Weymouth offers curbside recycling collection as well as a transfer station with a recycling area.

Backyard compost bins are available at the Weymouth DPW, 120 Winter St., for the reduced price of $22.  Subsidized by the Mass. Dept. of Environmental Protection.

For details, visit the Town of Weymouth DPW Trash & Recycling Program page.

Materials Accepted:

See the Town of Weymouth rubbish and recycling Rules and Regulations.

January 29, 2007 Weymouth taxpayers, trees win Phone Book Recycling contest WBZ Channel 4 News covered a wildly successful event in Weymouth today:  a Phone Book Recycling Contest among all 11 elementary schools. When the TV station learned that police cruisers were escorting recycling trucks and front end loaders from school to school, they sent a TV crew to cover the story at the Wessagusset and Pingree Schools.  Thanks to the creative talents of the folks at local cable station WETC, and the efforts of staff at the Schools, the DPW, Waste Management, MassDEP, and the South Shore Recycling Cooperative, Weymouth’s 3,000 elementary school students recycled 14 tons of old phone books with great fanfare, cheering as they lined up to drop phone books into the bucket of a front end loader. When they filled it up, the loader dumped the books into a green roll-off container, which was weighed between stops at the schools.  The full roll-offs were delivered to Recycle America in Avon where they’ll begin their journey to become a cereal box, or perhaps another phone book.  Full article

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Mercury is a heavy toxic silver liquid also found in thermostats, barometers and blood pressure cuffs. 

 Bring your mercury thermometers and other mercury-containing items (excluding fluorescent tubes) to one of Weymouth's HHP Collections or to the DPW at 120 Winter St. during regular hours and receive a free digital thermometer or Dunkin Donuts coupon.

Quantities are limited, certain parameters apply. Sponsored by Covanta at SEMASS.