If you were unable to pick up your trash bags at Town Meeting, volunteers from the Recycling and Solid Waste Committee will be distributing them on the following dates and times:  Click here for the schedule.  If no date on the schedule is possible for your picking up your own bags, you might ask a family member, friend, or neighbor to pick them up for you.

Check out this website for proper disposal of prescription medicines.  Note that police stations in Amherst, Hadley, and Northampton have secure boxes to accept disposal of old medications.

 

Click here for NPR's graphic explanation of plastics recycling.

This directory, put out by MassDEP, is full of information about how to deal with materials which do NOT get recycled at the curb.

Check out this resource for information on how to properly discard or recycle old mattresses.

Trash Disposal and Recycling Bylaw

Littering and Dumping Bylaw

 Recycling & Trash The recycling schedule until June 26: Paper: April 17, May 1, May 15, May 30 (Thursday), June 12, and June 26 Containers: April 24, May 8, May 22, June 5, and June 19         Is it paper or containers this week?

   The Shutesbury Recycling Almanac — your primary reference for proper recycling and solid waste disposal — has been updated to include recent changes to regulations and Town practice.  This 3rd edition of the Almanac is a searchable document, available to read or download here.