Recycling, Wood Chipping, Paper Shredding Events In Willistown

WILLISTOWN TOWNSHIP, PA — Willistown Township is offering residents a few chances to recycle large items, chip yard waste, and shred documents in April and May.

The township is hosting its annual one-day, no-charge, drop-off recycling program from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 20 at the Charles E. Coxe Memorial Campus at 688 Sugartown Road in Malvern.

Accepted items include: metal, items partially made of metal, tires, refrigerators, any item containing Freon (refrigerators, dehumidifiers, air conditioners), washers, dryers, electrically-powered items, and electronics waste (eWaste), including TVs and computers/monitors.

Items not accepted include mattresses, oil tanks, upholstered furniture, large tractor/truck tires, household hazardous waste; e.g. mercury, drain cleaners, turpentine, oil-based paint, pool cleaners, and more.

Then the next weekend, the township is hosting a chipping day from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 27 at the Charles E. Coxe Memorial Campus

Residents can bring tree, brush, and shrub limbs and branches no greater than 8 inches in diameter to the campus for chipping.

Items will be unloaded and chipped free of charge, then used for trails.

Wood other than as described above will not be accepted.

Wooden furniture, ladders, fence posts/rails, telephone poles, landscaping wood, construction wood, paneling, scrap wood, or any wood with mails, hooks, or metal in it will not be accepted. These types of wood will have to be taken home if brought for chipping.

Leaves and grass is also not accepted.

Then from 9 a.m. to noon — or when the shredding truck reaches its 5-ton capacity — on Saturday, May 18 at the Charles E. Coxe Memorial Campus residents can shred documents for free.

Cancelled checks, new checks that you’ll never use, insurance statements, tax forms, charge/bank/debit statements, receipts, savings passbooks, confidential letters, and brokerage statements are some types of sensitive documents that people need to dispose of with finality in this age of identity theft.

Shredding will take place on site in a specially equipped truck.

Residents are limited to six boxes per person.

Newspapers, magazines, cardboard, wallpaper, books, sheets of plastic, Pendaflex folders with metal strips, or three-ring binders will not be accepted.

All all binder clips must be removed from materials.

Items containing staples, standard paper clips, or rubber bands will be accepted.

This is a program for residents, not for commercial enterprises seeking to empty file cabinets.