{"id":305644,"date":"2026-10-13T09:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305644\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T09:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:30:26","slug":"reading-households-could-see-4-5-hike-in-trash-recycling-fees-reading-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305644\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading households could see 4.5% hike in trash, recycling fees | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 Residents in Reading could see an increase in trash and recycling fees in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>During Monday night\u2019s meeting, Reading City Council introduced an ordinance that will increase the trash and recycling fees by 4.5%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As part of the city\u2019s contract with Republic Services, the user fee will increase to $413.87 from the current $395.91 per unit.<\/p>\n<p>The new monthly charge in 2027 will be $34.49 per month \u2014 up from $32.99 in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.readingpa.gov\/images\/City_Council_regular_agenda\/10-12-26.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meeting documents<\/a> indicate that the 2027 rate for solid waste would actually decrease from $273.03 to $260. However, the \u201cclean city\u201d fee is set to increase by almost a dollar, while the recycling fee will increase by $30.<\/p>\n<p>In total, trash and recycling costs for 2027 will be nearly $18 more per household compared to 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the prices for additional recycling receptacles are set to increase from $67.50 to $70.88 for a 65-gallon cart and from $53 to $54.59 for a 35-gallon cart.<\/p>\n<p>The original five-year contract with Republic runs from 2022-26; 2027 is the first of two potential one-year extensions.<\/p>\n<p>Council will vote on the ordinance in two weeks and could discuss the matter at an upcoming Committee of the Whole meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Council does not discuss proposed ordinances at meetings when they are introduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 Residents in Reading could see an increase in trash and recycling fees in 2027. During&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[990,108075,736,128,130,129,125413,125414,125412],"class_list":["post-305644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-city-council","tag-fee-increase","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-recycling-fee","tag-republic","tag-trash-fee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305644","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=305644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}