Public Works Department
YARD WASTE RECYCLING PROGRAM

Upper Merion Township has successfully obtained a series of grants from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to promote an active and on-going recycling effort. Our compost site tub grinder, street sweeper and litter vacuum are acquisitions obtained with these grants. Recently, the Township has acquired a yard waste collection truck. Its primary function is to assist with collection of sticks, shrub clippings and limbs during scheduled Spring and Fall clean-up and after severe wind or ice storms.

Upper Merion Township conducts two Yard Waste Collection Programs each year. The Spring Program will include collection through the month of April. The Fall Program will follow during the month of September.

Residents who want their yard waste picked up during these periods must contact the Public Works Department by either: Calling 610-265-8465 prior to NOON on Wednesday of the week they wish to have the yard waste picked up, or Submitting an e-mail request <<click here>> prior to NOON on Wednesday of the week they wish to have the yard waste picked up.

Yard waste will be collected on Thursdays and Fridays, weather permitting. Collections which are delayed will be conducted on Mondays and Tuesdays of the following week.

The Public Works Department grinds the collected yard waste and stockpiles the mulch. Free mulch and leaf compost is available to residents at the compost site on Beidler Road.

Residents should comply with the following guidelines:

• Tree branches should be no longer than forty inches (40") in length and put in bundle's no larger than twenty-four inches (24") in diameter and tied with biodegradable string or twine.
• Tree limbs must be five inches (5'') or less in diameter.
• Tree limbs having, nails, wire or any type metal or cement will not be collected.
• Hedge and shrub trimmings should be bundled and tied with biodegradable string or twine.
• All bundles should be placed at the curb in an orderly pile.
• Any bundles with thorns, poison ivy-oak, wire, metal, or concrete stones will not be collected.
• Only stumps from ornamental shrubbery will be collected, and all dirt must be removed from stumps.
• No more than 150 lbs. of brush will be removed from any residence per pick up.
• No pressure-treated wood will be collected.
• No landscape timbers or railroad ties will be collected.
• No logs or fire wood will be collected.

Please note that this service does not include grass clippings. Nor does it include contracted services or materials cut by contracted services.