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We accept curbside recycling items, textiles and many hard to recycle items (some with a fee), but we also have tons of free items for reuse. We hold document shredding, latex paint and household hazardous waste collection events a few times per year for residents of our member towns: Boylston, Holden, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland, Sterling and West Boylston.

We are NOT a transfer station or brush dump. DEP regulations prohibit us from accepting kitchen/picnic/food trash or lawn/brush waste or creosote lumber. As an almost completely all-volunteer operation, we rely on our volunteers to keep the site open. Please consider helping out, if only for one slot/week (or month).
Reviews (10)
Amy O'Keefe
Amy O'Keefe
Jan 02, 2022
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Great, run well. If your dropping off recycling, or going in to look for something recycled. It is well run, quick and efficient.
Alleah Friedrichs
Alleah Friedrichs
Jul 30, 2021
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How wonderful we have a place e to bring everything we need to discard. Feels great to limit what goes into the landfill. I LOVE that I can recycle styrofoam…real white styrofoam!
Sean Sullivan
Sean Sullivan
Jul 20, 2021
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Great way to keep waste out of landfills. The volunteers who staff the place are super friendly and helpful. The center is well-organized, clean, and safe. Selection of goods is hit-or-miss by the nature of the place, but you are sure to find something or other you like.
Sarah Mosher
Sarah Mosher
Jul 20, 2021
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Great spot to drop off used belongings. They have a store with low priced and free items.
Brian Chorsaway
Brian Chorsaway
Oct 13, 2020
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It’s a cool place to go to for hobby’s or collectors! I was overjoyed and happy to see they’re open now through the chaos that is covid! They’re extremely organized and have always been clean! I’ll say this regarding their employees (which I know some of them by their first name and they’re wonderful people!) yes some can be a little much at times but they’re people to and doing a job that probably isn’t the easiest at times. Work during covid before you go bashing a bunch of people, I have and it’s not fun.. we’re all out of sorts during all of this let alone working during
Carolyn Roux
Carolyn Roux
Sep 18, 2019
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Great place to bring items that others can use. People are great that work there. Before going I look through my home and make a donation.
It's a great service to the public and to our precious environment.
Rachel Utzig OneDoveAbove
Rachel Utzig OneDoveAbove
Sep 12, 2019
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A great local resource! In the reuse center, there are so many useful free things and it feels good to know they are being reused. A few things are for sale now, like jewelry and larger quantities of fabric, but even those prices are still very very low, lower than you'd find at most charity shops. I'm glad there's another way to financially support the operation now!
Michelle Hutchins
Michelle Hutchins
Jun 10, 2019
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Great place - such friendly and helpful workers! We dropped off a few things and left with a few things that were on my WalMart list, but for free! We had a blast and will be back with more donations and possibly shopping again soon.
Dorothy Robinson
Dorothy Robinson
Oct 04, 2018
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I recently visited the recycle center that I would get some things from for my daughter and home as needed such as books, toys, house hold goods and ect. Now they are selling all of that for an outrageous price when i thought it was a free organization. The volunteers that i have tried to talk to about the new change just brushed me off and was very rude. Not the same place it use to be!
Blaine Bershad
Blaine Bershad
May 31, 2016
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A wonderful community resource.
Don't throw things out! Recycle typical home stuff (see website) but then consider all of the other things you no longer need. They have places for almost everything, and take small amounts of construction debris as well!
Remember that many people can reuse many items that many of us don't want.
Helping save the world, one debris field at a time!