The city of Allentown Recycling Drop Off Center at 1400 Martin Luther King Jr. remains closed today while crews clean the grounds and technicians assess flood water damage to an on-site electrical panel.

The Recycling Drop Off Center at 1400 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive is closed today due to flooding.

The Allentown Recycling Yard Waste Site at 1401 Oxford Drive will be closed on Friday, July 3 and Saturday, July 4 in observance of the Independence Day holiday.

Crews from the Allentown Department of Public Works collected more than 26-tons of trash from a recent one-day cleanup of illegal dumping.

N. Bradford Street will be closed from E. Allen Street to N. Dauphin Street on Wednesday, June 17 to cleanup illegally dumped construction debris, furniture, TVs and other trash along the roadside. 

The City of Allentown is resuming the curbside collection of bulk items effective Wednesday, May 13. 

The City of Allentown’s Yard Waste Drop-Off Site will open as scheduled on Wednesday, April 1 for city residents only.

The city of Allentown is suspending bulk item curbside collection effective the week of March 29 until further notice as a result of the COVID-19 Disaster Emergency.

The effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is resulting in some changes to the city of Allentown’s special event recycling programs.

The City of Allentown will receive more than $315,000 in a Recycling Program Performance Grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.