Trash/Recycling

Please place at your designated trash pickup area on Wednesday evening and the empty containers removed from the curbside or alley designated area within 24 hours of trash/recycling pickup. 

Do not place trash in the recycling container nor recycling in the trash container. Lids are clearly marked. Do not place yard waste in either container. Yard waste may be placed in brown paper yard waste bags found at grocery, home, garden, discount, and hardware stores.

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The Borough contracted Services with Harrisburg City Sanitation Division of Sanitation | City of Harrisburg (harrisburgpa.gov)Trash and Recycling Information - City of Harrisburg (harrisburgpa.gov)

Click links below for additional information:
Dauphin County Recycling Center
           ​Schedule of fees/items collected.
Recycling FAQ in Dauphin County
PA Guideline for Recycling in your community

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Report Illegal Dumping

For recyclable party store helium tanks, try CSR on Cameron Street  717-233-7927

CONTAINERS: In the Borough, one set of trash & recycling containers is issued per residential unit, per annual solid waste fee.  Containers have printed bar codes/identification which are assigned to the specific residence.   After the originally issued set of trash and recycling containers, one additional trash container may be purchased (total permitted toter capacity for trash, per residential unit, is up to 130 gallons). 

Examples of TRASH receptacle options for your annual curbside solid waste/recycling service fee:

Each residential unit may use one of the following Paxtang Borough logo imprinted toter options: 
-- one 95 gallon toter, or
--one or two 65 gallon toters (2nd one is purchased), or
-- one or two 35 gallon toters (if adding a 35 gallon - it would be purchased)

Click HERE for RECYCLING FLYER

Please put only these items into your blue-lid recycling container: • Plastic containers imprinted with numbers 1, 2 and 5 (please rinse) • Aluminum, steel (tin) beverage and food cans/containers (please rinse) • Cartons-milk, juice, wine, soup, etc. (please rinse) • Newspaper, bundled in a paper bag or tied with string •

Glass is a serious contaminant in mixed recycling because it breaks and gets mixed in with the other materials. Please take your glass to the drop off bins located in the lot behind the Paxtang Municipal Building.

Trash: diapers, food and food stained paper & plastic, mixed paper: paper, old mail, magazines, any glass that is not bottles or jars, ceramics, porcelain, bake and cook ware, plastics imprinted with numbers 3, 4, 6 and 7, alkaline (household, single-use) batteries, garden hoses, extension cords, and Christmas lights.

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BULK ITEMS You can dispose of one bulk item each week. Items include: furniture, mattresses, box springs, carpet, large appliances exercise equipment, entertainment units. • Tires: each household limited to eight per year, no rims • Small Engines: engines no larger than that of a walk-behind lawn mower can be a bulk item pick up. All fluids need to be removed responsibly before collection.

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RECYCLING/DISPOSAL RESPONSIBILITIES • Household Electronics: small appliances, computer equipment and televisions should all be taken to the

Dauphin County Recycling Center (1625 S Cameron Street). We are very fortunate to have this facility available to us for the proper recycling of electronics, and it’s free of charge. 

Plastic shopping bags, including dry-cleaning bags and other plastic film, can be recycled for Paxtang’s Lions Club Plastic Park Bench Project; look for the green barrel just inside entrance of the Municipal Building. (Clean and dry bags)

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 Additional Seperate Services: Construction/Demolition Waste: waste, including siding, timbers, soil, brick and concrete, must be taken to the Harrisburg Incinerator Transfer Station (19th Street). The fee will be $80 per ton. •

Rechargeable Batteries: batteries from power tools, computers, etc. can be recycled at the local hardware and battery stores