New Hampshire trash pickup is run by cities, counties and private haulers, not by the state.
Your pickup day comes from your city’s or hauler’s own lookup. Among the largest cities, Manchester and Nashua collect curbside themselves; Concord contracts a private hauler. New Hampshire has an electronics recycling law and a ban on yard waste in landfills, but no statewide bottle deposit, PaintCare paint or mattress program.
Find your city
The largest New Hampshire cities and their official collection pages:
- Manchester: City of Manchester Department of Public Works, Highway Division - Solid Waste and Environmental Programming. The city collects trash curbside every week from about 24,000 residential and commercial stops, and carts must be at the edge of the road by 7:00 a.m. on the collection day. Official page ↗ Look up your collection day ↗
- Nashua: City of Nashua Division of Public Works, Solid Waste Department. The Solid Waste Department collects trash weekly at the curb for most Nashua homes, with recyclables collected every other week on the same day as trash. Official page ↗
- Concord: Concord General Services (Public Works), with collection under city contract with Casella Waste Systems. Trash and recycling are collected once a week and must be at the curb by 7:00 a.m., and curbside trash must be in the city’s purple pay-as-you-throw bags. Official page ↗
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Who collects in New Hampshire
- NHDES runs a Solid Waste General Helpline at (603) 271-2925 for household waste and recycling questions. Source ↗
- Most of New Hampshire’s solid waste infrastructure is municipal transfer stations that act as drop-off centers for trash and recycling in their service area. Source ↗
- Six types of waste are banned from New Hampshire landfills and incinerators, and rechargeable lithium-ion batteries joined that list on July 1, 2025. Source ↗
National haulers (Republic Services, WM, Waste Connections) hold contracts in many places; the city or county names the hauler for each street.
State-level rules
- Container deposit: No statewide container deposit law. New Hampshire is not among the ten states with a beverage container deposit law (California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon and Vermont). Source ↗
- Paint: Not a PaintCare state. PaintCare says it operates programs in twelve states and the District of Columbia, and New Hampshire is not one of them. Leftover paint goes through the local household hazardous waste program; see paint. Source ↗
- Mattresses: No statewide mattress take-back program. The Mattress Recycling Council’s Bye Bye Mattress program operates only in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island. See mattresses. Source ↗
- Electronics: TVs, monitors, computers, portable electronics, computer peripherals and media players are banned from disposal in New Hampshire landfills and incinerators under RSA 149-M:27. Source ↗
- Yard waste: Banned from landfills statewide. It is against the law to dispose of leaves, grass clippings, garden debris and small or chipped branches in New Hampshire landfills and incinerators, a ban established in 1993. Source ↗
State agency
- State agency: New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES), Waste Management Division - Solid Waste Management Bureau. The Solid Waste Management Bureau permits and inspects landfills, transfer stations, recycling and composting facilities under RSA 149-M, and provides solid waste planning and technical assistance to towns, businesses and the public. Official website ↗
- Find your local program: NHDES OneStop search for solid waste facilities by town ↗
Flag of New Hampshire. Public-domain artwork. Artwork: Xrmap flag collection. Source. Resized to 480 pixels wide.
Materials with their own rules
Paint · Lithium-ion batteries · Household hazardous waste · Mattresses · Pizza boxes · Christmas trees
Neighboring states
Maine · Massachusetts · Vermont
Sources
Official pages used: des.nh.gov · des.nh.gov · www4.des.state.nh.us · manchesternh.gov · manchesternh.gov · nashuanh.gov · concordnh.gov · cga.ct.gov · paintcare.org · byebyemattress.com · des.nh.gov · des.nh.gov.
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