Parkesburg Borough Trash Fact

From the desk of Parkesburg Councilperson Mel Keen

General Trash Guidelines

• Put cans/boxes out the night before pick-up or early on the day of pick-up.
• Put trash in cans.
• Remove empty trash cans from the street promptly and store in the rear of your yard.
• Please pick-up wind blown trash.

Monday Yard Wast Collection

• Place leaves, sticks and weeds in cans, boxes or paper yard waste bags.
• DO NOT PUT YARD WASTE IN PLASTIC BAGS.
• No dirt, stones, trash or plastic bags.
• Bundle sticks 3’ long. No branches over 2” thick or logs.
• No pick-up during the winter.

Recycling

• Tuesday, South side,
• Wednesday North side
• Place metal, plastic and glass bottles and containers AND cardboard and newspaper together in cans or boxes.
• Do not put recycling in plastic trash bags
• The Borough doesn’t pay to dump recycling! When you recycle you help hold the line on trash fees.
• These items can be recycled
• Metal: Tin and aluminum cans, empty aerosol cans, empty paint cans.
• Glass: Bottles and Jars (any color)
• Plastic: #1 and #2 plastics ONLY (mostly beverage, food and detergent containers).
• Cardboard: May be filled with recycling or empty and flattened.
• Mixed paper: Newspaper, magazines, mail (junk and personal), phone books, food boxes (remove plastic liner), computer paper, flyers, wrapping paper (no foil orplastic wrap), soda and beer cartons.

Regular trash pick-up

• Thursday, South Side- First Avenue and South
• Friday, North & East Side-E. 1st & 2nd Avenues, Maple Street and North

Scrape metal

• Put out on your regular trash day, next to your can.

Holidays -

• If a holiday falls on a Thursday, (like Thanksgiving) South Side pick-up will be on Wednesday.
• If a holiday falls on a Friday, South-Side pick-up Wednesday and North Side pick-up will be on Thursday.
• Monday holidays – no yard waste

Call Borough Hall at 610-857-2616 for information about removing large items.

Haul large items yourself and save $$. Get the details at- www.SECCRA.org