1.   I need to make you a key before your first trip. You can access the dump at your convenience after the Saturday 10:00a.m. sort.   If the sort is going to occur any other time but then you’ll hear from me so you can plan    If you go during non dump hours just let yourself in and place the lock on behind you while inside the dump.   Most of the time the lock is just set on and not actually locked.

2.   One trip per hauling weekend. So whatever you can fit is fine. Some weekends are more, and some are less and it all seems to balance out.

3.   Inside the shed there is a form to take with you that lists the number of bags and type.

4.   Roux’s recycle center is located on Rte 110 just as you enter Shirley on the left. Hours are very convenient, 6:00a.m. to 11p.m. 7 days per week.

5.   At Roux’s you drive to the back, the bags go in the storage containers on the right and the cases are stacked in a shed on the left. Take your form to the register where they give you a check and either give to me or Wes.

Debbie Spaulding

Phone: 978-779-3349

Driving Directions to Roux's Market, Shirly, MA

Roux’s market is not located on Route 110.

It is in “lower Shirley” along the MBTA rail line.

There are 2 ways to get there:

1. Go up Route 70 out of Lancaster, cross over Route 2 passing the Scout store and Council on the left, continue straight until the road ends at a “T” stop.

Take a right. Go about 2 miles, passing several of Keating’s gravel plants on the way. Pass a very ornate “Presidential” building (so named) on the left, and bear left down the small hill after the Presidential building. At the bottom of the small dip bear right and back up the small hill. You will pass, but not turn at, a green sign showing Shirley Center to the left. Now you see Shirley village, ornate street lamps, and the railroad on your left. Slow down, pass a convenience store, and notice Roux’s market, a brown square building on the right. Turn in to the lot, go to the back of the parking lot, and park towards the left rear beside a windowless brown building, That’s where the boxes of bottles will go. As mentioned, bags of cans and plastic bottles go behind the main store.

2. Alternatively, go up to Ayer (on Route 111 north ), pass through downtown Ayer, DO NOT turn right at the big Mobil station as Route 111 goes north, just stay straight, go under the railroad overpass, go all the way through town, pass the old back gate (Verbeck?) to Devens, and just follow that road and it will end up in Shirley village, with Roux’s on your left.

With practice, you can actually take Route 2 west to the old Ft. Devens north post exit (37B ??), go through Devens and get yourself to the Shirley Road at the Ayer/Shirley line. It’s much easier to learn the route coming home from Roux’s, and not try it GOING to Roux.