The City of Allentown and Lehigh County will celebrate America Recycles week beginning Sunday, November 9 with two contests and concluding with a four hour event at the Drop-off Center on Saturday, November 15!<\/p>\n
Allentown Recycling is promoting two contests- \u201cBin It to Win It!\u201d and \u201cDrop It to Win It.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBin It to Win It!\u201d is a contest to encourage curbside recycling where residents have a chance to win one of fifteen (15) $25 Visa gift cards.\u00a0 City residents that pay for curbside collection can pre-register for a chance to be randomly selected and checked on their recycling night for how well and how much they are recycling.<\/p>\n
In \u201cDrop It to Win It,\u201d residents are encouraged to bring their recyclables to the Drop-Off Center at 15th<\/sup> St. and Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. on Saturday, November 15 from 10 am – 2 pm and register for a chance to win one of (5) $25 gift cards.<\/p>\n Contestants in \u201cBin It to Win It!\u201d must pre-register online at www.allentownpa.gov<\/a> or at the Bureau of Recycling and Solid Waste office at 1400 Martin Luther King, Jr Dr. by Sunday, November 9 at 6:00pm.<\/p>\n Pre-registered participants must have their green and blue recycling bins out by 8:00pm on their recycling night.\u00a0 Three (3) $25 Visa gift cards will be awarded in each recycling zone night (Sun, Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri) to qualified residents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Residents should be recycling all mixed paper, cardboard & paperboard, mail & magazines, newspapers & telephone books in their blue bins.\u00a0 All aluminum cans, foil and pie plates, steel cans, plastic bottles, tubs and buckets marked #1-#7, glass bottles & jars, milk, juice & broth cartons, metal pots & pans go in the green bin!<\/p>\n The prize money for the \u201cBin It to Win It!\u201d contest is sponsored by Waste Management, Inc., Allentown\u2019s trash and recycling hauler.<\/p>\n The Allentown Recycling Drop-off Center is jointly run by the Allentown Bureau of Recycling & Solid Waste and Lehigh County Juvenile Probation.\u00a0 Since the start of this collaboration, Lehigh County Juvenile Probation has been able to reimburse close to 3,000 Lehigh County crime victims, pay $700,000 in restitution to victims of juvenile crime, and divert millions of pounds of recycling materials from landfills.<\/p>\n The Allentown Recycling Drop Off Center accepts newspaper, mixed colored paper & magazines, books & phone books, cardboard, paperboard, cartons (milk, juice, drink boxes), scrap metal, plastics bottles, tubs & buckets marked #1- #7, glass bottles & jars, aluminum cans, foil & pie plates, steel cans, clothing & textiles.<\/p>\n In 2013, Allentown residents recycled 6,578 tons of green and blue bin material in the curbside collection program and 1,312.4 tons from the recycling drop-off center.<\/p>\n Recycling has many rewards and benefits.\u00a0 It\u2019s good for the environment, reduces pollution, conserves energy and our natural resources, and saves money on trash disposal costs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Press Release provided by:<\/p>\n Mike Moore The City of Allentown and Lehigh County will celebrate America Recycles week beginning Sunday, November 9 with two contests and concluding with a four hour event at the Drop-off Center … Continue reading ALLENTOWN TO CELEBRATE RECYCLING WEEK<\/span>
\nCommunications Manager
\nOffice of the Mayor
\nMike.Moore@allentownpa.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"