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Monthly Archives: November 2017

Collection Update: Thanksgiving Holiday 2017

Thanksgiving Holiday Collection Schedule: Thursday November 23rd, 2017

Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday, all Residential Penn Waste trash and recycling collections will be delayed one (1) day. Thursday customers will be collected on Friday. Friday customers will be collected on Saturday. All collections on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will be collected on the regularly scheduled day.

Special Note:

Manchester Township: Yard Waste collection will be on Saturday 12/2/17 due to the holiday.

York Township: Yard Waste collection will be on Saturday 12/2/17 due to the holiday.

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We wish all of our customers a safe and happy holiday!

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Hazardous Waste and How To Dispose Of It Properly

Over the past few months, Penn Waste employees have seen an increased volume of household hazardous waste in our waste and recycling collections. Household hazardous waste can encompass many different materials that you may have sitting in your garage, your kitchen or anywhere else in your house. In this post, we are going to focus on three different materials, and give you some tips for proper disposal of these materials.

We will be focusing on Batteries, more specifically rechargeable batteries, Pool Chemicals, Live Ammunition and Hot Ashes. All of these materials should be handled with discretion and not disposed of in your regular trash (unless noted below) or recyclable collections.

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