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This year we continued collecting and disposing of unwanted prescription medications.
Residents can drop off capped bottles of prescription medications 24 hours/day, seven days a
week in the lobby of the Boxford Police Station. No syringes, needles or sharps can be accepted
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at this drop off, but needles can be dropped off at Board of Health office, 2 Floor of Town Hall,
on Mondays through Thursdays from 8 AM to 2 PM.

Cooperative, successful, and continuing events this past year included a May Earth Day
celebration in conjunction with the Boxford Village Garden Club and our thirtieth annual
Household Hazardous Waste collection day with the towns of Topsfield and Middleton in
November. Our 2017 HHW collection will be held on Oct. 28th. Residents are urged to take
advantage of this opportunity to properly dispose of any household toxic product.

Through an agreement with the Town of Topsfield’s Road Commissioners, Boxford residents
continue to have access to Topsfield’s composting site. For a $5 fee per visit payable by first
purchasing a compost ticket in Boxford, residents can drop-off brush and yard waste at
Topsfield’s Highway Facility, 267 Boston St., between April 1 and Nov. 15 from 9 AM to 1 PM
on Saturdays.

Please note that our vendor, Recycle That, will pay our town for collecting acceptable items in
their bin at the Drop-Off Center. Items accepted include: hardcovers and paperbacks, CDs,
DVDs, audio books, records, textbooks. (They no longer collect encyclopedias or home made
recorded or taped media.) They also accept clothing, textiles, shoes and bedding which just needs
to be clean and dry.

Volunteers are the lifeblood of our town. The Recycling Committee is extremely gratified by the
volunteer efforts of neighborhood groups, Scout troops, families and individuals who picked up
litter and recyclables from roadways on Earth Day; and by community residents and League of
Women Voters members who helped out on Household Hazardous Waste Day.

For easy access to timely recycling information residents can visit the Town’s website's
recycling pages at www.town.boxford.ma.us. Check out www.freecycle.org. Remember to “Buy
Recycled”: buying recycled products is critical to making recycling cost-effective for our town
by creating markets for the materials we collect.

Please find below the total amount of materials recycled in Boxford during calendar year 2016

MATERIALS TONS UNITS

Mixed Paper & Cardboard 578
Commingled 468
(Plastics #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 #7; Glass; Aluminum cans; Tin cans)

TOTAL CURBSIDE 1046

Corrugated Cardboard 88 Tires 127 car
Scrap Metal & Appliances 45 Auto Batteries 33

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