Trash & Refuse
Questions? Please contact:
Waste Management: (716) 496-5000
Town of Colden: (716) 941-5012
New for 2022: At Your Door Service
Waste Management’s At Your Door Special Collection® service can safely collect many types of unwanted potentially hazardous and hard-to-recycle items from your home. See the video below for a quick run-down, or click the following link to see which items are able to be collected or to schedule a pick-up: https://wmatyourdoor.com/residential/.
Garbage & Recycling must be placed by 6:00a.m. on Tuesday.
Containers shall not weigh more than 70 lbs. when filled or are not to exceed 30 gallon capacity.
Each week you are allowed to place only:
- 4 Items of Refuse
- Your “Green Recycle Bin”
- 1 Large Bulk Item
Large bulk items include, but are not limited to:
- Furniture
- Mattresses
- Box Springs
- Carpeting cut into pieces
- Appliances
Items not picked up:
- Pesticides
- Yard Waste
- Oil Solvents
- Flammable Liquids
- Explosives
- Gas Tanks
- Lawn Mowers
- Gas Grills
- Animal Carcasses
- Fecal Matter
- Industrial Wastes
- Other Regulated Hazardous Waste – Or – or any Commercially Produced Construction Materials
- Sharps Containers cannot be picked up. Any Sharps Containers may be taken to any hospital for disposal.
All windows and doors must have glass removed and contained.
Holiday Schedule:
If your collection day is on or follows any of these holidays during the week, then your collection day will be on Wednesday –
- New Year’s Day
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Christmas Day