Resource Recovery Center Hours:

June 1- September 27 (Summer hours)
Tuesday – Friday: 7am – 3:30pm
Saturday: 7am – 2:30pm
Closed Mondays, Sundays, holidays, and occasionally due to heavy rain.

The Center will be closed Friday, June 19, in observance of the Juneteenth Day holiday.

To make a household hazardous waste drop-off appointment, click here.

Newton’s recycling program depends on you—help prevent contamination by recycling right!  Click here to learn more. Our Recycle Right Newton tool below and in the app tells you what to recycle and where and sends reminders about your curbside collection schedule.

The MA Beyond the Bin search tool helps you find local recycling outlets for difficult to recycle items.

News & Updates

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Newton's SMM user guide to recycling, trash, and composting, published in 2025, provides a quick overview of our services. Let us know what you think of it!

Recycling

• At the curb: Our educational materials including the Recycle Right flyer (now available in simplified Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese).
• Drop-off: Visit our Recycle at the Resource Recovery Center page to see the 25+ types of materials you can drop off for recycling, donation, or composting.
• MA Recycle Smart program has a great recycling lookup tool and a curbside recycling guide available in 9 languages.  

Textiles (clothes, shoes, linens etc.)
Clean, dry textiles, in any condition, can be donated. Newton partners with Helpsy for textile donation to offer clothing/textile drop-off locations and curbside collection service.

Yard waste & Christmas trees
Newton residents may drop off yard waste and Christmas trees at Newton's Resource Recovery Center all year long.

Read the new Recommendations to Rethink Curbside Collection Services Report.

Did you know that smaller, easier to manage 35-gallon carts are available to residents upon request? Please contact customer service at 617-796-1000 to swap your larger carts for smaller ones. *Note that the option to swap for a smaller cart applies to both trash and recycling or only trash. There cannot be a smaller recycling cart with a larger trash cart. 

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