TWIN BOROUGHS RECYCLING PROGRAM
East Stroudsburg Borough provides a comprehensive and convenient program for residents to participate in recycling through the Twin Boroughs Recycling Program operated jointly with the Borough of Stroudsburg. The program includes a biweekly curbside collection program (pick-up every other week) which divides the Borough of East Stroudsburg into four (4) pick-up areas - Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. A map showing the pickup areas each day in East Stroudsburg Borough and the schedule of biweekly collections is shown elsewhere in this newsletter. The scheduled pickup dates for January 2010 through June 2010 are also included in this section below.
Green recycling pails or buckets are distributed to residents for placing your sorted recyclable materials at curbside. This is a source-separated program – you must have separate buckets or containers for separate materials. Replacement buckets may be obtained by calling the Twin Boroughs Recycling Center at 424-5170 and leaving a message with your address.
Remember to have your recyclable materials placed out along the curb by 5:00 a.m. on the day of your scheduled pick-up. (Please remove your buckets from curbside after pickup!)
Please sort your recycling - it is the law - and it helps us to help protect the environment. It can also lessen the need for future Borough solid waste user fee increases. Encourage your neighbors to participate!
If you have any questions concerning the curbside collection program, please call the Twin Boroughs Recycling Center at 424-5170.
HELPFUL HINTS
Keep your recycling bucket(s) in a convenient and visible location.
Do rinse food from bottles, jars, and aluminum cans.
Use your recycling pails for glass and aluminum cans. Don't break glass before placing it in pail.
Don't place light bulbs, ceramic glass, mirrors, items made of clay or laminated glass in with your recyclables.
Combine magazines and junk mail. Bundle paper separately.
Don't place deposit beverage containers in the recycling pail. Return them to the store for a refund.
Do not put newspapers in the plastic recycling buckets. Use brown paper bags or bundle.
Curbside pickup of recyclables will be suspended during snow emergencies. Please tune in to local radio stations WVPO or WSBG for information on postponements of recycling pickups.
ITEMS THAT MAY BE PLACED FOR CURBSIDE PICK-UP
NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, AND CARDBOARD
Bundle newspapers in brown paper bags or tie with cord. Do not tape together. Do not put in plastic bags. Magazines and junk mail may be combined but keep separate from paper. Cardboard must be broken down and tied.
GLASS:
Jars, bottles: brown, clear and green
Sort bottles by color. Rinse out bottles. Labels may be left on. No windowpane, blue bottles or ceramics are accepted.
ALUMINUM: Cans and Aluminum Foil
Rinse and flatten aluminum cans.
PLASTIC BOTTLES:
Please rinse bottles, remove the caps, and crush the bottles to save space. We accept No. 1 and No. 2 plastic bottles only. (Examples of No. 1 and No. 2 are:: soda bottles, milk and water jugs, and detergent bottles.) No oil jugs, butter tubs or yogurt containers!
You may put your plastic bottles in a garbage bag if you like.
ITEMS NOT PICKED UP AT CURBSIDE
Steel or bimetal cans are not picked up at curbside but can be brought to the Twin Boroughs Recycling Drop-off Center. The Recycling Center also accepts styrofoam “peanuts”, as well as all the recyclable items which are also picked up at curbside.
SCHEDULED PICK UP DATES FOR JANUARY 2010
THROUGH JUNE 2010
MONDAY PICK UP SCHEDULE
January 4, 19* March 1, 15, 29 May 10, 24
February 1, 16* April 12,26 June 7, 21
TUESDAY PICK UP SCHEDULE
January 5, 20* March 2, 16, 30 May 11, 25
February 2, 17* April 13, 27 June 8, 22
WEDNESDAY PICK UP SCHEDULE
January 6, 21* March 3, 17,31 May 12,26
February 3, 18* April 14, 28 June 9, 23
THURSDAY PICK UP SCHEDULE
January 7, 22* March 4, 18 May 13, 27
February 4, 19* April 1, 15, 29 June 10, 24
* indicates one day later in week due to holiday
LOCATION/OPERATING HOURS OF TWIN BOROUGHS RECYCLING CENTER
The Twin Boroughs Recycling Center is conveniently located off Lincoln Avenue and Forge Road in the Borough, just south of Interstate 80. From Brown Street, take Lincoln Ave. past Wal*Mart and continue under I-80, then make an immediate right turn into the Recycling Center driveway. From Prospect Street (at I-80 Exit 308), take Forge Road to Lincoln Ave. to the Recycling Center.
The Recycling Center is open daily Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., except for holidays.
CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING SCHEDULE
East Stroudsburg Borough provides special Christmas Tree curbside recycling pickups, during the three week period immediately following the Christmas holiday. After Christmas is over, don’t trash your live tree, recycle it! The Department of Public Works crew will pickup and chip-up your Christmas tree if you place the tree out at the street curb in front of your residence on the designated dates. (Dates will be announced in the Fall mailing of the Borough Recycling Calendar or Newsletter).
Pickup will be from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on the designated dates. (The schedule is subject to change due to weather conditions). East Stroudsburg Borough residents may also bring their tree to the Twin Boroughs Recycling Drop-Off Center located off Lincoln Avenue during the regular Center hours. Please be advised that the Borough’s garbage collection contractor is not responsible for picking up Christmas trees, or branches, or other unbagged yard wastes under its contract, so you will need to place your tree out for pickup on the above scheduled days only. The scheduled Christmas Tree pickup dates and the yard waste pickups scheduled by the Borough every other month beginning in late March (see schedule below) are the only dates for curbside pickup at your residence.
2010 YARD WASTE COLLECTION SCHEDULE
The Borough also offers a bimonthly curbside Yard Waste Pickup Program which is held from April through October of each year. Borough crews will pickup yard waste at curbside on the same days of regular recycling pickups in the Borough according to the schedule below. Residents may place at curbside for pickup, on these weeks only, a reasonable quantity of woody yard wastes materials from your own property - including tree branches, limbs and cuttings, small bushes (without the root ball), hedges, and tree logs not exceeding five inches (5") in diameter. The Borough crews will not pickup leaves, grass clippings, flowers, vines, roots, or garden/vegetable plants as part of these yard waste collections. The yard waste materials collected will be transported to the Recycling Center on Lincoln Avenue where the yard wastes will be ground up and processed into mulch.
The upcoming Schedule for 2010 year Borough Yard Waste Pickups is as follows:
Monday – Thursday, March 29 - April 1, 2010
Monday - Thursday, June 7 - 10, 2010
Monday - Thursday, August 2 - 5, 2010
Monday - Thursday, September 27 - 30, 2010
Residents should place their yard wastes at curbside on the same day of the week as their regular
recycling pickup during the above week dates only. Branches and limbs must be cut into manageable lengths (no more than 4 ft.), tied or bundled and stacked as best possible, alongside the road in front of your residence but not on the road pavement.
Borough residents may also continue to bring yard wastes to the Twin Borough Recycling Center off Lincoln Avenue during regular Center hours. The yard waste program is for Borough residents and property owners only. Anyone bringing in yard wastes from outside the Borough
will be prosecuted for violation of Borough ordinance requirements.
Please remember that the Borough garbage contractor is not responsible for picking up branches, limbs, and other “woody” yard waste materials under their refuse contract with the Borough.
Borough residents may also pick up at the Recycling Center, free of charge, mulch that is produced from the ground-up yard wastes (depending on availability). Please be advised, however, that you have to shovel and load your own mulch!
