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Green Tree Recycling Center Public Works Parking Lot Behind the Fire Hall/Pool parking lot Poplar Street
The Green Tree Public Works Department supervises a leaf collection recycling program in the fall. Leaves are collected curbside on a weekly basis from mid-October until early December. A free compost pile for public use is available at the Green Tree Park parking lot entrance. After the Christmas holidays, the Public Works Department collects discarded, undecorated Christmas trees for mulching and use throughout the Borough parks and properties. For more details about the leaf collection program, click here.
Offers Free Curbside Pickup of Freon-Containing Appliances The Allegheny County Health Department is sponsoring a free program to collect and recycle freon-containing household appliances that are no longer in use and need to be discarded. The program is available to Allegheny County residents only and offers curbside pickup of refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, water coolers and other household appliances that contain freon. No commercial appliances will be accepted. "Removing freon from these appliances and then recycling them is a win-win for the environment and public health," said County Health Director Dr. Bruce W. Dixon. "Hillsides are less likely to be littered with abandoned appliances, valuable landfill space is conserved and removal of freon prevents release of gases that deplete the ozone layer, which blocks the sunšs ultraviolet rays that increase the risk of skin cancer." The program, funded by a $90,000 grant from the County Clean Air Fund, will begin May 29 and continue until at least 2,250 appliances are collected and recycled. The Appliance Warehouse on the South Side will carry out the program under a contract with the Health Department. For more information and to arrange for an appliance pickup, please call 1-888-GO-FREON (1-888-463-7366).
Goodwill Industries of Pittsburgh Reconnect Pittsburgh, a free drop-off program for recycling of unwanted computers by area residents. The program helps protect the environment through the responsible recycling or reuse of computer equipment, and provides residents a convenient opportunity to support a local charity.
Pittsburgh area residents can visit www.reconnectpartnership.com to locate the most convenient drop-off location at any of the 33 local Goodwill donation stations and retail stores. The closest drop off to Green Tree Borough is the Goodwill Store at 2866 Banksville Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15216.
For immediate information on disposing of recyclables such as clothing, cardboard, paper, batteries, motor oil and other items, call the Borough offices for more information at 412-921-1110. Local freon removal facilities near Green Tree include:
For a more complete list of vendors, please contact the Freon Hotline at 1-888-GO FREON. "THINK GLOBALLY -- ACT LOCALLY -- RECYCLE!"
Curbside refuse collection is provided for the residents of the Borough of Green Tree by Waste Management, Inc. Garbage should be in bags or cans and placed at curbside no earlier than 5:00 p.m. Tuesday evening. Green Tree's regularly scheduled collection day is Wednesday, except when any of the following holidays fall on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. In those cases, garbage collection will be delayed by one day:
In 2008, garbage collection will be delayed ONE DAY on the weeks following New Year's Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day ONLY.
Disposal of large appliances require that doors are removed from them for safety reasons. Refrigerators and air conditioners MUST have the freon removed prior to placing it at the curb. An appropriate sticker indicating that the freon has been removed must be prominently displayed on the refrigerator or air conditioner or it will not be collected.
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Green Tree recycles newspaper, glass, metals, aluminum and telephone books! Newspapers must be kept separate and are placed in the green dumpster near the Public Works facility on Poplar Street. Glass, metals and aluminum should be rinsed clean and can be co-mingled in the same bag and deposted in the brown dumpster. A separate, smaller dumpster has been provided for the recycling of telephone books only.
If you can separate your aluminum cans from your other recyclables, the Green Tree Rotary has a bin for the collection of aluminum cans. The proceeds from the recycling of the cans are used toward local projects such as college scholarships, flu clinics, youth sports programs, etc.
Goodwill will accept donated computer equipment from residents at each of its retail stores and donation centers in the Pittsburgh area. Goodwill will consolidate and sort equipment for shipment to a Dell product recovery partner for reuse or recycling. Equipment that meets minimum standards will be refurbished and resold and all proceeds will support its non-profit job training and community programs. Equipment that cannot be refurbished will be responsibly recycled. Donors will be responsible for removing data from hard drives and other storage media before donating to Goodwill.
Green Tree is a proud member of the 
Refuse pick-up can include furniture, appliances, plumbing fixtures and accessories, newsprint and other trash, scrap, litter, debris, household equipment such as stoves, refrigerators, water heaters and furnace pipes, broken glass, bottles, crockery, tin cans, waste and refuse normally generated from a household or public building, lawn and yard debris, such as lawn clippings, weeds, leaves, twigs, vines, clippings from shrubs and hedges, garden plants, tree branches not exceeding 36 inches when cut, building materials smaller than 3'x2'x2'.