Email address: BMA Special Committee on Solid Waste Activities on April 5, 2021 MANCHESTER, N.H. – Manchester residents looking to get rid of their yard waste more frequently got some good news on Monday night. The Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) Special Committee on Solid Waste Activities recommended what would ultimately be a return to the yard waste schedule prior to the BMA’s reduced pickup plan approved last October. That plan, brought forward by an expected rate increase coming at the conclusion of the expiring contract with Pinard Waste, limited yard waste collection to 17 times per year. Michael Porter (Ward 8) brought a request to the committee after receiving 24 constituent calls in Ward 8 and the current vacant Ward 6 seat requesting the pickup reduction be rescinded.