The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Trash Schedules by Address

This dataset shows the current trash and recycling schedules for each address.

Dataset

Publisher
Public Works Department
Spatial coverage
all
Fields
10
Keywords
address, public works, recycling, sanitation, trash, trash pickup, waste
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/trash-schedules-by-address

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

FormatPreservationSizeDigestSource
CSVpreserved350880807fdd6ab3637fead1f94a721fb08cdf8f7119f861dc50827c491f3f8caa61308csource
PDFpreserved393235b4584fbbc0b1f0f1b85899ca8ffa81431e5ce54f7637311a19e451230dd44b9asource

Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

ColumnTypeDescription
sam_address_idtext
full_addresstext
mailing_neighborhoodtext
statetext
zip_codetext
x_coordtext
y_coordtext
recollecttext
trashdaytext
pwd_districttext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/1c87b863cd17e95836c9f8e3fd3335ac/trash-schedules-by-address-columns.json — 1014 bytes, SHA-256 1c87b863cd17e958…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Who publishes Trash Schedules by Address, and under what license?

Public Works Department publishes it. The archive accessioned it under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain), and holds the publisher's own column dictionary verbatim rather than reworded into the archive's vocabulary — how a publisher names a column is evidence about the publisher.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does Trash Schedules by Address cover?

In space, all.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

How large is Trash Schedules by Address?

10 columns, as the publisher's own catalog reports them.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Can the archive hand back the bytes of Trash Schedules by Address?

Yes, for 2 of 2 distributions. Each preserved artifact is served at its own address with the digest recorded at retrieval emitted in an x-archive-sha256 header, and is handed over as an attachment: preserved material is evidence, not content, and is never rendered on this origin.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does the archive hold for Trash Schedules by Address, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Trash Schedules by Address from City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain). 3 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to City of Boston.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:trash-schedules-by-address
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/trash-schedules-by-address
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/trash-schedules-by-address.json
Version
2 · last changed 13 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
License
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
trash-schedules-by-address
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpointarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizemapped the portal's catalog fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0
3externalize-column-dictionaryThe publisher's 10-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/1c87b863cd17e95836c9f8e3fd3335ac/trash-schedules-by-address-columns.json, served verbatim with its own digest. The record's stored field schema is unchanged; the graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0