2012 Garbage Pickup Calendar  2012 Garbage Calendar

IF YOU FIND THAT YOUR GARBAGE HAS BEEN MISSED
PLEASE CALL ALLIED CUSTOMER SERVICE AT 1-800-464-2120.

REMINDER:

BILLING QUESTIONS ONLY, call the Borough Office at 724-222-2929.  2012 Garbage Bills will be sent out in January 2012.

All East Washington Borough residents have their GARBAGE collected each TUESDAY and their RECYCLABLES collected EVERY OTHER TUESDAY at a fee of $185 per year, paid to the borough. The Borough employs Allied Waste Services to handle these jobs. Please place all garbage and/or recyclables at the curb no earlier than 6 p.m. Monday night.

All garbage should be placed in garbage cans with lids so that animals cannot get into the bags.

Landlords of apartment buildings may choose to pay $185 per rental unit (occupied or unoccupied) or rent a dumpster from the borough (fee determined by size of the dumpster).

FREE RECYCLING CONTAINERS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE BOROUGH BUILDING.

If New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day (Dec. 25) fall on a Monday, collection day is moved to WEDNESDAY for that week only.  This only applies if the HOLIDAY above is on a MONDAY.

If severe weather occurs such that collection cannot be made during a week, notice to that effect will appear on this website.

• Branches will be collected with the garbage if they are no larger than 4 feet long and 3 inches in diameter.
• Christmas trees are to be placed at the curb with garbage.

Recyclable Items
Recyclable items that WILL be regularly collected include:

• Paper
• Newspapers and inserts
• Magazines and catalogs
• Junk mail and envelopes
• Office and school paper
• Cardboard that fits in a recycling container
• Boxboard – cereal and cake boxes
• Brown grocery paper bags
• Phonebooks
• Metal
• Aluminum
• Tin and Bi-metals

Plastics (1 through 7) –

1. PETE – clear containers – water and soda
2. HDPE – Colored containers – milk and juice
3. V Vinyl – PVC
4. LDPE – Film, dry cleaning, bread
5. PP – Ketchup, yogurt and medicine containers
6. PS – CD cases, plastic cutlery
7. Other – grocery bags

Glass

• Brown
• Clear
• Green

Items We Cannot Pick Up:

• Tires, car parts and car batteries
• Untied brush and branches
• Hot ashes and embers
• Construction materials
• Remodeling items, sod, rock, brick and dirt
• Dead animals
• Steel drums (any size) or any type steel
• Explosives
• Propane and Gas Cylinders
• Any type of liquids
• Fluorescent light bulbs
• Liquid paint – Let paint completely dry out before placing empty cans in the trash
• Animal feces
• Hazardous waste including: poisons, fuel, paint solvents, oil, antifreeze, pesticides, herbicides, medical waste including hypodermic needles

WHERE TO RECYCLE NON-COLLECTED ITEMS

Batteries – NiCAD and rechargeable AA, AAA, C, D, Lead Acid, Phone
Radio Shack, Strabane Square and Donaldson’s Crossroads
Office Depot, Bethel Park
Sam’s Club, West Mifflin
Best Buy, Bethel Park
Walmart, West Mifflin
Car Batteries
Brookman Auto Parts, Race Street, Washington, Pa.
Electronics-televisions, monitors, fax machines
Best Buy, Bethel Park: remove the hard drive from the computer and physically destroy it
Tires
Sears – $2.00 per tire; Walmart – $1.50 per tire
Ink Cartridges
Best Buy, Bethel Park
CFLs (compact fluorescent light bulbs)
Lowe’s, Home Depot, IKEA
Fluorescent Tubes
www.lightbulbrecycling.com will provide a recycle kit ($95) that FedEx will pick up and deliver to a recycle center. Mercury from one fluorescent bulb can pollute 6,000 gallons of water beyond safe drinking levels.
Styrofoam, packing peanuts, bubble wrap, corrugated packing boxes
Mail Boxes and More, Washington
Motor Oil
Walmart Tire & Lube; Advance Auto Parts; Budd Baer; Weavertown Oil Services, Canonsburg; Corwin Jeep, Hickory; Arrowhead Service, Houston; Haw-Bottom Greenhouse, Scenery Hill
Paint
For latex paint fill with cat litter or Waste Paint Hardener (from hardware stores) to absorb chemicals and dispose of in trash. Oil-based paint should be discarded at a household hazardous waste collection site. Contact Southwest Pa. Household Hazardous Waste and Pharmaceutical Hotline at at 412-488-7452.
Propane Tanks
General Alloys, Washington
Junk Cars
Brookman Auto Parts; C&M Recycling
Building Supplies
Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore
Household Items & Toys
Goodwill Industries; Washington City Mission
Stuffed Animals
Donate to beanies-forbagdad.com or lovinghugs.org

Further recycling information can be found at:
www.co.washington.pa.us and www.earth911.com

 

Problems or Questions?
Contacts: email – garbage@eastwash.com or call the Borough office at 724-222-2929