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For the 20th year in a row, the City of Cambridge has been awarded Tree City USA recognition

The City of Cambridge is launching the Healthy Forest Healthy City Initiative to the urban forest.

Curbside compost is available to all residential buildings with city trash collection. Composting reduces trash going to landfills and converts food scraps into clean energy. Separating food waste from trash bins and placing it in lockable curbside compost carts also helps manage rodents in the community.

Annual update on the progress of the CSO control measure to improve water quality of Alewife Brook and Charles River.

Kendall Square Construction Projects

The City of Cambridge is partnering with the Great American Rain Barrel Program to offer interested Cambridge residents the opportunity to purchase a rain barrel at a discounted rate of $69. With more time spent at home in 2020, gardening has become a form of solace for many residents in the wake of the pandemic. To water these new gardens, residents are encouraged to take advantage of the discounted rain barrels. This method of irrigation conserves energy and money, while remaining environmentally conscientious.

Curbside collections, including trash, recycling, compost, and yard waste, will be suspended and one day behind for the remainder of the week. Street cleaning will also be suspended for the holiday. Regularly scheduled street cleaning routes for Monday, April 19 will be swept on Thursday, April 29, 2021.

Beginning April 20th, weather permitting, the City’s contractor, E J Paving, will be performing partial roadway grinding and paving operations to enhance the road conditions on several sections of street around the City. The roadway grinding operation at each location is expected take two days followed by paving of the roadway later that same week, or the following week (weather permitting). For a list of street sections to be re-surfaced, please see below.

In two years, the City has diverted over 10,000 mattresses weighing 600,000 pounds from landfills.

The Department of Public Works winter moratorium on excavations in the public right of way ends on March 22, 2021 at 7:00am.