Telford Borough residents must make arrangements for recycling with the hauler of their choice. See below for a list of haulers that operate in the borough. Recycling bins are available at the Borough Office.
Though each hauler has its own instructions explaining what materials to recycle and how to sort them, the hauler you select should collect aluminum, steel, and bimetal cans, glass, number 1 and 2 plastics, newspapers, and magazines. Haulers may pick up other materials in addition to these. Please contact your hauler with any questions about recycling materials, material sorting, and collection schedules.
If you wish to recycle a material that is not included in regular recycling collection, you can search for a drop-off.
This list is meant as a guide for residents and may not include all haulers that operate in the borough. Several of the haulers listed also provide commercial recycling collection.
Allied Waste (Republic Services)
215-723-0400
www.disposal.com
Ches-Mont Disposal
610-584-5450
1-800-710-1333
www.chesmont.com
G&C Waste Services
610-313-9710
www.gcwaste.com
Waste Management
800-869-5566
www.wm.com
Rake your leaves to the curb so the borough can remove them using vacuum equipment. The vacuum equipment is designed to pick up only leaf waste and cannot pick up piles that contain excessive quantities of sticks, stones, hedge clippings, plant materials, and other trash. Please note that the borough will not collect leaves in alleys.
If you do have hedge clippings, plant materials, and other garden residues, you may put them in bags along with leaves, but do not put anything else in the bags. Bags containing grass clippings will not be collected.
Leaf collection dates for 2011 are:
Monday, November 7 and Tuesday, November 8 - South side of the train tracks
Monday, November 14 and Tuesday, November 15 - North side of the train tracks
Monday, November 21 and Tuesday, November 22 - South side of the train tracks
Monday, December 5 and Tuesday, December 6 - North side of the train tracks
During the rest of the year, you may compost your yard waste.
The NMCRC publishes a brief recycling guide with general information for all of its member municipalities. You may need to download the free Adobe Reader in order to view the file.
For more information about Telford Borough, visit www.telfordborough.org