Everett, MA Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)

Chapter 16, Article III of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Everett, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, sets the framework for curbside service. Section 16-52 puts the duty to collect acceptable solid waste, and to provide for its disposal, on the city services commission. Section 16-55(b) adds that acceptable solid waste is collected in accordance with a schedule published by the commission. The ordinance prints no weekday, so the day for a given street is whatever the published schedule says.

Section 16-51 defines what counts as acceptable waste: solid waste, garbage, rubbish, ordinary commercial waste, and garden and lawn waste such as grass, leaves, brush and trimmings. Ordinary commercial waste is capped at seven fifty-five gallon barrels of not more than fifty pounds each. Every barrel must carry the business name and address in letters visible from ten feet, and a sub-paragraph separately limits each commercial building to ten barrels placed out for collection per week. Non-acceptable waste includes building and construction waste, tree stumps, trunks or limbs over five inches in diameter or forty-eight inches in length, white goods, animal remains and abandoned motor vehicles.

The container duty sits in Section 16-53(b). Occupants of every single-family or two-family dwelling, the owner or agent of every dwelling housing more than two families, and the owner or operator of any business must provide, keep clean and keep in good repair proper and sufficient containers whenever waste accumulates. Section 16-26(a) adds that every residence on city or approved-contractor collection must have enough container capacity for its normal volume of waste between collections. Section 16-56 directs the city services commission to adopt, revise and enforce rules for managing solid waste and to inspect the municipal solid waste system periodically.