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Solid Waste Services
The Town's Solid Waste Services have been outsourced to Waste Industries. View the Waste Industries homepage to learn more about them. If you have questions about your service please call Waste Industries at 919-596-1363.
Collection Days & Information
- Letter to Residents from Waste Industries (PDF)
- List of recyclable materials (PDF) - what you can place in your bin
- 2023 GFL Trash and Recycling Pickup Schedule
- All residents on and north of Salisbury Street and All residents on and north of Thompson Street will be served on Tuesdays. The south side of town will be served on Wednesdays. View a map of the collection schedule (JPG).
- Aluminum cans
- Bond stock
- Brochures
- Business cards
- Colored paper
- Computer printouts (no carbon)
- Cooking oil bottles
- Detergent bottles
- Drawing paper
- Envelopes (windowed and non-windowed)
- File folders
- Index cards/sheets
- Invoices
- Juice boxes
- Letterhead and forms
- Manila cards
- Meal cans (soup, tuna, etc.)
- Microwavable meal cartons and trays
- Milk cartons and jugs
- Newspaper
- Notepad paper
- Paperback books
- Phone books
- Photocopy paper
- Plastic beverage bottles
- Plastic take-out containers
- Post-it notes
- Register tape roll paper
- Unwaxed cardboard
- Writing paper
- Yogurt/margarine/cottage cheese containers
- Adhesive labels
- Boil-in-bag pouches
- Bubble wrap/peanut packaging
- CDs or CD cases
- Cellophane/shrink wrap
- Drink cups
- Food scraps/wrappers
- Hard bound books (glue in binding)
- Kleenex tissue
- Meat trays
- Metal binder clips
- Paper towels
- Paperback books (glue in binding)
- Phone books (glue in binding)
- Plastic grocery bags
- Rubber hoses
- Rubber tires
- Self carbonized paper
- Soiled pizza boxes
- Solo cups
- Sticky tape
- Styrofoam egg cartons
- Styrofoam
- Trash bags/bread bags
- Typewriter ribbons