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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.

Christmas trees and other yard waste will be collected in the city of Allentown during the weeks of Sunday, January 5 and Sunday, January 19. 

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

The last regularly scheduled day for the city of Allentown yard waste site at 1401 Oxford Drive is Saturday, November 23 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.