Residents and city councilors in Medford are expressing outrage over a plan to roll back trash service to once every two weeks, as Massachusetts environmentalists consider a statewide ban on residential food waste disposal.

Medford officials say they are prepared to implement biweekly waste collection in July 2027, following guidelines they assert have been worked on over the years. The plan, though, has generated sharp backlash from residents and city councilors who argue that the rollback should be abandoned.

Critics are taking exception to how Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn and other officials formally announced the scale-back from the current weekly trash collection.

Officials issued a press release on Nov. 13 highlighting how the city secured a $200,000 grant from the state Department o

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