Town of Ipswich

Click on the following link to fill out and send a DWP Work Request: DPW WORK REQUEST

**New ** at the Transfer Station: We will be collecting waste cooking oil! Save yours in a container with a screw top. Drop off the oil and the container for recycling at the TRansfer Station starting JAn 19th. The oil will be made into Biodiesel fuel by SmartFuel America.

Save yOur Styrofoam (SOS)!

Collection is free to residents and the next collection date will be May 18, 2013. Styrofoam with recycling symbol #6 will be accepted. It should be clean and dry! Thank you. Sponsored by the Recycling Advisory Committee. Call 978 356 6613 with questions.

Next Special Collection: May 18th, 2013 for oil based paint and thinners at the Transfer Station

The Transfer Station takes household scrap metal, car batteries, appliances (stoves, refridgerators, air conditioners are all OK!) and fluorescent tubes and CFL bulbs year round during regular operating hours. Call 978 356 6613 with questions.

New at the Transfer Station:
You can now bring your recycling to the Transfer Station! "Curbside" recycling can be brought to the containers during operating hours. This is for condominiums and apartments that do not have recycling pick up or for people who are away on their recycling day and do not want to leave it around for another week. We welcome residents to bring rinsed metal, glass and plastic containers as well as all clean paper and cardboard to the containers located to the left as you enter the Transfer Station. (NO Styrofoam and No plastic bags of any type) We also accept appliances, lawn and garden equipment and any items at least 60% metal in our scrap metal container and large rigid plastic items (kid's toys, yard chairs, etc.) in our Rigid Plastic containers. Call DPW with questions or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
The Transfer Station is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8-3:30 and you need a valid beach sticker or Transfer Station permit (free from the DPW) to enter.

DPW Office:

The DPW office is at Town Hall and is open Mondays 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesdays – Thursdays 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 12 Noon. Offices are closed on weekends and holidays.

Transfer Station:

Transfer Station is located at 180 Town Farm Road and is open Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8-3:30. It is open to all residents with a beach sticker or with a Transfer Station permit (free at DPW office at Town Hall). We accept items that contain mercury (thermometers, thermostats, fluorescent light bulbs), yard waste, large rigid plastic items, and scrap metal (gas grills, lawn mowers, metal shelving, appliances etc.) plus there are now containers for curbside recycling materials.

• [LINK] Ipswich Recycles Website
• [LINK] Citizen Request for American Elm Tree Wood

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