{"id":7226,"date":"2025-10-18T16:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7226\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:20:11","slug":"reading-to-hold-dumpster-day-household-cleanout-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7226\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading to hold Dumpster Day household cleanout event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading residents will have a chance to dispose of unwanted bulky items on Oct. 18 during the city\u2019s Dumpster Day event.<\/p>\n<p>The citywide event aims to facilitate community cleanup efforts and promote a cleaner, greener environment, a release from the city said.<\/p>\n<p>Unwanted items can be dropped off at eight disposal locations:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Baer Park, West Douglass and George streets<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 West Oley and McKnight streets<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 North Second and Oley streets<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 South Ninth and Chestnut streets<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Centre Avenue and Douglass Street<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 South Seventh and Bingaman streets<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 South Third and Spruce streets<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 E.J. Dives Playground, 383 Orrton Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The following items will not be accepted: hazardous materials, tires, used oil, household chemicals, paint, televisions and appliances.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>What:\u00a0Reading Dumpster Day Citywide Residential Clean Out<\/p>\n<p>When: Oct. 18, 8 a.m. to noon<\/p>\n<p>Where: Eight locations throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading residents will have a chance to dispose of unwanted bulky items on Oct. 18 during the city\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,857,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-7226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-essential-reading","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226","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=7226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}