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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 2011, garbage collection will be delayed ONE DAY on the weeks following Memorial Day, Independence Day (July 4th) 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'.

Some restrictions apply when disposing building materials. Please contact the Borough Office at 412-921-1110 for specifics and additional information.

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.

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

PLEASE NOTE: Green Tree no longer recycles telephone books. Do NOT place telephone books in the paper recycling bins. Telephone books can be recycled at the following locations:

The Pennsylvania Resources Council's Zero Waste Project has partnered with Allegheny County Health Department, Colcom Foundation, eLoop llc, Liberty Tire Recycling, Global Links, Construction Junction, Off the Floor Pittsburgh and NewsRadio 1020 KDKA to present the following 2011 Hard to Recycle collection events:

For more information, visit Zero Waste Pittsburgh.

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.