Town-wide residential curbside trash and recycling collection is provided on a contract basis awarded through competitive bid to a private firm. The current contractor is All American Waste of South Windsor, CT. Murphy Road Recycling holds a contract to dispose Manchester's curbside trash. Residents can also bring their trash and recyclables to the Transfer Station.
For information on what can be recycled in your blue bin, visit our Sustainable Waste Management page and select the "Recycle" tab at the top. For curbside collection questions or complaints, please call 860-647-3200, and select option 1.
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Trash will only be collected in the Town-issued containers (Town of Manchester wheeled grey 65 gallon carts). Trash is not collected in cardboard boxes or plastic bags. Trash will not be collected if container (cart) is overloaded (the cover must be halfway closed).
Trash must be at the curb at 6:00 a.m. on your regular collection day. If refuse is not out on time, collection crews will not go back to pick it up. Your trash will have to be removed from the curb to be picked up on your next collection day.
Town ordinance prohibits trash and/or recycling carts from being placed at the curb prior to 12:00 noon on the day prior to the street's designated collection day and requires the removal of the empty trash and/or recycling cart from the curb by 12:00 noon on the day following the designated collection day.
As of July 1, 2018, residents that wish to utilize more than one trash cart for their dwelling will need to purchase an annual subscription cart through our curbside collection contractor, All American Waste. The annual cost of the subscription cart is $200 ($3.85 per week) for an All American Waste (AAW) branded 95 gallon trash cart. AAW will deliver the subscription cart to your home; you are leasing it from them. To arrange for a subscription, please call All American Waste directly by phone at 860-289-7850 or by email to manchester@aawllc.com
Curbside collections can run late. If your trash was out by 6:00 a.m. but was not picked up by the morning after your collection day, please call 860-647-3200, etc. 1
To learn more about recycling and how to produce less waste, go to our Sustainable Waste Management page!
Sustainable Waste Management
Download the Curbside Recycling Guide Here(PDF, 2MB)
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See "Garbage and Recycling Day Lookup" below to find out which day of the week you trash and recycling pick-up is and if you recycling collection falls on an "A Week" or a "B Week". Then use the schedule, linked below, to find out when "A Weeks" and "B Weeks" occur.
Garbage and Recycling Day Lookup
Type the name of your street in the box below to find the day garbage and recycling is on your street (some web browsers, like Firefox, require users to hit "Enter" after selecting their street).
(NOTE: You do not have to type your street's full name. Typing Broad will return 'BROAD ST').
*Holiday Schedule*
There is NO curbside collection on the following holidays:
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day - July 4th
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Christmas Day (25th)
- New Years Day (1st)
When one of these holidays occurs on a regularly scheduled collection day, collection will be delayed one day for the rest of the week. For example: If a holiday falls on a Monday, then Monday's collection will be on Tuesday; and Tuesday's collection will be on Wednesday and so on. There also will be a Saturday pickup for Friday's collection. These are the ONLY holidays that result in a change in the collection schedule. Other holidays when Town Hall or schools are closed does not affect refuse and recycling collection.
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Leaves are prohibited by State law and local ordinance from going into a landfill. Manchester operates a state-of-the-art composting program. Several different leaf collection and disposal options are available to Manchester residents. This section covers curbside collection. To find out information on how to drop-off leaves and yard waste at the Transfer Station, visit our Transfer Station webpage!
Manchester Transfer Station
Vacuum Collection
The Town performs a one-time around pass with leaf vacuuming trucks to remove loose piles of leaves from the curb. Historically, collection starts at the end of October or in early November. This operation is handled and managed by the Town's Highway Division. Check out the link below for more information on the Town's Vacuum Leaf Collection Program.
Leaf Vacuum Collection Program Details
Brush Collection
Brush must be bundled, tied, and placed at the curb on your regularly scheduled refuse collection day. Brush will only be accepted if the branches are less than 4 inches thick, are cut to 4 feet or less in length, and weigh a total of 40 pounds or less. This service operates for 10 months of the year, beginning on the 3rd Monday in March and finishing on Friday of the 2nd full week the following January.
Bagged Collection
Leaves must be placed in yard waste paper bags and placed at the curb on your regularly scheduled refuse collection day. This service operates for 10 months of the year, beginning on the 3rd Monday in March and finishing on Friday of the 2nd full week the following January. Leaves will not be collected in plastic bags or any other type of container besides brown paper yard waste bags. See below for locations of where Paper Bags are sold to residents directly by the Town. You are also welcome to use any yard waste bag sold locally in retail stores.
Grass Clippings
Utilize your grass clippings efficiently. Bag them for curbside collection (available for 10 months each year, March to mid-January) with a 40-pound limit per bag. Alternatively, consider using mulching mowers, which recycle clippings into your lawn, saving time, conserving moisture, and replenishing nutrients.
Backyard composting is a great option for grass, garden, and kitchen waste. Get a composting unit from a store or make one yourself for a sustainable source of compost.
For garden improvement, use mowed grass as mulch between rows and around plants. These practices benefit both your lawn and garden.
