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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 an April Earth Day
celebration in conjunction with the Boxford Village Garden Club and our twenty-ninth annual
Household Hazardous Waste collection day with the towns of Topsfield and Middleton in
November. Our 2016 HHW collection will be held on Nov. 12th. 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 homemade
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 2014 MATERIALS
TONS UNITS

Mixed Paper & Cardboard 567
Commingled 487
(Plastics #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 #7; Glass; Aluminum cans; Tin cans)

TOTAL CURBSIDE 1054

Corrugated Cardboard 54 Tires 172 car
Scrap Metal & Appliances 68 Auto Batteries 35
Computers/TV 21 Motor Oil 785 gallons
Recycle That (books & textiles) 3 Oil Filters 2 (55-gal )
Salvation Army bins 5 Propane Tanks 52 tanks

EST. DROP-OFF 151

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