• HOUSEHOLD RUBBISH
• 2009 HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
• CURBSIDE RECYCLING COLLECTION
• BULKY WASTE CURBSIDE COLLECTION

Weekly Collection, Monday through Friday

Place your waste curbside in a single location in front of your property no earlier than 7:00 p.m. the day before and no later than 7:30 am the day of your scheduled pick up. In the business district waste shall not be placed curbside prior to 4:30 pm on Mondays.

Please note, the City has the right to inspect any curbside rubbish to ensure compliance with local, state and federal regulations.

Private residents may place curbside no more than 3 barrels of 50 pounds each; businesses may place curbside no more than 9 barrels of 50 pounds each. For the City's Solid Waste Ordinances, click here.

It is mandatory to recycle. For details of the recycling program and services click here.

Click here for the Portsmouth Trash and Recycling Collection Route Map

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Yard waste is collected curbside April 6 through November 30. 

Christmas trees are collected curbside January 4 through 15, 2010.

Recycling is mandatory for fiber/paper and comingled recyclables. Recycling makes "cents" in Portsmouth - it saves tax payer dollars and frees up much needed dollars for other City projects.

Cans, glass and plastic bottles should be rinsed out before being put in the green recycling bins and placed curbside on regular trash collection days. Lids, caps, corks and neck rings must be removed. Paper shall be placed curbside in one of three ways

1) in paper grocery bags,

2) or securely tied in flat bundles or

3) placed in a green recycling bin - separate from the commingled containers.

Recyclable paper includes newspapers, junk mail, inserts, magazines, office paper and manila folders, phone books, paperback books, paper board (cereal and pasta boxes), wax-coated milk and juice cartons and paper egg cartons.

For more informion on what to recycle please click here

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To schedule curbside bulky waste collection:

• Please call 2 business days in advance of your regualar trash pick up day - (603) 427-1530
• Public Works will schedule date(s) for collection of specified materials
• Place the specified material(s) curbside no earlier than 7:00p.m. the evening before the scheduled pick-up date
• The Public Works Department will collect the material on the specified date(s)

Materials must be separated from weekly trash placed curbside, as directed by the Department of Public Works and in accord with the solid waste ordinance.

Bulky waste will be collected on the following designated weeks of the month:

1st week:	furniture & miscellaneous items
2nd week:	appliances and other scrap metal (including freon continuing units, such as refrigerators)
3rd week:	tires, TVs, computers and other electronics
4th week:	wood scraps (clean, painted & treated wood, pallets, etc.)

Residents are not to place the waste curbside without scheduling a collection date with Public Works.

The solid waste services and programs were put in place with fiscal responsibility in mind, as well as complying with environmental regulations.

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