Recycling
Residential curbside trash and recycling is picked up by automated side-load trucks. All of your household's trash and recycling go into your 96-gallon trash bin, which is provided to you by the City and is tagged with a unique code that corresponds to your address. All trash and recycling must fit in the bin and the lid must close in order for the truck to pick it up.
Please put your bin out no later than 6:30am on the scheduled day for pickup.
Click here for container placement guide
PLEASE NOTE:
All trash and recycling can go into your bin. Please break down cardboard and plastic as best as you can to create room. Please do not pack your bin so tightly that the contents will not fall out when it is tipped upside-down by the automated trucks. All trash and recycling must fit in the bin and the lid must close in order for the truck to pick it up.
Schedule changes will be announced on the City's Facebook and Twitter pages. Citizens can sign up for email notifications by visiting bangormaine.gov/subscribe and scrolling down to select Curbside Trash Collection Notifications.
If you move from your current address in Bangor, please leave your trash bin at your old address. Trash bins are tagged with unique numbers that correspond to each street address. In addition, if you did pay for an additional bin and move from your current address to a new address in Bangor, you may take that with you, but please call 207-992-4500 or email Public Works with the serial number of the bin so that we can update our records.
Disposing of Cardboard
Residents can drop off clean waste cardboard for recycling at Public Works. Material is accepted at 530 Maine Avenue, from 7:00 am to sunset, 7 days per week. Cardboard must be broken down in order to fit in the dumpster. Cardboard that is soiled with food, grease, oil, or filled with packing materials (packing peanuts, styrofoam, plastic) will not be accepted. These will contaminate a load and prevent it from being recycled. Only Bangor resident household cardboard can be disposed of in these dumpsters- business waste is NOT permitted and non-resident cardboard is NOT permitted.
Listing files in 'Recycling'
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For questions about recycling collection, please call Casella at (800) CASELLA
(800-227-3552)
Holiday Service Schedule
New Year’s Day – Regular service schedule the week before and week after the holiday
Memorial Day – Service delayed by one day all week
Independence Day – Service delayed by one day Tue thru Fri only
Labor Day – Service delayed by one day all week
Thanksgiving Day – Service delayed by one day Thu & Fri only
Christmas Day – Service delayed by one day all week
New Year’s Day – Service delayed by one day all week
General guidelines
If your regular collection day occurs on a day before the holiday, your rubbish/recycling will be collected on its regular day.
If your regular collection occurs on one of the weekday holidays, your rubbish/recycling will be collected the next day.
If your regular collection occurs after a weekday holiday, your rubbish/recycling will be collected one day later than normal.
See the holiday schedule listed above for information about specific holidays.
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