1480 Windsor Road
Red Lion, PA 17356
Phone:  717-244-3512
Fax:  717-246-6172
info@windsortwp.com

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Information on Yard Waste from the YCSWA

The York County Solid Waste Authority accepts dedicated loads of yard waste from York County residents.  The minimum fee to bring yard waste to the Resource Recovery Center (located at 2653 Blackbridge Road ), is $10 up to 340 pounds and from there the fee is prorated up to $56 a ton.  After checking in at the Resource Recovery Center , all dedicated loads of yard waste are then diverted to our yard waste transfer facility located down the street from our Resource Recovery Center.  Residents receive a gate token to access our yard waste transfer site where they then unload their yard waste.  The yard waste is then shipped off-site to a commercial operation.  To reiterate, we do not burn dedicated loads of yard waste, they are diverted to our yard waste transfer site to be recycled into beneficial mulch.  For more information about how your garbage is managed in York County, visit our web site at www.ycswa.com or call 717-845-1066.

Trash and Recycling Information


COMPACT FLUORESCENT LIGHT BULB RECYCLING

The Township is participating in a program sponsored by PPL Electric to recycle compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. This is only for the small fluorescent bulbs, not the long fluorescent tubes. You can recycle your unbroken CFL bulbs by bringing them to the Township Office during normal business hours.


Windsor Township is pleased to provide trash collection and recycling to all residents of Windsor Township.  This service is being provided at no charge to residents and will be paid from the host municipal benefit fee that we receive from Modern Landfill.

ARE THERE ANY LIMITATIONS ON THE AMOUNT OF TRASH?
There is a 4 bag limit.  Each container, when filled, may not weigh more than 75 lbs. nor exceed a volume of 32 gallons.  All refuse must be in containers, such as plastic trash bags, or tied in bundles not larger than 3 feet by 3 feet.  Each such bundle will be considered a container and the maximum weight of 75 lbs. shall apply.  If desired, a toter may be rented from York Waste Disposal by calling the Customer Service Department at 1-800-210-9675.

REMEMBER - The hauling company will not take more than four bags of trash a week, nor will they collect tires.  Tires are only collected during the large item Spring and Fall Collection.  NO HOT ASHES or COALS at ANY TIME.

HOW DOES A HOLIDAY EFFECT THE COLLECTION SCHEDULE?
When there is a holiday on a weekday, collection will be one day late after the holiday.  The holidays observed by York Waste Disposal are:  New Years Day, Memorial Day, July 4th (if it is a weekday), Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.  For example:  Thanksgiving Day is a Thursday.  Therefore, the regular Thursday collection will take place on Friday and the regular Friday collection will take place on Saturday.

MUST I RECYCLE?
Yes.  Pennsylvania law requires all Windsor Township residential and commercial properties to recycle.  All recyclable materials must be removed from the regular trash.  This is not only the right thing to do environmentally, but it saves money in disposal costs.  VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED.

 WHAT ITEMS MUST BE RECYCLED?
Clear and colored glass - food and beverage bottles and jars only.  Rinse containers.  Remove all caps and lids and dispose lids with regular trash.  Labels do not have to be removed.  DO NOT BREAK GLASS.  No window glass, drinking glasses, dishes, or light bulbs.

Aluminum cans, bi-metal, iron, steel and tin cans - food and beverage cans only.  Rinse containers.  Labels do not have to be removed.  DO NOT CRUSH CANS.  No foil, pie plates, aerosol cans, siding or scrap metals or aluminum.

Natural and pigmented plastic narrow-neck containers or bottles - soda bottles, milk and water jugs, laundry detergent containers.  Ones that have a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or a 7 inside the recycle triangle symbol on the bottom of the container.  Labels do not have to be removed.  Remove caps and discard them in regular trash.  Plastic bottles should be crushed and flattened.

Newspapers, magazines, catalogs, phone books, glossy inserts, junk mail, printer paper, computer paper, copy paper, construction paper, kraft paper, cereal boxes and shoes boxes (or similar).  Items may not be wax coated.  These items may be placed in brown paper bags or in the bin.

Corrugated cardboard - cut down small enough to fit in the bin.  Cardboard may not be wax coated.

ITEMS THAT ARE NOT RECYCLABLE
Plastic bags, batteries, styrofoam, light bulbs, perfume/cologne bottles, wood or yard waste, unnumbered plastics, wire coat hangers, household items, aerosol cans and items containing or having debris and residue containing hazardous or toxic substances such as paint, motor oil, gasoline or petroleum products.

 Recycling bins must stay with the property.  If you move, leave the bin with the property.  Windsor Township will not replace bins.

WHAT ABOUT GRASS CLIPPINGS AND YARD WASTE?
The best thing you can do is to begin backyard composting.  It is very important to remove grass clippings from the waste stream.  Leaves, grass clippings and other yard wastes account for 18% of the waste stream.  Based on the cost per ton for disposal, removal of grass clippings will save a substantial amount of money in disposal costs.
Additionally, leaving the grass clippings on your lawn gives you the benefit of expensive fertilizer.  Decomposed grass clippings replaces the nitrogen in your soil.

WHERE DO I TURN FOR MORE INFORMATION OR IF I HAVE QUESTIONS?
Call the Township Office at 244-3512.

Remember to:

  • Have your trash and recyclables out at the curb before 6:00 A.M. on your collection day.

  • Put out only 4 bags of trash or 1 York Waste Disposal toter and 1 bag.

THINGS THAT WILL NOT BE COLLECTED

  • Hazardous materials, tires, white goods, and any large items not meeting the 32 gallon, 75 lb. capacity.