Friday, April 19, 2013
Residents in many city neighborhoods should expect collection by 6 a.m. Saturday.
City workers will continue trash collection around Boston during the citywide shelter-in-place order, with pickup in the neighborhoods of Beacon Hill, Bay Village, Chinatown, the Leather District, the South End and the North End expected to be completed by 8 p.m. Friday. The notice was distributed via the city’s official Twitter account, @NotifyBoston at around 4:30 p.m. Friday, while the city remained under a lockdown. The neighborhoods of Allston and Brighton, Dorchester, Mission Hill, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, West Roxbury and Roslindale should have trash collected by 6 a.m. on Saturday, April 20, according to the Twitter alerts. If items in any neighborhoods are not collected by 6 a.m. Saturday, residents are …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Know when solid waste collection is happening during the holidays.
Trash collection around any holiday can be confusing, but when you've got several holidays strung together—and lots of added trash from those gift boxes and holiday parites—it's even harder to track. Here is the trash collection schedule for all Boston neighborhoods, including the South End: Christmas Week 2012 (Tuesday, Dec. 25 at 7 a.m. to Saturday, Dec. 29 at 5 p.m.) For Fenway, Lower Roxbury, Mission Hill, the South End and parts of Back Bay with a Tuesday collection, the next trash day will be Friday, Dec. 28. For Bay Village, Beacon Hill, Charlestown, Chinatown, Leather District, the North End, and parts of Back Bay with a Monday/Thursday collection trash will run on its regular schedule. In Allston, Brighton, Dorchester, East …
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
South Enders will have two extra months of street sweeping this year, but is this good news?
It's official: expect swept streets to begin in March and end in December. The city has a "Know Tow" automated alert system for those who will have trouble adjusting from the old April-November schedule, and signs are planned to go up in January alerting residents of the changes. Street-sweeping days are also planned to follow trash collection days, either by "one or two days," per the Mayor's Office. And according to Menino in our other story on the subject, "by realigning the street sweeping schedule to match the weekly trash collection operations, we’re smartly maximizing the potential of each program to keep our streets clean.” How do you feel about all this? Is this a step in the right direction or a move to increase revenue from …
topbanana
9:40 am on Thursday, December 29, 2011
the neighborhoods would be clean TEN months, not nine months as I mistakenly said above.....my bad. more ›