Brochures & Flyers

• Curbside Collection 101- updated July 2024!
• Curbside and Drop-Off Recycling Services- updates coming soon!
• Electronics Recycling
• Composting
• Food: Too Good To Waste
• Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program
• Responsible Sharps Disposal
• Recycle Right Flyer (English) (Simplified Chinese) (Russian) (Spanish) (Portuguese)
• Waste Reduction & Reuse

Guidance For Schools

• Recycling and Organics (food waste) Guidance- Overview (New!)
• Recycling and Organics (food waste)- 5 Step Implementation (New!)
• How to Sort School Recycling, Trash and Food Waste- FAQ (updated 4/2024) 
  
• Sample message to your school community about new recycling (and optional food waste collection) efforts 

Office/Classroom Signage

• Two Steps to Make Classroom Recycling Easier
• Recycling Sign (Green)
• Recycling Sign (Blue)
• Trash Sign

Cafeteria/Kitchen Signage
Contact recycling@newtonma.gov for updated cafeteria recycling signs

• Recycling Sign (Green)
• Recycling Sign (Blue)
• Trash Sign (excludes food scraps)
• Trash Sign (includes food scraps)
• Food Scraps Sign

Videos

• What should go in the recycling bin at school -- and home. This award-winning video was created by the Mason-Rice Elementary School Green Team.
  
  

View the 2017 Newton Sustainable Materials Management Framework Report to learn about Newton's policies and programs.

To ask a question or get answers to our Frequently Asked Questions, please visit our online Customer Service Center.

To report missed recycling, trash or yard waste or to schedule a pickup of appliances/electronics or bulky waste:

• please contact DPW Customer Service by dialing 311 from any Newton landline.
• or make an online service request.

For all other inquires:

• Phone: (617) 796-1000
• Email

Volunteer to help with ongoing programs, review educational materials, and work on projects.

Request a tour for your community group to see where stuff goes when we throw it “away” or recycle it.

Subscribe to our newsletter, the Green Cart Chronicle!

See past issues below: 

• October 2024 Fall Events and yard waste
• February 2024 Expanded efforts to get food waste out of the trash/recycling
• November 2023 Yard waste
• July 2023 Recycling education- volunteers needed; recycling ordinance
• April 2023 Earth day events
• March 2023 Spring events
• February 2023: Recycling plastics
• October 2021
• July 2021
• April 2021
• February 2021
• December 2020
• November 2020
• October 2020
• July 2020
• June 2020
• April 2020
• February 2020
• September 2019
• Summer 2019
• Winter 2019
• Spring/Summer 2018
• Winter 2017
• September 2017
• Spring 2017
• March 2015
• April 2014