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Transfer Station Recycling Center (TS/RC) 370 COLES
NECK ROAD, WELLFLEET, MA 02667 (508) 349-0335 or (508) 349-0315 Open October thru April, Fri. – Tues., 8 am – 3:30 pm May thru Sept., Daily from 8 am – 3:30 pm
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Any resident can drop off their recyclables, but only residents with Transfer station stickers can dump trash, visit swap shop, or use other facilities.
Go To:
Maps and Directions
Directions from route 6
Heading North on Route 6 towards Provincetown:
After passing signs for Wellfleet center, turn left onto Coles Neck Road. Follow for 0.8 miles and you will see signs for the transfer station on your right.
Heading South on Route 6 towards Orleans:
A mile after you enter Wellfleet from Truro, turn right onto Coles Neck Road. Follow for 0.8 miles and you will see signs for the transfer station on your right.
What We Recycle
Wellfleet recycles!
There are many things we can do personally to alleviate the burden our trash puts on our environment: one of them is to recycle.
Here’s how:
Organize your trash in three categories:
- Cans and plastic
- Glass
- Newspapers and paper, corrugated cardboard
Please rinse out all recycled containers, remove lids and corks from bottles and jars.
Leave labels on.
See below for complete list of recyclable materials/fees
Other recycling programs:
Marine Waste- Plastic Marine waste can be dumped for free. Call the transfer station for more information.
Untreated, unpressurized wood- for more information on wood recycling program, visit the transfer station homepage
PAPER AND CARDBOARD |
GLASS |
CANS AND PLASTIC |
Newspapers with inserts Magazines and Catalogs Junk mail Office paper Phone books Cereal and cracker boxes, other similar, clean lightweight boxes Corrugated cardboard (must be flattened)
A full list of recyclable paper is available at:
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Bottles and jars
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Tin, steel and aluminum cans lids Deposit and non-deposit beverage cans
Plastic # 1-5, 7 (not 6)
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NOT RECYCLABLE: Waxed cartons (such as milk or juice cartons) Tyvek
(Dupont has a Tyvek recycling program. Check their website for details.) |
NOT RECYCLABLE: Broken glass Window glass mirrors, Dishes Pyrex Ceramics Incandescent lightbulbs
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NOT RECYCLABLE: Aluminum foil Foil pans Paint cans Aerosol cans
Styrofoam Plastic bags (Plastic bags may be recycled at the local supermarkets. Look for recycle bins near the doors)
Plastic items that are not marked such as toys or household items |
YARD WASTE: (no fee for carload or less) |
Grass leaves |
Raked material |
Christmas trees |
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Branches |
No longer that 6’ or 6” in diameter No stumps or vines No commercial brush |
Compost |
See our compost page |
MARINE ITEMS |
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Shellfish shells for Wellfleet’s cultch program |
See attendant or call Andy Koch, Shellfish Constable: (508) 349-0325 |
Marine debris (nets, buoys, rope, etc.) |
See attendant |
OTHER ITEMS |
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Metals |
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Latex paint |
Remove lids and set aside to evaporate any leftover paint. Dispose of dry paint cans in metals pile. Cans that have significant quantities of paint left in them may be dropped off in the paint shack on the 3rd Sat of the month. |
Car batteries |
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Motor oil |
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Antifreeze |
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Thermometers |
May be taken to the Health Dept for exchange for digital thermometers |
Florescent light bulbs, including compact florescent bulbs |
These bulbs have small amounts of mercury in them and must be disposed of properly |
FEE ITEMS
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FEE |
Appliances
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Remove doors and rubber.
Remember that often companies that deliver appliances will take away the old ones)
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$5 |
Monitors and TVs |
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$10 |
Computers |
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$10 |
Carpets |
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$10 |
Sofas and Chairs |
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$10 |
Mattresses and Box Springs |
Remember that often companies that deliver mattresses will take away the old ones |
$20 each |
Tires |
Car only, rims removed |
$2 |
Yard waste |
(see above) |
$10/truckload |
Bulk metal |
Auto parts, motors, engines, etc. |
$40 |
50 gallon drums |
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$5 |
Propane tanks |
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$3/20gal $20/over 20 gal |
Petroleum Tanks |
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$30 |
Water Tanks |
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$5 |
Other bulky items |
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$10 |
Construction and Demo Waste |
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$270/ton |
How Do I Get a Sticker?
You can purchase a Transfer Station sticker at the Transfer Station and at beach houses in-season. Rates vary.
Residential stickers are good for a year starting July 1st.
In season phone #: 508-349-9818
Call town hall or transfer station out of season
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Fee |
Residential Sticker- first car second car third car |
$55 $10 $55 |
One-time User
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$5 per 4 bags
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Commercial Sticker- small (<1 ton) large (>1 ton) |
$65 $95 |
Commercial Refuse Demolition materials Bulk Metal |
$80 per ton $270 per ton $40 per ton |
Swap Shop
Think before you dump it! Green up your life! Take a quick look at what you throw away. Can you recycle it, give it away, sell it? Check out Wellfleet’s Swap Shop.
STUFF for free, drop it off, pick it up.
Got stuff that’s too good to send to the landfill, but you want to get rid of it? Take it to the Swap Shop. And while you’re there look around, you never know what you’ll find. The Swap Shop is the community exchange for dishes, glassware, pots, pans, games, puzzles, toys, lamps, speakers, sporting goods, printers, LP’s, 8 tracks, umbrellas, chairs, windows, books, etc. Please do not take monitors, computers, sofas, mattresses or rugs to the Swap Shop. Wellfleet’s swap shop is open to dump sticker holders.
