After nearly three months without consistent trash and recycling pickup, over a dozen towns in the Bay State are getting this essential service restored.

The Republic Services strike finally came to an end Friday afternoon -- and now, sanitation workers will be picking back up their routes over the next few days.

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The workers will be ramping back up as they reacclimate themselves with their regular schedules that they haven't worked since July 1, thanks to the strike that lasted 82 days.

Perhaps no one is happier than the people living in the 14 communities impacted -- Arlington, Beverly, Canton, Danvers, Gloucester, Ipswich, Lynnfield, Malden, Marblehead, North Reading, Peabody, Swampscott, Wakefield and Watertow

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