable, I expect you to do the same with the people contracted, and paid with our tax dollars, to perform these tasks.

So I am a single guy living alone and I DO recycle.. But some weeks I work away from home and only have a couple things in my recycle bin, and dont put it out.... That was the case this week. .. I didnt put it out.. (It will be full in 2 weeks) I have a warning sticker on my barrels now.. Thats not right.. I always recycle! Ask whats up with that? is my address on a town list of "recycle offenders??now

Happened to me as well

Big Bux, if you can find me big barrels with wheels and attached lids (like they use in Tewksbury) for less dough, I will be all over that. Those stupid things aren't cheap! If they don't pick up our trash, We could always just drop it off at town hall.

I put my recycling and trash out the night before. When I leave for work in the morning, the recyling has already come and I put the bins back in my house so they aren't laying on my front lawn killing my beautiful crabgrass display and getting full of bugs. Then when the trash guys come by hours later, they leave me a warning for not recycling because I put my bins away in the morning. I'm not against these warnings, but the enforcement is flawed. It would make more sense for the recyling team to leave the warnings. They are the only people guaranteed to actually see who is and is not recycling.

I throw my trash in Tewksbury.

I've noticed recently more and more trash being strewn around town and left there by trash pick up crew. I understand they can't pick up every last peice of trash that falls to the ground, but when they spill half a barrel they should pick it up!

I also agree on the warnings. We recycle but forgot to put out our bin one week. That doesn't mean our recycling went into the garbage, just that we held onto it an extra 2 weeks. We got a warning. I'd have been pissed if they didn't pick up my trash because of that.

If they are going to make recycling mandatory, they need to increase the pickup cycle to every week.

Overall, I'm thrilled with the town being more aggressive in recycling..there are too many benefits. I hope the town gets even more aggressive and maybe comes out with even more programs (like some towns in the north/coast area). How about addressing or promoting composting? I would love it if the town offerred compost bins/classes. That would reduce a lot more waste as well.

I would love to see if there is any long-term benefit to doing what Newton did, offer large barrels specific for recycling, rather than the small ones as incentive to the community, especially if there is long-term cost to dumping trash. Now I believe they gave their barrels for free, which isn't necessarily what we would have to do, but even if the town offered larger bins at a discount than buying them at a Home store. But, because I recycle anything possible, our recycling more than doubles our trash and we can no longer fit it into the small bins anymore. We can only have so many bins that they go into our trash bins, which can make it hard to decipher between the two. I also love the composting idea, which could be offered similarly to the larger recycling bins, where they could be offered at a discount as the compost bins maybe otherwise, cost-prohibitive.