Curbside Trash:
Overview

• Tuesday is the pick-up day for trash removal (effective January 1, 2020).
• Annual fee for trash removal is $265.00 per residence, itemized on your real estate tax bill.

Weekly Trash Service

• Put your trash at curbside on Monday evening or before 5:30 AM Tuesday morning.
• Weekly limit of three 35 gallon containers or an equivalent volume from each residence.
• Residents may substitute one 3 ft x 3 ft securely tied bundle for the contents of one 35 gallon container.
• Because the Township pays the landfill tipping fee (per ton cost to dump trash), the hauler will strictly enforce the volume limit.
• By recycling, you can avoid exceeding the allowable amount of trash. Paper accounts for 35% of our waste.

Bulk Trash Pick Up

• Bulk trash is accepted on the last pick-up day each month.
• One large item is permitted each month, or two 35 gallon containers or bags in addition to weekly limit.
• Weight limited to an item two men can easily lift.

Acceptable Bulk Trash Items

• Furniture, mattress + box spring, small appliance, water heater, or similar items.
• Any air conditioner, refrigerator, or freezer must display a sticker certifying the removal of the refrigerant (“freon”) by an authorized dealer or repair facility. Please call the Township for more information. For the safety of our children, please remove the doors from refrigerators and freezers before placing the items by the curb.

Unacceptable Trash Items

• Automotive parts, tires, building materials, construction debris, and e-waste. E-waste includes: desktop/laptop computers, monitors, printers, copiers, televisions (all kinds including cathode ray tube, LED, LCD, and plasma), answering machines, camcorders, cell phones, laptop docking stations, electric typewriters, fax/copy machines, microwaves, radios, pagers, remote controls, gaming consoles, stereo/tape/CD players, telephones & equipment, toner/ink cartridges, and VCR/DVD players.  
• Household Hazardous Waste. What is Household Hazardous Waste? These are products in your home bearing any of these warnings on the label: Caution; Combustible; Corrosive; Danger; Explosive; Flammable; Hazardous; Poisonous; Reactive; Toxic; and/or Warning.  
• Recyclable items. Please see the Curbside Recycling tab on this page for details about recycling.
• Leaves and similar yard waste materials. The Township provides curbside pick-up of leaves in the Spring and Fall. Call (610) 269-8230 or check the Township website for dates.
• Christmas trees are accepted at the Municipal Complex after Christmas until late February for composting.

Leaf Collection

  Leaves awaiting collection.Please see the calendar for collection dates!

Please have leaves placed at curbside by Monday of each scheduled week. Place all leaves along the side of the road on lawn area within 6 ft of the edge of the road. Placing leaves on the lawn allows the leaves to dry and the vacuum can pick them up easier. Leaves must not be placed on the roadway, as this can cause a traffic hazard and they will not be picked up by the Road Crew. Do not block storm drain inlets and drainage areas. Our leaf vacuum cannot pick up sticks and branches, so please do not mix them with your leaf piles. Leaves can be placed in paper leaf bags but not in plastic bags.

If you have any further questions, please contact the East Brandywine Township Office at (610) 269-8230. Thank you for your participation and cooperation.

Yard Waste Collection

Please see the calendar for collection dates!

What will be collected? “Yard Waste” is restricted to biodegradable material such as leaves, grass, and small branches or twigs (no more than ½ inch in diameter) from general yard and garden maintenance. Yard Waste does not include large branches or tree limbs over ½ inch in diameter.

How will it be collected? Yard Waste must be contained in biodegradable bags available at area hardware stores. Residents may also place Yard Waste in clean trash cans (they must be completely clean of any household refuse as all Yard Waste is taken to a composting facility which cannot allow contamination of their compost grounds). Allowed trash cans are a maximum size of 95 gallons. Small branches or twigs must not be bundled with string (again, an issue for the composting facility), but must be placed in the bags or cans. All Yard Waste should be put in appropriate containers and left at curbside on the third Thursday night of the month or very early on the third Friday morning of the month (pick-up can start as early as 5:30am).

Wood Chipping

Each resident is allowed a one-time free visit of up to 15 minutes of chipping per calendar year. A calendar year starts January 1 and ends December 31. After 15 minutes, a $25 fee for every additional 15 minutes is charged. Each subsequent scheduled chipping service in a calendar year is $25 for every 15 minutes. Residents that call and have not put out materials will still count as one free chipping. If the resident has not paid any previous fees, no further chipping will be allowed.

Call the Township at (610) 269-8230 to schedule your visit. Limb lengths should be as long as possible with the cut ends left facing the road. Limbs should be no greater than 6"-8” in diameter.

Township employees can limit time spent chipping due to workload. Please list name, address, and phone number, along with billing address, if different. Township employees will document arrival time, completion time on work order, and initial.

During an emergency, township employees will chip material free of charge to clear the roadway. Any additional chipping will be done by appointment. We can no longer chip for free after a major storm.

Mulch Sales

Payment in the form of cash or check is required upon delivery or pick-up.

East Brandywine Township Residents:

• The cost is $15.00 per yard picked up or delivered.
• There is a $10.00 delivery charge.
• Delivery is free for residents that purchase a full load (6 yards).

Non-Residents:

• The cost is $15.00 per yard picked up or delivered.
• There is a $30.00 delivery charge outside of the Township within a 10 mile radius.
• There will be an additional $2.00 per mile charge outside the 10 mile radius. There is no discount for a full load.