Newington Junk Removal With No Two-Item Limit

Two items a week, booked by midweek

Newington's oversized and bulk curbside service runs through Trash Away. You call, pay when you book, and get the request in by Wednesday afternoon for that Thursday's collection. Each stop covers up to two items, there is a limit of two items per week, and mattresses, box springs, tires and TVs cost extra on top of the stop charge. The town also caps the number of collection stops each week, and every item has to be something two workers can lift into a refuse truck. Metal items and appliances have their own Tuesday pickup, booked separately by Monday. Check the town's current fee schedule for the per-stop and per-item charges.

That pace works when a recliner breaks. It does not work when you are clearing a basement before a sale, emptying a garage so the car fits for winter, or handling a parent's house in a few weekends. At two pieces a week, a modest cleanout can stretch across months.

The Main Street transfer station

The Transfer Station at 2045 Main Street is genuinely useful. Residents can recycle clean mattresses and box springs there through the state's Bye Bye Mattress program, along with TVs, electronics, scrap metal, appliances and propane tanks, and metal items that are mostly metal go free. You will need a sticker, issued at the Highway Garage on Milk Lane or by the Town Clerk, and a license and vehicle registration showing you live in town. Mattresses cannot be left outside the container. For a carload of recyclables that is a good option; for a houseful of furniture, it is many trips.

Newington's houses and condos

Newington grew fast after the Second World War. Its population went from about 5,400 in 1940 to more than 9,100 by 1950, and almost 29% of today's homes were built between 1940 and 1959. Census estimates put the median build year at 1967 and show 62% of homes are single-family detached. Newington also has a large share of attached single-family homes, townhouse and condo style: about 16%. Condo complexes use the same Thursday bulk service, with callers giving a bulk area or dumpster number.

Those condos and capes mean tight storage: a one-car garage, a basement, a shed. When they fill up, they fill up all at once.

Garages, basements and Turnpike storefronts

Crews clear one-car and two-car garages, finished and unfinished basements, and condo storage units near Mill Pond Park and Cedar Mountain. Along the Berlin Turnpike, retail and office tenants call when a lease ends and the space needs to be empty by a certain date: shelving, desks, display fixtures and back-room clutter. There is no item count and no weekly cap. You get a price from the volume your stuff takes up, then the crew loads it.

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