Needham's dump is the town's Recycling and Transfer Station (RTS) at 1421 Central Avenue. It's open Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Friday, 7 a.m. to noon; closed Sundays and Mondays.
Resident stickers are now free, and the gray sticker doesn't need renewing. Trash goes in Needham's yellow pay-per-throw bags, most recycling is free, and bulky clean-outs are $220 a ton.
Town of Needham
1421 Central Ave., Needham, MA 02492 Directions
| Tue–Thu | 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
| Friday | 7:00 a.m. – noon |
| Saturday | 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
| Sun & Mon | Closed |
Only vehicles with a current RTS sticker get in. Scale-house payments by check or card; cash only at Town Hall.
Needham runs a two-tier pay-per-throw system. The sticker gets you in (residents get one free from the Town Clerk at Town Hall, 1471 Highland Ave.), and household trash has to go in special yellow Needham trash bags, sold in large (30-gallon) and small (15-gallon) sizes at local stores. The bag price pays for running the RTS, so recycling more and throwing away less saves money.
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Resident sticker | Free |
| Household trash | Yellow Needham bag |
| Most recycling | Free |
| Bulky waste and clean-outs | $220 a ton (scale) |
| Appliances with Freon, tires | Fee items |
| Mattresses | Taken for recycling (commercial: $50) |
From the town's RTS page. Pay at the scale house by check or credit card, or at Town Hall by cash, check or card.
Every Massachusetts rate we've verified is side by side in our guide to what it costs to dump in Massachusetts.
The Re-Use-It Swap Shop is open Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Friday 7:30 a.m. to noon; take what you can use, leave what still works. Paint is collected on the third Saturday of the month, April through October (the Swap Shop closes those days), and surplus paint is free to take. The town also holds household hazardous waste days at the RTS.
Massachusetts bans a long list of items from trash and landfills: mattresses and clothing and textiles (since November 2022), large appliances, car batteries, whole tires, old tube TVs and monitors, leaves and yard waste, scrap metal, and recyclable bottles, cans, paper and cardboard. Town transfer stations collect them separately, often for a fee.
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