Recyclables are banned from the trash across Plymouth County by the MassDEP waste ban at 310 CMR 19.017. Glass, metal, and plastic containers, paper, cardboard, and leaf and yard waste must be separated and diverted, not landfilled or burned.
Recycling is mandatory statewide through the disposal ban, so it applies uniformly across every Plymouth County community. Under 310 CMR 19.017, glass, metal, and plastic containers, paper including cardboard, single resin plastics, leaf and yard waste, lead-acid batteries, and commercial food or organic waste from generators of one-half ton or more per week are restricted materials that may not be disposed of as trash. Plymouth collects single-stream recycling biweekly and takes cardboard, glass, plastics #1 through 7, and aluminum. Brockton and the towns run curbside recycling or transfer station drop-off. Yard waste is collected seasonally, roughly April through December.
Mixing recyclables or yard waste into trash violates the state ban. Haulers can refuse contaminated carts, and MassDEP enforces the disposal restriction at the receiving facility rather than the household level.
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Plymouth County, MA
No Plymouth County or state law limits holiday lights, inflatables, or yard displays. Towns rarely regulate seasonal decorations at all, and where a bylaw to...
Plymouth County, MA
No Plymouth County rule governs garage-sale signs; towns handle them through local sign bylaws. On your own lawn a yard-sale sign is generally fine, but a si...
Plymouth County, MA
Towns, not Plymouth County, regulate signs, through zoning bylaws authorized by MGL c.40A. Those bylaws must stay content-neutral: after Reed v. Town of Gilb...
Plymouth County, MA
Rental registration and inspection are local powers, not county ones. The State Sanitary Code under MGL c.111 §127A lets each town's board of health enforce ...
Plymouth County, MA
Massachusetts has no statewide just-cause eviction law, and no Plymouth County town can add one. A landlord ends a tenancy at will with 30 days' written noti...
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Rent control is illegal across every Plymouth County community. Massachusetts voters banned it in 1994 through Question 9, now codified as MGL c.40P §4: no c...
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