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Waste Management has caught-up with normal trash and recycling collection in the City of Allentown following the late Monday into early Tuesday ice storm.

The winter ice storm expected to begin Monday afternoon and continue into early morning Tuesday will cause a change in the start time for Waste Management to collect the trash and recycling in the city of Allentown.

The Recycling Drop-off Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive near the 15th Street Bridge re-opened at 9 o’clock this morning.

Waste Management crews working in the city of Allentown will attempt trash collection on the regular Thursday night route tonight, February 4.

Due to the difficulties traveling around the city caused by the near record snowfall, the Allentown Bureau of Recycling and Solid Waste is cancelling trash and recycling collection Wednesday night, February 2, 2021.

Due to the current snowstorm, the City of Allentown has approved the cancelling of trash and recycling collection Tuesday night, February 2.

Trash and recycling collection was cancelled on Monday night, February 1.

Fake snow may look appealing on a Christmas tree, but it is not good for the mulch that the City of Allentown produces from those discarded trees.

Christmas trees and other yard waste will be collected in the city of Allentown during the weeks of Sunday, January 10 and Sunday, January 17.

The Bureau of Recycling and Solid Waste is announcing its Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve Trash and Recycling Collection schedule.