Republic Strike Updates

Watertown’s trash and recycling update - July 11, 2025 at 4:25pm

Republic Services has informed the City that they will provide curbside pickup tomorrow, Saturday, July 12, 2025, to continue their efforts in collecting missed trash and recycling pickups from this week. If you have had a missed pickup this week, please leave your missed bin(s) at the curb. 

Starting on Monday, July 14, 2025, Week A trash and recycling curbside pickup will resume as regularly scheduled.

The City’s emergency trash and recycling drop-off site at 148 Waltham Street will be closed over the weekend (July 12 & 13). The drop-off site will reopen on Monday, July 14, 2025, from 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM. Please limit your drop-off to 3 bags of household trash and/or the equivalent amount of recycling that would fit in your bins.

If you have called the City this week to report a missed pickup, the City has documented that missed pickup and continues to share an updated list with Republic Services. 

For those with scheduled pickup on Friday, July 11, 2025, whose trash or recycling was missed, please submit a request via SeeClickFix or the Watertown MA App. We will be adding these to the list for Republic Services.

Please stay up to date at watertown-ma.gov/republicstrike and read the regularly updated FAQs. There you can also find the latest letter sent by Watertown’s City Manager and other Municipal Leaders to Republic Services. The City will make another announcement Monday, July 14, 2025, to keep residents updated. We appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding.

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Read the July 11, 2025 FAQs below
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