Essex residents get second chance for holiday garbage pickup [Video]

Essex residents in the town’s north end will see garbage trucks return Monday, December 30 after a calendar misprint caused confusion about holiday trash collection.

The town’s 2024 Collection Calendar mistakenly indicated that the first post-Christmas pickup would occur on Friday, December 27.

However, garbage trucks instead rolled through town on Boxing Day.

“As soon as I woke up, my phone started going off saying, the trucks are out. What’s happening?” Mayor Sherry Bondy recalled.

“The trucks went out yesterday. There wasn’t a lot of garbage out there because people didn’t know to put it out.”

Normally, garbage pickup in “Area 2” of Essex happens on Wednesdays — but with Christmas falling midweek, that collection was offset.

Bondy said someone at town hall must have given the Essex-Windsor Solid Waste Authority the wrong date for the calendar.

“It’s something that we’re taking seriously,” Bondy said.

“And we’re going to review it so that it doesn’t happen again, because …