Dear Resident:
Please take a few moments to read the information outlining the Terre Hill Borough’s Trash Collection and Recycling Program. The Borough strives to provide its residents with a comprehensive and quality trash collection program while keeping costs low. Special features include our bi-annual Clean Up Days and our Yard Waste Recycling Center located at the Borough Garage on Willow Street.
Please pay special attention to the Recycling section on pages 5 and 6. We have had problems with trash items being put in the recycle bins. These pages outline what are acceptable recyclable materials.
The current Solid Waste Collection contract expires on December 31, 2001. As required, an invitation to bid on our Contract was advertised and mailed to several haulers. Waste Management of Pennsylvania, Inc. was the low bidder and the three-year contract, effective January 1, 2002 was awarded to them at the October, 2001 council meeting.
The charges by the contracted trash hauler to the Borough have increased from $51.00 per unit to $65.76 per unit. This amount includes hauler charges only. In addition to hauler fees, the Borough must also pay for expenses incurred for waste disposal. We currently pay $57.80 per ton of refuse taken to the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority.
In order to cover expenses incurred by the Borough for trash collection and removal, quarterly collection fees will increase to $39.00 per household. This is effective January 1, 2002 and will be reflected in the bill received in January.
If you have any questions, call the Borough Office at 445-4581.
Office Hours are Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, we are closed for lunch from 12:00-1:00.
The trash collection and recycling program includes a number of services under one contract with the Borough’s trash hauler, Waste Management of Pennsylvania, Inc.
The collection day for both trash and recycling for all of Terre Hill Borough will be Thursday.
On regular collection days, trash and recyclables must be on the curb by 5 AM. Trash bag, containers and your recycling bin must be put out no more than 5 feet from the curb and should be clearly visible to the collector. No alley or back door service will be provided, except by prior arrangement with the hauler for individuals with physical handicaps.
Trash may not be placed on the curb earlier than the evening before collection day.
In 2006, the only holiday that will affect the day the hauler collects the trash within the Borough is Thanksgiving. Trash collection will be delayed until Saturday, November 25, 2006.
Extra trash containers, tires and oversized refuse items must be marked with special tags. Extra Service Tags can be purchased at the Borough Office. Bags, containers and other items not clearly tagged when appropriate will not be collected.
Contact the Borough Office, 300 Broad Street, 445-4581, if your trash and recycling collection is missed or if you have any questions about the program.
You are allowed (3) 32-gallon trash bags or cans each week under the basic fee you pay for collection. Do not overstuff trash bags or cans; they may not weigh more than 30 pounds.
Each extra container exceeding the weekly limit of three must be marked with a yellow extra service tag. Service tags can be purchased at the Borough Office.
Brush and tree limbs can be disposed of as regular trash items. Bundles are included in your weekly three-bag limit. For example, you may put out (2) containers of trash and one bundle of limbs without using an extra service tag. Those materials must be tied in bundles no longer than four (4) feet and no heavier than (30) thirty pounds. Any yard waste generated between April 1 and October 15 will be collected with your trash and recyclables. We encourage you to take advantage of a more environmentally friendly option, which is to recycle your brush and tree limbs at the Yard Waste Recycling Center located at the Borough Garage. For additional information, see the section on page 3, entitled “Yard Waste, Leaves”.
Oversized items, those that weigh more than (50) fifty pounds and cannot fit in a 32-gallon container, will be collected each week during regular trash collections. Such items must be marked with three (3) extra service tags securely fastened to the item and clearly visible to the hauler.
No more than two (2) oversized items will be picked up at any one residence each week.
Large appliances and tires are not considered oversized items and may not be left for collection on a weekly basis. Please see page 5 for information regarding “Large Appliances, Tire.
Keep our town beautiful by
putting trash in its place.
YARD WASTE, LEAVES
Leaves, grass, garden residue and sod are considered yard waste. Yard Waste may be delivered to the Yard Waste Recycling Center located behind the Borough Garage free of charge. We encourage you to utilize the Yard Waste Recycling Center for the “natural” disposal of Yard Waste.
Woody materials, like shrubbery prunings and tree branches, may be delivered to the Borough Garage free of charge throughout the year. These materials will be chipped and composted at the Borough’s Yard Waste Processing Facility.
FYI: Grass clippings do not need to be removed from your lawn. Clippings will filter down into the soil where they reduce water evaporation and encourage growth by keeping the soil temperature cooler. As the grass clippings decompose, it acts as a natural fertilizer. Also, grass clippings do not create thatch, the overgrowth of the root and stem caused by over watering and over fertilization. Leaving your grass clippings on the lawn will also save you a trip to the Borough Garage.
In order for the Borough to continue providing this service to residents free of charge, it is important that Yard Waste ONLY be disposed of at the Yard Waste Recycling Center. Please report anyone dumping anything other than yard waste to the Borough Office at 445-4581.
Recyclable materials will be collected each week on the same day that trash is collected. Although this service is provided every week, you are encouraged to place your recycling bin at the curb only when it is full. Recycling trucks will make fewer stops and collection will be faster.
This is a Commingled Recycling Program. Cans, glass and plastics do not have to be separated by color or type. Store all containers together in the recycling bin. Do not put Newspapers in recycle bin, they must be put out separately.
What goes into my recycling bin?
