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Recycling Program   

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Note: Containers, boxes, baskets, cans and bundles, shall be placed along the curb for collection not before 6:00 p.m. on the day prior to collection and removed not later than 9:00 a.m. on the day following collection.

Recycling                     

For holidays falling on Thursday or Friday, the pickup for the particular day involved will not be made until the following week, which means the regular collection schedule will resume on Monday and Tuesday.

WE NOW COLLECT ALL RECYCLES AT CURB SIDE:

Place materials; (except paper and cardboard) in one container.

Glass, plastic, paper, steel, aluminum, bi-metal and cardboard.

Plastic– #2 HDPE & #1 PET only with lids and caps removed and free of food residue. 

Steel, aluminum and bi-metal food and beverage cans. You can include empty aerosol cans & empty paint cans only.  Please rinse out your recyclables.

Glass all colors

Paper and cardboard must be bundled separately                       

Recycling Glass

There are bins for your clear and colored glass in the parking lot of the Borough Hall and at the side of the Acme parking lot. 

Recycling Paper and Cardboard

There are bins for your paper and cardboard located at: parking lot of the Borough Hall, the Glen Brook Apartments off of Knowles Ave., the Contemporary Village Apartments behind K building and the Glendale Heights Ownership office.

Trash Pickup

The borough is divided into 2 sections. Section 1 has trash pickups on Monday and Thursday. Section 2 has trash pickups on Tuesday and Friday. There is no trash pickup on Holidays. Click here for Holiday trash and recycling schedules.

Residents are allowed up to two thirty gallons containers up to  50 pounds in weight. We do not pick up building rubbish from building construction, street refuse, industrial refuse, dead animals, machinery or vehicles or parts thereof or such other waste materials as are not commonly produced in homes, stores and institutions.

Storage

All trash, garbage or rubbish shall be contained in airtight, vermin proof containers, which containers shall be in an enclosed area and screened from view.

Commercial

The Borough has established a program for mandatory recycling by all commercial, industrial and institutional establishments of glass, paper, steel, aluminum, bi-metal and cardboard where applicable.

Plastic– #2 HDPE & #1 PET only with lids and caps removed and free of food residue. 

Commercial, industrial and institutional establishments must provide their own containers and contract for their own haulers to remove any recyclable items and provide the Borough with a written report at the end of each year with totals of their recycling efforts.