The Framingham DPW has been enforcing the guidelines regarding waste and recycling pickup.\u00a0 Trash barrels that\u00a0hold more than 35 gallons are getting stickered.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Disposal is limited to 3 barrels holding no more than 35 gallons and weighing no more than 40 each, or the equivalent.<\/p>\n
These limitations save the town money and reduce worker injuries.<\/p>\n
The Town's website has an extensive list of questions and answers about the solid waste policy and how and why it is enforced.<\/p>\n
The larger yellow barrels, available at the Recycling Drop-Off Center and at the DPW office make recycling easier than ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The more we recycle and comply with the regulations, the better.\u00a0 And maybe the longer we have before going to a \"pay as we throw\" system.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And to think, back in the day of Tony Colona, we had trash pickup twice a week!\u00a0 We were the envy of all our friends and family members who didn't live in town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Framingham DPW has been enforcing the guidelines regarding waste and recycling pickup.\u00a0 Trash barrels that\u00a0hold more than 35 gallons are getting stickered.\u00a0 Disposal is limited to 3 barrels holding no more than 35 gallons and weighing no more than 40 each, or the equivalent. These limitations save the town money and reduce worker injuries. The Town’s… [read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}