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Curbside refuse collection is provided for the residents of the Borough of Green Tree by Waste Management, Inc. on Wednesdays. Garbage should be in a watertight sealed container and placed at curbside no earlier than 5:00 p.m. Tuesday evening.

In 2010, garbage collection will be delayed ONE DAY on the weeks following Memorial Day and Labor Day ONLY. Garbage collection WILL NOT be affected for any other holiday.

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'.

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.

EFFECTIVE JULY 2010: SPECIAL LIMITED TIME CURBSIDE COLLECTION OF REFRIGERANT-CONTAINING APPLICANTS TO BE DISCARDED! Allegheny County Health Department has launched a LIMITED TIME PROGRAM offering FREE curbside pickup and recycling of refrigerant-containing applicant which are no longer in use and need to be discarded

This limited time offer include refrigerators, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, water coolers and freezers. NO COMMERCIAL APPLICANCES PLEASE!

To schedule your free pickup, call the Appliance Warehouse at 1-888-463,7366 or Parkway Heat & Air Conditioning at 412-279-6001 for western Allegheny County municipalities.

If you are unsure whether an item can be placed at the curb for collection, please call the Administrative Office 412-921-1110 or send us an email.

Green Tree recycles newspaper, glass, metals, and aluminum! 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.

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.

Green Tree Borough now offers paper recycling! The new Abitibi paper recycling bin will accept:

• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Catalogs
• Workbooks
• Junk mail
• School papers
• Office Papers

• Cardboard
• Food boxes, fiberboard, chipboard
• Textbooks or hard-covered books
• Phone books

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.

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.

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.

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.

Green Tree is a proud member of the Southwest Pennsylvania Hazardous Household Waste Task Force along with Alcosan and other municipalities throughout southwestern Pennsylvania. They tackle issues such as funding, regulations, education and program organization and have scheduled multi-county household hazardous waste collections throughout the area. Household hazardous waste includes pesticides, insecticides, paints, varnishes, solvents and related cleaning products. Visit their page on the Green Tree site or visit their site directly.

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:

• Triangle Air Conditioning Co., Inc. 412-257-2677
• Parkway Heating & Air Conditioning 412-279-6001

For a more complete list of vendors, please contact the Freon Hotline at 1-888-GO FREON.