NOTICES:
PAPER SHREDDING – OCTOBER 16, 2021
The Berks County Solid Waste Authority will be holding a FREE paper shredding event for Berks County Residents. All residents must pre-register to participate at www.co.berks.pa.us/dept/swa/Pages/default.aspx.
Location: Berks County Agricultural Center, 1238 County Welfare Road, Leesport, PA 19533.
Date/Time: October 16, 2021 – 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Please note: No plastic bags will be accepted.
HAZARDOUS HOUSEHOLD WASTE – OCTOBER 23, 2021
The Berks County Solid Waste Authority will be holding a FREE Hazardous Waste event for Berks County Residents. All residents must pre-register to participate at www.co.berks.pa.us/dept/swa/Pages/default.aspx.
Location: Berks County Agricultural Center, 1238 County Welfare Road, Leesport, PA 19533.
Date/Time: October 23, 2021 – 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM
ABSOLUTELY NO LATEX PAINT WILL BE ACCEPTED.
TRASH PICKUP
- Trash pickup is every Monday.
- The maximum total number of cans or bags of trash that you can put out is six (6).
- You are now allowed to put one (1) bulk item out with your trash on Mondays. Items NOT allowed: appliances/items containing Freon, electronics, car parts, oil based paints, hazardous materials, tires, and construction materials.
- Proper Mattress and box spring disposal: Due to recent infestations of bed bugs spreading from mattresses/box springs to employees, mattresses and box springs must be bagged and sealed in plastic mattress bags before they will be collected. You can find mattress disposal bags at most major retailers and home improvement stores, such as Home Depot, Lowe’s, Walmart, Amazon.com, etc. Mattresses and box springs will not be picked up if they are not bagged.
- “Bundles” containing lumber, florescent tubes, or metal posts must be securely tied with rope or twine and not exceed the maximum weight and be no more than four (4) feet in length and sixteen (16) inches in width or depth.
- Organic waste (grass clippings, twigs, brush trimmings, and leaves)will not be collected at the curb with your Monday trash pick-up. Organic waste may be taken to the South Heidelberg Township Organic Waste Site on Point Road off of Route 422 Point Road Directions
- Starting in 2020, the exception to the above rule (#5) concerning Organic waste, will be that the Township Road crew will be picking up organic waste on specific days. The Remaining dates for the 2021 Special Yard Debris Pick-ups will be the week of October 4, 2021.
RECYCLING PICKUP
Recycling pickup is every other Thursday. The Township is divided into two zones, Zone 1 East and Zone 2 West; Green Valley Road is the dividing line. The Recycling Calendar for 2020 is available for viewing below:
2021 Trash & Recycling:
If you would like to print the calendar, please download it first, and then print from Adobe.
CONCERNING HOLIDAYS
In weeks containing a Holiday, collection of trash and recycling will take place ONE DAY LATER THAN USUAL. If there is a MONDAY holiday, then your trash will be picked up on Tuesday. If there is a THURSDAY holiday, then your recycling will be picked up on Friday. All collection schedules will return to normal beginning the Monday of the next week.
New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.
RECYCLABLE ITEMS TO BE COLLECTED:
- Glass (clear, green & brown)
- Steel, aluminum & bimetal cans
- Plastic & plastic containers no greater than two (2) gallons (i.e. large laundry detergent container). Plastic bottles used as containers for soda, milk and other consumable food products and for certain household cleaning products and personal car products are acceptable.
- Newspapers (including inserts: comics, ads, etc), junk mail, office paper, magazines, cereal boxes, junk mail, and envelopes should be placed in paper grocery bags or tied in bundles.
- Cardboard and corrugated paper: must be cut 2 x 2 ft. and placed in paper grocery bags or tied in bundles.
YARD WASTE
- Organic waste (grass clippings, twigs, brush trimmings, and leaves)will not be collected at the curb with your Monday trash pick-up. Organic waste may be taken to the South Heidelberg Township Organic Waste Site on Point Road off of Route 422 Point Road Directions
- Starting in 2020, the exception to the above rule (#5) concerning Organic waste, will be that the Township Road crew will be picking up organic waste on specific days. The dates for the remaining 2021 Organic waste pick-up will be the week of October 4, 2021.
If you have a question about your trash or recycling, of if your trash or recycling is not collected, please call JP Mascaro & Sons directly at 800-334-3403. When the operator picks up, please state that Lower Heidelberg Township is the account and that you are a resident of the Township. J.P. Mascaro & Sons will not have your individual name and address on file.
BUSINESSES
Notice to all businesses, commercial, industrial, institutional, multi-family with 4 or more units, and municipal property owners:
You are responsible to provide your own Municipal Waste collection at your own expense by means of sanitary and legal disposal of such waste in accordance with Township Ordinances 304 and 355, and all applicable Township, State and Federal laws and regulations.
The Township has recently initiated an in-house recycling program to collect polystyrene foam (Styrofoam) and used linens. The collection of polystyrene (Styrofoam) and linens is not part of the mandated recycling program; it is a Township sponsored effort to reduce land fill waste.
IN-HOUSE TOWNSHIP RECYCLING EFFORTS
If you have Styrofoam blocks from packaging, they may be brought to the Township office during regular business hours. We will forward the Styrofoam to a recycling center. Please do not bring Styrofoam coolers that have foil lining; these cannot be recycled. Please bring only clean, dry, white and unmarked/untaped pieces for recycling. The recycling facility will not accept pieces that are dirty or with markings and tape on them. We are no longer accepting the packaging peanuts; these can be taken to either of the local Pack and Ship stores (one is in the shopping center on Commerce Drive, Wyomissing and the other is at the Giant Shopping Center on 724).
Do you have worn out sheets, towels and blankets? Please bring your clean, used linens to the Township office and we will forward them to local animal shelters to use as bathing and bedding materials.