Curbside Pickup Rules

            Curbside Trash Pick-up In Buxton          

The Transfer Station is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays from 8am to 4pm.

The Transfer Station’s phone # is 929-3913, e-mail: buxtonts@buxton.me.us  Web Site: www.buxton.me.us

Casella provides Buxton’s curbside trash pick-up services and can be reached at 883-9777 or 934-3880.

Trash must be out by 6 am in order to be picked up

Pick-up times will change frequently.  If you get used to a certain pick-up time for your neighborhood & want to risk putting your trash out after 6 am, you may do so at your own risk.  There will be times when a truck breaks down or a crew gets sick, and the trash pick-up time will change.  If this happens & you put your trash out after 6am, it’s not the trash company or the Town of Buxton’s responsibility to take care of your missed trash.  Your options are to bring your trash to the Transfer Station and pay $1 per bag or put it out the next week if you can still meet the weekly curbside limit of 96 gallons of trash.

There will be no curbside pick-up on Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, July 4th, and Thanksgiving Day.

If one of these holidays falls on your pick-up day, pick-up will be on the following Friday.  All other holidays will be picked up on the regular day.  Snowstorms do not affect the curbside pick-up schedule.  Trash bags left too close to the side of the road may get buried or ripped apart by the snowplow.  It is unlikely the trash truck will see white trash bags under white snow. The Transfer Station will accept household trash for free if you don’t want to put it out during a storm.  Casella personnel are not allowed to cross the street to pick up trash.  The truck does one side of the street at a time.  If you put your trash out after they have done your side of the street, they will not pick it up when they do the other side of the street.                                                                                                                                              

       The following items are unacceptable curbside waste, and will NOT be picked up by the garbage truck:

• Any waste not enclosed in a garbage bag. Loose items on the ground or in a garbage can are not acceptable.
• Car or other vehicle batteries, tires, or parts
• Commercial waste (see definition below)
• Any waste not produced from a lot with a legally occupied Buxton residence
• Computers, monitors, television sets, printers, scanners, or cell phones
• Dead animals or portions thereof, or other pathological, medical, or biological wastes
• Demolition or construction debris including sheetrock and  pressure treated wood
• Hazardous waste such as fertilizers, pesticides, oil based paint, explosives, solvents, or other chemical agents
• Inert wastes such as bricks, concrete, asphalt, soil, porcelain fixtures, or rocks
• Junk vehicles or other bulky metal items including white goods (appliances)
• Leaves, pine needles, grass, manure, animal bedding, hay, or garden clippings (Compost these materials for free at the Transfer Station)
• Liquid waste, sludge, oils (including motor oil), or water treatment residues (bring oils to the Transfer Station)
• Mercury containing items such as fluorescent bulbs, thermometers, and thermostats (bring to Transfer Station)
• Tree or bush stumps, trunks, limbs, brush, or ashes

No more than seven 13-gallon bags (standard white kitchen sized garbage bags), or three 32-gallon bags (black leaf bags), or any combination of trash containers reaching a total of not more than 96 gallons of Acceptable Curbside Waste shall be picked up per week per household.  Anything over the bag limit will be left behind.  Each container of Acceptable Curbside Waste must weigh thirty-five pounds or less.  Uncovered garbage cans may be too heavy for pick-up if rained upon. Drilling holes in the bottom of your cans will help to drain the rainwater.  Acceptable Curbside Waste must be placed within six feet of the road no later than 6am on the day of scheduled pick up, but not before 6pm of the previous evening.  Garbage cans must be removed from the road side by 11pm of the day of pickup.  It is the responsibility of residents to clean up any waste that escapes from their container(s). Small plastic shopping bags, cardboard boxes, and paper bags are not considered acceptable containers.  Buxton does not have curbside recycling.  Recyclable materials left with your curbside trash will not be recycled. 

Attention business owners and landlords:

Commercial Waste:  Shall mean any waste from residential dwellings or trailer parks with more than two (2) units, and any waste from a business or institution that is not considered a home based business or occupation. All such commercial properties must have a dumpster on site for trash disposal purposes, or have another arrangement for trash disposal that has been preapproved by the Town.  A home based business or occupation is defined in the Buxton planning ordinance. For the purposes of curbside waste removal services, home based businesses or occupations shall not be considered commercial, but must abide by the same curbside pickup rules and limitations as other residential properties.  Any residential dwelling with three units will not be considered commercial for the purposes of curbside waste removal services if the owner of the property resides in one of the units.  Any building(s) under construction or demolition, whether commercial, institutional, or residential, are considered commercial for the purposes of curbside waste removal services.