Leaf Compost
Through the miracle of Mother Nature (and with a little help from the employees in the Sanitation Division), leaves are turned into rich, organic compost in 3-6 months. Temperature and moisture are the two main factors that determine how quickly the leafy materials break down. Compost is a great mulch for flower beds and gardens and can also be used as a soil amendment. Compost is available for sale at the Landfill at 311 Olcott Street.
Compost is available for sale during Transfer Station open hours.
Compost is FREE for all Manchester Residents.
Manchester residents may pick-up free compost at the transfer station by showing proof of Manchester residency (Driver's License). Compost pick-up is self-service, you will need to bring your own containers, gloves & shovel.
For non Manchester residents, the rates for compost are based on container or truck size.
$1.00 per 30 gallons approximately the size of a trash can/paper leaf bag.
$10.00 for small pickup truck load – 6ft.
$15.00 for large pickup truck load -- 8ft.
This is a self-serve resource. You will need to bring a shovel or other means of loading your receptacle.
Christmas Trees
Residents that are served by the Town's curbside collection program may leave their Christmas trees out at the curb for pickup on their typical trash collection day through January 16, 2026. Trees contaminated with plastic bags, ornaments, lights or stands will not be collected. Please note that trees buried in snow will also not be collected, as they need to be accessible by the hauler.
After the final collections have occurred (during the week of January 8th through January 12th), trees must be brought to the Transfer Station for disposal. For more information on disposal at the Transfer Station, visit our Transfer Station page.
Transfer Station
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Residents that are served by the Town's curbside collection program are allowed to schedule two (2) free bulk waste pick ups a year.
The below items are eligible for scheduled curbside bulk waste pick-ups:
Please note that these items will be collected by a truck that is different from the automated garbage truck that collects the trash. In addition items in different categories will be picked up by different trucks.
The following items are NOT collected at the curb:
Customer Education Tag
Eligible Bulk materials placed out for collection improperly or without a scheduled appointment will receive an orange Customer Education Tag. Residents have three (3) days to schedule an appointment for pick up by All American Waste or to remove the items from the curb.
Notice of Violation
Not eligible bulk materials will receive a green Notice of Violation. Residents will have three (3) days to remove the items from the curbside and to properly dispose of them. If the items remain on the curb after three (3) days, the items will be removed by the town, and the owner of the home will be fined for the cost of removal.
Bulk materials can also be delivered to the Transfer Station by residents for disposal for a nominal fee; a Recycling Permit is required for the Transfer Station.
Solid Waste, including any and all Bulky Waste, is prohibited from being placed at the curb/sidewalk prior to 12:00 noon on the day prior to the street's designated collection day and requires the removal of any remaining solid waste from the curb by 12:00 noon on the day following the designated collection day. Also, Solid Waste placed at the curb may not block or create a safety concern for any and all part of a sidewalk per Town of Manchester Code chapter 209-4. Failure to follow these guidelines can result in a fine.
Please Note: Please refer to the Solid Waste Ordinance section of this webpage to learn more about this procedure the rules and guidelines.
If you have any questions about these rules and regulations, please contact the Sanitation Division at 860-647-3200, option 4.
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Neighborhood Inspection Officer
The Sanitation Division's Neighborhood Inspection Officer is Alex Cotto. Mr. Cotto enforces various enforcement provisions under the Town's code of ordinances and Sanitation Division programs, procedures, and rules and regulations. You can reach Mr. Cotto by email (
acotto@manchesterct.gov) or phone (
860-918-0186).
File a Complaint
To file a complaint, please do so through the Town's
MarkIT GIS system. The Town requests that all complaints be filed via MarkIT for record keeping purposes as MarkIT complaints are driven by property location and address.
Sanitation related MarkIT complaint categories include: Bulky Waste Violation, Curbside Collection Issue, and Illegal Dumping.
Solid Waste Ordinance
To read the full text of the Solid Waste Ordinance, please go to the Town of Manchester ecode website through the link below.
Chapter 273: Solid Waste
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Who receives the Town's Single-Stream recycling collection?
The Town of Manchester provides curbside collection services to all single-family homes in the Town, as well as multi-family buildings that have up to four (4) individual dwelling units for trash, recycling, yard waste and bulky waste.
The Town doesn't collect from my condo/apartment, can I still recycle the materials that the Town collects?
If you live in an apartment or condominium and do not have access to the Town's curbside recycling collection, you can still recycle at the Town's Transfer Station. The Transfer Station accepts all of the same recyclable materials that are collected in the Blue Recycling Carts.
When is my recycling collected, now that the Town is on a bi-weekly collection schedule?
The "Garbage and Recycling Day Lookup" tool on this page has a schedule of recycling routes, which allows you to search by your street address. A calendar with the recycling schedule will also be delivered with your Blue Recycling Cart. Your recycling collection will continue to be the same day as your trash collection, it will just be every other week.
Can I use the blue recycling cart for trash or yard-waste collection?
No. The blue carts are only for recycling only. Please place recyclable materials loose into the Blue Recycling Cart, no plastic bags please. Trash should be placed in your Green Trash Cart and yard-waste should be bagged in a Brown Kraft Bag for curbside collection. Yard-waste bags are sold by the Town and available at the Transfer Station/Landfill and Town Hall, as well as several local retailers and grocery stores.