Garbage & Recycling: Blue Week or Green Week?
Mahone Bay's town-wide Wednesday collection — what goes out on blue weeks and green weeks, with the set-out rules.
Mahone Bay is collected once a week, every Wednesday, for the whole town. Weeks alternate between a blue week and a green week — that is the part people most often mix up. Here is what goes out each kind of week, with the rules and where to find the exact dates.
Which week is it? Check the printed calendar
Blue and green weeks alternate. Through the warmer months some weeks are also marked as cart weeks, when the green cart (organics) goes out more often than usual, so the simple blue-then-green pattern shifts. The Town's printed 2026 calendar marks the colour of every single Wednesday — use the link below for your exact date.
When to put bins out
Put everything to the curb by 8 a.m. on Wednesday, but no earlier than 8 p.m. the night before, and within 10 feet (about 3 m) of the curb.