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The City’s Mandatory Recycling Ordinance requires that any building that generates waste in Cambridge must recycle.

We provide free recycling "toters" and weekly curbside collection service to all residential buildings with 6 units or more. Owner-occupied multi-family buildings with less than 6 units are eligible for a toter for paper/cardboard. Click here to request a toter. Place recycling at the curb after 6pm the day before collection or by 7am on collection day. Toters must not block the sidewalk and empty toters must be removed from the curb by 6pm the day of collection.

If you’ve just moved in, ask your building manager or landlord how recyclables are handled. If your building does not have a way for you to recycle, contact us.

**New multi-family residential developments with 75+ units that request City service are required to pay a set-up charge for toters to collect recyclable materials.

Print and post these flyers above your recycling "toters" to educate others in your building. Contact us for laminated copies.

We are available to attend tenant/condo meetings to make tailored recycling presentations or to help troubleshoot problems. In addition, we provide recycling brochures in 5 languages: English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Chinese and Portuguese. We also have a simple, full-color flyer with all languages, click here.

Contact us if you need: educational flyers, broken recycling toters replaced, more toters, or more recycling labels to reduce contamination. These are the labels available:

If your building is not eligible for free toters from the City and would like to purchase them, click here for a list of toters that we know are compatible with our side-lifting Labrie recycling trucks.

   


 

 
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