Parkesburg Trash Facts

According to Borough Council President Mel Keen, the current trash facts Parkesburg residents need to keep in mind are:

• Garbage gets dumped at the highest rate per ton.
• Yard Waste cost the borough less per ton than garbage does.
• Recycling  is commingled and currently part of a grant program that pays the Borough by the ton once a year.  
• Scrap Metal is taken to the scrap yard for cash.

Generally speaking residents should have twice as much recycling as garbage. It is a hard concept for some who are used to the old system where most trash went out with the "garbage".

All freezer boxes and containers go in recycling as does junk mail and newspapers. 

Cardboard boxes should be flattened and put out with recycling.

Borough trash collectors get a lot of recycling in plastic bags. This is a big NO-NO!  Putting recycling in trash bags takes a lot of time (and money) for collector to open and dump the recycled wast into the correct pile.

And for those who still have questions about what to put out when, here's the official Borough Trash  rule sheet:

Parkesburg Borough Trash Guide 

The Borough doesn’t pay to dump recycling!  When you recycle you help hold the line on trash fees. 

General Trash Guidelines - Please put cans/boxes out the night before pick-up or early on the day of pick-up.  Put trash in cans. After pick-up, remove empty trash cans from the street promptly and store in the rear of your yard.  Please pick-up wind blown trash. 

YARD WASTE - Monday - entire Borough - 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 BAGS. 

What should be put out with recycling:

• 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 or plastic wrap), soda and beer cartons.

Thursday - Regular trash pick-up, South Side - First Avenue and South 

Friday - Regular trash pick-up, North & East Side - East First and East Second Avenues, Maple Street and North.

Call Borough Hall at 610-857-2616 for information about throwing away

large items or haul large items yourself and save $$.   

Get the details at www.SECCRA.org 

Scrape metal, put out next to your can on your regular trash day.

Holidays - If a holiday falls on a Thursday, 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.