The Department of Public Works (DPW) will deliver free standard trash carts to all buildings where the City of Cambridge collects trash from June 6 through June 24. These will replace your current trash barrels and will help control rodents. Only city-issued trash carts will be emptied after June 27, 2022.

Trash carts are just one piece of the puzzle to address rodent control and prevention in Cambridge. To help reduce rodents in your neighborhood, the City encourages residents to use these new trash carts and avoid placing trash in bags on the curb whenever possible, keep the lids closed tightly on the new trash carts, and separate food waste from your trash by participating in the City’s free curbside compost program. Compost carts have locks or latches which secure food waste. Both trash and compost carts are made of thicker plastic than most barrels available in retail stores.

Learn more at www.CambridgeMA.Gov/Trash.