The Swap Shop also has a bulletin board for items to sell or give away.
The Swap Shop does not take clothes but the Salvation Army maintains two bins outside the Swap Shop for your old clothes. These clothes are generally recycled into new material or shipped overseas. If you have clothes that can be worn again why not keep them in the community? Don’t forget MassAppeal (508 349 1173) behind the Cove on Route 6. Wellfleet also has a thrift store- the AIM Thrift Store on Main Street.
Compost and Mulch
Waste brush is recycled into mulch and compost for community use.
Composting at home is simple, and requires little more than food scraps, leaves and/or grass clippings, and the occasional turning of a compost pile. You simply mix food scraps (with no animal products in them) with dead plant matter into a pile, and let it sit. Your compost pile will need turning with a shovel or pitchfork at least twice a month.
There are many ways to recycle your kitchen and yard waste into compost and you can learn more about this kind of recycling from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (Mass DEP):
Do it yourself composting
Mass DEP has a very useful flyer on composting at home:
Composting bins for sale
Click here for more information about purchasing a bin from the TS/RC
Seasonal Feature:
Firewood Recycling Program
The Town of Wellfleet is running a program to recycle clean waste wood into free firewood. The untreated, unpressurized wood can be dropped off for free by anyone, but only people with transfer station stickers can use the firewood.
To acquire the wood, you must also sign a release that is available to print by clicking here and is also available at the transfer station.
Local Clean Heat
Have you thought about using a woodstove to heat your home this winter? This local and relatively clean heat source can be utilized inexpensively and effectively. The EPA has more information about this heat opportunity here:
Hazardous Materials Pickup Days
If you have household hazardous materials to dispose of that we do not accept at the TS/RC they can be collected by the Cape Cod Commission. Call them or check their website for collection dates.
Cape Cod Commission: (508) 362-3828
Things to save for hazardous waste pickup days:
Garden |
Automotive |
Paints, Solvents and Finishes |
Other Chemicals |
Mercury |
Pesticides Fertilizers with pesticides
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Gasoline Brake Fluid Power steering fluid
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Oil Based Wood finishes Oil Based Wood preservatives Oil Paint Alkyd Paint Lead Paints Marine Paint Auto Paint Solvents Thinners Strippers Finishes |
Photo chemicals Pool chemicals Chemistry sets Acid
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Thermostats Switches Thermometers
(Mercury Thermometers may be traded for digital thermometers at collection) |
For pharmaceutical disposal:
PLEASE DO NOT FLUSH PHARMACEUTICALS
Flushing our medicine releases potentially harmful chemicals into our ground water. For more information including how to dispose of pharmaceuticals, see this link:
Or call the health department at (508) 349-0308
Why Recycle?
All over the world, recycling is practiced as an environmentally friendly and innovative business practice. Recycling is a great way to keep the cost of waste disposal low. Massachusetts DEP identifies these benefits of recycling:
Massachusetts throws away 1.5 million tons of paper every year. If we recycled HALF of this paper, we would save nearly $52 million in disposal costs.
19,000 people are employed at 1,400 recycling businesses and organizations in Massachusetts. These businesses have an annual payroll of $557 million and produce $3.5 billion in sales receipts.
Recycling helps Massachusetts residents reduce the equivalent of 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. That's like taking 1.6 million passenger cars off the road for a year.
Recycling in Massachusetts saves over 85 trillion BTUs of energy annually, enough to power 820,292 homes for one year.
Massachusetts recycled enough paper last year to prevent the cutting of nearly 17 million trees.
Recycling conserves precious resources, supports local business, protects our fragile environment and saves taxpayers money.
Paper and cardboard are turned into cereal and cracker boxes, book covers and game boards at recycling paper mills in Fitchburg and Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Glass bottles and jars are melted and used to make new containers at facilities such as St. Gobain Containers in Milford, Massachusetts.
Plastic soda bottles become fiberfill for jackets and sleeping bags, or polar fleece made by textile mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Milk jugs, detergent bottles, and other #2 plastics become landscaping timbers and whiskey barrel planters made by Smartware Products in Leominster, Massachusetts.
Massachusetts currently has seven processing facilities that sort and bale 500,000 tons of recyclables annually. After processing, your recycables become part of the recycling marketplace.
Where Does Our Waste Go?
Wellfleet's municipal solid waste is transported to the Covanta/SEMASS waste-to-energy facility in Rochester, Mass.
This facility incinerates our waste to produce electricity.
Our construction and demolition solid waste is driven by our Department of Public Works staff to the
Bourne landfill (managed by Integrated Solid Waste Management).
Learn more at their website:
As of 2008, these Cape towns recycled the following amounts of their waste
Town |
2008 Recycling Rate (tons recycled and composted / total solid waste + recycled and composted tons) |
Provincetown |
36% |
Truro |
45% |
Chatham |
39% |
Falmouth |
37% |
Bourne |
30% |
Mashpee |
22% |
Wellfleet |
33% |
Eastham |
37% |
Orleans |
39% |
Dennis |
30% |
Barnstable |
16% |
Harwich |
41% |
Yarmouth |
36% |
Brewster |
17% |
Sandwich |
28% |
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