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<\/p>\nALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Allentown switched trash haulers at the start of June, a change that brought a major shakeup to yard-waste collection.<\/p>\n
The city moved to year-round pickups this month after Allentown officials hired J.P. Mascaro & Sons.<\/p>\n
Waste Management collected yard waste weekly from spring through fall for many years, but crews from the new hauler are set to pick up residents\u2019 yard waste half as often, but year-round.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just want to make sure everyone knows when to put out their yard waste, how they\u2019re allowed to put out their yard waste, because the last thing we would want anyone to get is a SWEEP ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jessica Trobetsky, Allentown’s Bureau of Recycling & Solid Waste<\/p>\n
During the first month of the new schedule, workers from Allentown\u2019s Solid Waste Education and Enforcement Program placed more than 1,300 \u201cOOPS!\u201d tags on yard-waste bags placed out for collection at the wrong time, according to Jessica Trobetsky, who works in the city Bureau of Recycling & Solid Waste.<\/p>\n
Fines coming<\/p>\n
That \u201cextra education\u201d for residents will end soon, Trobetsky said. The city will start issuing fines July 1 for misplaced yard waste.<\/p>\n
\u201cSWEEP officers will start enforcing the curbside rules again,\u201d she said. \u201cWe just want to make sure everyone knows when to put out their yard waste, how they\u2019re allowed to put out their yard waste, because the last thing we would want anyone to get is a SWEEP ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n
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City of Allentown<\/p>\n
Allentown moved to year-round yard-waste collection in June. <\/p>\n
Residents face tickets of $25 or $100 for violating Allentown\u2019s yard-waste-collection rules; enforcers can write a new ticket every day for the same violation, according to city code.<\/p>\n
Residents also can be cited if they don\u2019t pay a yard-waste fine within 20 days.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s yard-waste drop-off site \u2014 1401 Oxford Drive \u2014 is open to residents from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays and from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through Nov. 22.<\/p>\n
Allentown City Council last year approved a five-year, $90 million contract for J.P. Mascaro & Sons. That can be extended up to four more years for $90 million more.<\/p>\n
Residents\u2019 costs climbed significantly with the new contract. The annual trash fee rose from $415 last year to $605 in 2025; it could jump $135 more next year, according to city projections.<\/p>\n
That would see residents\u2019 trash fees climb more than 75% in just two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Allentown switched trash haulers at the start of June, a change that brought a major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,2570,2571,121,120,2572,2573,2574,2575,2576,2577],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-collection","tag-allentown-fines","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-recycling","tag-allentown-tickets","tag-allentown-trash","tag-allentown-yard-waste","tag-allentown-yard-waste-schedule","tag-updated-yard-waste-schedule-allentown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}