Municipal Waste Services

Palmerton Borough

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Our Customer Service team hours are:

8am – 5pm Monday-Friday
8am – 12pm Saturdays
Direct Dial 610-936-9967

Need to check your service day?

Your Service day is Monday.

Recycle collection will occur every other week on Monday. The first recycling collection will be Monday, January 13th.

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Trash Service Palmerton Borough

Whitetail Disposal is proud to partner with Palmerton Borough to provide weekly trash and bi-weekly recycling service to it’s residents.

Up to five (5) thirty-five (35) gallon bags not to exceed forty (40) pounds per container.
Please make sure to have your waste curbside Sunday night for collection on Monday.

We cannot take:

Hazardous waste including radioactive, reactive, toxic, ignitable, corrosive, or acidic items.
E-waste including televisions, computers, etc.
C & D including materials resulting from construction, remodeling, repair or demolition operations.

Palmerton Borough

Bulk Waste

Each residential property shall be entitled to place one item of bulk waste at the curb each week.

Large items of refuse including, furniture, carpet, mattresses, and appliances normally generated at a residential property.

This does not include construction debris: waste building materials resulting from construction, remodeling, repair or demolition operations.

Mattresses and Toilets

For our employees’ safety:

Mattresses and box springs must be wrapped in plastic.
Toilets must be bagged.

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How to Schedule

While it is not required, it is very helpful to contact our Municipality Department by 12pm on Friday.

Direct Dial 610-936-9967
[email protected]

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Recycling Services

Recyclables must be clean and dry.

Do not bag recyclables.

If your recycling is contaminated it will be handled as trash.

Acceptable Items

All bottles and containers must be rinsed clean and dry.

Dirty recycling is contaminated recycling.

Shredded paper cannot be recycle. It clogs the recycling sorting line.

If paper is soiled or wet, compost or trash it.

Must be broken down.

If cardboard is soiled, compost or trash it.

Make sure containers are rinsed out and completely empty to avoid contamination.

Dirty recycling is contaminated recycling.

Make sure glass containers are rinsed out and completely empty to avoid contamination.

Dirty recycling is contaminated recycling.

Unacceptable Items

Plastic bags are not accepted as part of curbside recycling programs – they get tangled in equipment and threaten worker safety.

Plastic bags can be recycled at most grocery stores.

Plastic wrap, bubble wrap, sandwich bags and freezer bags should not go in the recycle bin.

Reuse whenever possible for presents, moving, or storage of similar items, or look for local options to recycle.

Flexible packaging like chip bags and juice or soup pouches cannot be recycled in curbside programs.

This type of packaging is made from multiple materials preventing it from being recycled.

Food and yard was cannot be recycled through our curbside program.

Compost or utilize UMT’s yard waste program.

Polystyrene foam, plastic “to-go” containers and cups are made of non-recyclable materials, and are not acceptable in the curbside recycling program.

Packing peanuts aren’t recyclable either, however some shipping stores will take peanuts back for reuse.

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Yard Waste and Leaves

Whitetail Disposal has partnered with Palmerton Borough to provide a year round yard waste disposal program.

Bags of yard waste may be placed out in addition to your standard MSW containers/bags each week.

Leaves, branches (1-1/2″in diameter & 3′ long) and shrubbery.
All leaf/yardwaste must be contained in brown bio-degradable bags

Must be placed in bio-degradable bag on your normal garbage day.

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