Glass food and beverage containers should be rinsed and the lids removed (throw lids in your trash). It is not necessary to remove labels. Put glass containers into the recycling bin. Light bulbs, window and auto glass, drinking glasses and cookware are NOT recyclable.
Aluminum and all other food and beverage cans that are made of steel, tin or a combination of metals should be rinsed also. Do not crush any cans. Remove all lids; lids should be thrown in the trash. Other aluminum products such as foil and pie plates are NOT recyclable. Aerosol cans are NOT recyclable.
Plastic bottles identified as PETE (1) and HDPE (2) should be rinsed and the caps removed. Bottles should be crushed to save space. Only plastic bottles are recyclable in this program. No plastic tubs, cups or other plastic items should be placed in the recycling bin.
Newspapers should be put into paper grocery bags or tied into bundles with string or twine. Please do not use plastic grocery bags. Place newspapers on top of or next to your recycling bin when put on the curb for collection. Other paper WILL NOT be accepted.
NOTE: On rainy days, please refrain from putting out newspaper for collection. Wet paper is more difficult to recycle. Save it until the next weekly pickup.
Cardboard is considered regular trash.
Put out the recycling bin for collection wherever you put out trash for collection. The refuse hauler will pick up the recyclable materials and leave the bin behind.
THIS IS A MANDATORY RECYCLING PROGRAM. You are required by Terre Hill Borough Ordinance to separate those materials for special collection as described above. No recyclable materials are allowed in refuse containers.
Large appliances (white goods) - clothes washers and dryers, dishwashers, refrigerators, freezers, stoves, hot water heaters, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, furnaces, etc. – and tires will be collected each year by the Borough on special collection days. These special collection days will be the first Saturday in May and the first Saturday in November.
All white goods and tires put out for collection must be paid at the Borough Office prior to Clean-Up Day or on the day of collection. If fees are not paid, items will not be collected. The current cost for the removal of appliances is $15.00 per appliance. The cost for disposal is currently $2.00 per tire. Please note - these fees are non-refundable and subject to change as necessary to cover cost of disposal.
White goods containing CFC gasses will be delivered to a facility where these gasses can be recovered and recycled. Gas lines should not be broken or damaged.
SPECIAL WASTES
Several wastes in addition to those already mentioned in this packet also must be handled separately from regular trash.
Many materials used in the home and garden are considered household hazardous waste and unused portions of these wastes must not be thrown in your trash. They can cause serious safety and health problems in transportation or disposal facilities. Household hazardous wastes that should not be thrown in your trash are:
Auto products (antifreeze, transmission and brake fluids, batteries, used oil)
Cleansers (oven cleaners, toilet cleaners, disinfectants, drain cleaners, rug and upholstery cleaners, bleach, ammonia-based cleaners, abrasive cleaners and powders)
Floor and furniture polish
Gasoline, kerosene
Household batteries
Old chemistry sets
Paints and paint-related products (stains, turpentine, thinner, rust protectant)
Pesticides, herbicides, insecticides
Photographic chemicals
Pool chemicals
You may dispose of materials on this list at the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority’s Household Hazardous Waste Facility located at 1299 Harrisburg Pike. Hours of operation are listed on following page.
THERE IS NO CHARGE TO HOMEOWNERS FOR THIS SERVICE.
For safety during transportation, we suggest that you put materials you deliver into a box and separate and cushion the contents with newspaper
Please Note: The Household Hazardous Waste Facility will only accept materials generated in a Lancaster County residences as a result of normal household activities. Any materials generated at businesses, schools and farms will not be accepted. Disposal services for those materials are available locally. Call the Authority for further information.
Other items the facility will not accept include propane tanks, explosives, ammunition, and dioxins. Call the Authority for special instructions and about how to handle those wastes.
You may dispose of household batteries at the Household Hazardous Waste Facility. However, plastic battery collection bags are available at the Borough Office. Place all household batteries in a collection bag. When the bag is full, put it NEXT to your refuse container(s). The Borough’s trash hauler will collect the bag during regular trash pickup.
You may include one 32-gallon, 30-pound container of waste from construction or demolition activities at your home in your regular trash per week. If you have more than one container, or the waste will not fit into a 32-gallon bag or can, you can deliver those materials to the Authority’s transfer station, 1299 Harrisburg Pike. Call the Authority for further information.
The Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority’s Hazardous Waste Facility is open during the following hours:
Monday – Friday................................ 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
2nd & 4th Saturday of each month... 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Computers and associated items such as monitors, printers and keyboards will be accepted from Lancaster County residents. Computers will be accepted at Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority’s Hazardous Waste facility located at 1299 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster. This program is currently being offered at no charge to residents.
Computers contain 5-7 lbs of lead and other metals that can be reused or recycled.
The Authority accepts fluorescent lamps and ballast for recycling to remove mercury from the county’s waste stream and from the Resource Recovery Facility. The Facility will accept bulbs from Lancaster County residents and businesses that generate less than 30 bulbs per month. The following lamps and ballasts will be accepted: standard 4’ and 8’ fluorescent bulbs, circular, U-tube, and compact fluorescents, high-intensity discharge lamps and PCB ballasts. The spent lamps will be sent to a lamp recycling company for further processing.
Lancaster Solid Waste Management Authority (LCSWMA) can be reached at (717) 397-9968 or check out their website at: www.lcswma.org