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Watch a RecycleBank Video that shows how your recyclables are turned into products.
Upper Dublin Township has teamed up with RecycleBank to offer a curbside recycling program that rewards residents for recycling! The Township recycles using RecycleBank Carts on wheels. Residents may keep their old green recycling bins or return them by leaving them empty at the curb. Recycling is picked up the same day as your trash pick up. See the trash collection page for a schedule of holidays when recycling is moved to a Wednesday.
The amount your home recycles is translated into RecycleBank Rewards that you can use at participating stores and for professional services, such as local flower shops, book stores, magazine subscriptions, grocery stores, drug stores, restaurants, dentists, chiropractors, and Township Bulk Trash pickup or DONATE your points to local organizations.
Your account earnings are limited to 450 points per month.
TO REDEEM YOUR REWARDS FOR RECYCLING, visit www.recyclebank.com.
Download the complete rewards list in a PDF document from the RecycleBank web site (requires customer login to site).
TO DONATE YOUR REWARDS FOR RECYCLING, visit www.recyclebank.com.
Residents receive a 64-gallon RecycleBank Cart with wheels at no cost. The RecycleBank program allows residents to place all of their recyclables into one container. On scheduled recycling days, the container is weighed and a computer chip embedded in the container is scanned. For repair, replacement or to order a different size RecycleBank cart please call 1-888-727-2978.
***PLEASE NOTE: Keep the Brown Refuse Cart and the RecycleBank Cart at least 4 feet apart.
Visit the Documents & Forms page to download brochures, reports and collection route map.
The following items should be placed together in your RecycleBank Cart and then placed at least four feet away from your Refuse Cart:
*Paper/Cardboard
Newspaper, office paper, magazines, catalogues, junk mail, phone books, chipboard/cereal boxes and cardboard (NO hard-back books) can be recycled in the blue recycling cart (objects may NOT protrude out of the cart). For large amounts of Old Corrugated Cardboard (OCC) special Wednesday pickups can be ordered for flattened and bundled cardboard. See options for OCC below.
There are three ways to dispose of Old Corrugated Cardboard (OCC):
Strategies to reduce unwanted catalogs. Consumers can sign up for the free Catalog Choice Service. Users find the catalogs they receive on a list, then enter their customer identification numbers from the mailing labels to decline the catalogs. Catalog Choice then contacts the catalog providers and request that the names be removed from their mailing lists. This service is sponsored by the Ecology Center of California and is endorsed by the National Wildlife Federation, the Natural Resources Defense council and funded by the Overbrook Foundation, the Merck Family Fund, and the Kendeda Fund. Another way to reduce unwanted catalogs is to register with the Direct Marketing Association's Mail Preference Service for a $1 fee.
**What is #1 & #2 Plastic?
Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET, PETE) is classified as #1 plastic. PET is a clear, tough plastic commonly used in soft drink bottles.
High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) is classified as #2 plastic. HDPE is a plastic commonly used to make bottles for milk, juice, water and laundry products. Look on the bottom of the plastic bottle to find a recycling symbol with a #1 or #2 in its center. If there is any number other than #1 or #2 OR no markings at all, discard the item with regular household trash.
Please note: It is very important to remove and discard all bottle caps. These caps are almost always a different type of plastic. Even a small amount of the wrong type of plastic can prevent the plastic bottles from being recycled.
Please remember: we only accept #1 and #2 plastic BOTTLES. Not all #2 plastics are acceptable. Not accepted are plastic buckets, plastic toys, and Tupperware.
Ceramics, light bulbs, mirrors, plate or window glass, drinking glasses, Pyrex, lead crystal, coat hangers, curtain rods, ovenware, flower pots, plastic tub containers, plastic toys, Tupperware, milk cartons, juice boxes, pizza boxes (or any other food contaminated paper/cardboard), frozen food boxes or cans, pet food bags, photographs, wax paper, tin foil, carbon paper, plastic bags, disposable foil tins, aluminum or other scrap metal, aerosol cans or any container that was used for hazardous materials.
For further questions on what can or can't be recycled or any questions about the RecycleBank program visit www.recyclebank.com or call 1-888-727-2978.
Remember to: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Questions? Call the Public Works Department at (215) 643-1600 x3233.
Information is subject to change due to various conditions.
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801 Loch Alsh Avenue, Fort Washington, PA 19034
Phone: (215) 643-1600 Fax: (215) 542-0797
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The Township of Upper Dublin
801 Loch Alsh Avenue
Fort Washington, PA 19034
Phone: (215) 643-1600
Fax: (215) 542-0797
Seated left to right:
Ira S. Tackel(VP)-Ward 4
Jules J. Mermelstein-Ward 5
Robert J. Pesavento(Pres.)-Ward 1
Standing left to right:
Sharon L. Damsker-Ward 2
Chester H. Derr, III-Ward 3
Ronald P. Feldman-Ward 6
Stanley J. Ropski-Ward 7