Trash Rules

As of October 1^st, 2000, new regulations for the Town of Northport’s Transfer Station went into effect. These regulations were passed at a special Northport town meeting and were the result of the need to control the increase in waste materials passing through the transfer station. As you may remember, last summer we had to change our regular Monday pickup day to Tuesday because the Transfer Station bins were overflowing by the end of the weekend.

The most important portion of the new regulations to Village residents is that all bags of garbage must now have a Town bag sticker attached. Bag size is not to exceed 35 gallons. Overstuffed lawn/leaf bags will not be collected. The stickers are to be purchased at the Town Office at the cost of one dollar per sticker. The Northport Town Office is open from 9AM-3PM on Tuesday and Thursday; 2PM – 7PM on Wednesday and on Saturday from 9AM-Noon.

Our Village Agent will not pick up bags of garbage that do not have attached stickers or are oversized. You may also take the bags directly to the Transfer Station. The Transfer Station is open from 9AM-4PM on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

Since the sticker policy went into effect the Town of Northport has seen a reduction of over 60 percent in waste materials at the Transfer Station. That reduction has allowed the Town to approve the resumption of our normal Monday-Thursday pickup schedule. We will be resuming the Monday pickup as of June 4th. We will also begin picking up recyclables on Thursday beginning that same week.