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WACHUSETT WATERSHED REGIONAL RECYCLING CENTER
UPDATE AND SUMMER COLLECTION INFORMATION
Wachusett Watershed Regional Recycling Center, 131 Raymond Huntington Highway, West Boylston will be open for two July and two August collections this summer. The collection dates are:
- Wednesday, July 7 from 3 to 6 p.m.
- Saturday, July 17 from 8 to 12 a.m.
- Saturday, August 7 from 8 to 11 a.m.
- Wednesday, August 18 from 3 to 6 p.m.
Bulk items and recycling will be accepted on all four days.~ Appliances, electronics and other bulk items will be collected for a fee.~~ Recycling items, mercury, batteries, bicycles and good used household furnishings will be collected at no cost.~ Wachusett Earthday, the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Towns of Boylston, Holden, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland, Sterling and West Boylston are partners in offering the collection for residents of seven Wachusett towns.
On Saturday, July 17, from 8 a.m. to noon the regional center will also collect household paints and chemicals including oil, antifreeze, paint and paint products, pesticides, herbicides, cleaners and pool chemicals.~ Latex paints are not hazardous and may be disposed of in household trash once they've been dried out.~ If you wish, you may consolidate paint to reduce your disposal cost.~ Do not mix latex and oil paints.~ Cost for paints and chemicals is $4 per gallon or per pound.~
Items which will be collected for a fee are computer monitors ($3 per monitor), TVs ($10 each),~ wood console and extra large TVs ($15 each), large appliances and metal machines including washers, dryers, stoves, hot water heaters and snow blowers, swing sets or other scrap metal ($5 each), small appliances including lawn mowers and microwaves ($2/each) items with refrigerants such as refrigerators, dehumidifiers, freezers or air conditioners ($15 each), furniture including mattresses, box springs, couches ($5 each), sleeper couches ($10 each), small quantities of household project debris such as wood, bricks, concrete, wallboard is ($30/cubic yard), car tires~ ($2~ per tire with or without rims), truck tires at larger than19" and larger equipment tires $10-$80 each), propane tanks ($4 per 20 pound or
smaller tank, $40 per larger tank).
Items accepted with no fee are mercury thermometers and other mercury items, fluorescent tubes and all batteries sorted by type, all computer parts except monitors, bicycles, good used furniture, home furnishings and appliances, paper, cardboard, #6 clean styrofoam, plastics, metal cans, glass.
On Saturday, July 17 only, from 8 a.m. to 12 noon the collection will also include paints and household chemicals with a fee.
Directions:~ I-190, Exit 5, north one block on Route 140 to light, left on Legg Road and travel 0.8 mile to the entrance on the right.~ Or Laurel Street, West Boylston or Manning Street, Holden to Raymond~ Huntington Highway (parallel with I-190 at Holden/West Boylston town line), and travel 0.9 mile to the entrance on the left.
New volunteers are welcome.~ Come help Earthday to grow and continue to serve seven Wachusett watershed communities with recycling, reuse and household hazardous products management.~ Check your town web site for details of collections. Questions to Wachusett Earthday, Colleen Abrams at 508-829-3954.
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