ANNOUNCEMENT WHAT S NEW? EFFECTIVE MARCH 1, 2018 NEW! 2018 SANITATION CALENDAR NEW! WEEKLY RECYCLING NEW! WESTCHESTER COUNTY GUIDE

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1 ANNOUNCEMENT WHAT S NEW? EFFECTIVE MARCH 1, 2018 NEW! 2018 SANITATION CALENDAR NEW! WESTCHESTER COUNTY GUIDE Westchester County Curbside Guide NEW! WEEKLY RECYCLING AREA A: EVERY THURSDAY AREA B: EVERY FRIDAY APTS/MERCHANTS : EVERY THURSDAY BULK PICK-UP SERVICE SHALL REMAIN THE SAME!

2 A Guide to Curbside in Westchester Curbside Guidelines Recycle plastic bags separately by returning them to any large grocery store that dispenses plastic bags to customers. For information on proper disposal of needles, syringes, and lancets, visit our website and view the "Sharp Smarts" brochure, or call the HelpLine at (914) Paper & Recycle: Newspapers, glossy inserts, phone books, magazines, junk mail, brown paper bags, and corrugated and gray cardboard boxes. How: Remove plastic linings, windows and excessive tape. Place mixed paper in a brown bag or loose in the recycling bin. Flatten and place boxes inside each other. Don t Include: Plastic or Styrofoam packing materials, cardboard with any trace of food, paperbacks or hardcover books. Consider donating books to a library. Plastics 1-7 Recycle: All plastics coded with any number between 1 through 7, commonly used for food, beverages, detergents, household cleaners and shampoo. Include coded pails and buckets, as well as coded flower pots and trays rinsed free of soil or other products. How: All plastics must be rinsed clean and free of food waste and other products. Plastic caps on jars and bottles are acceptable. Place plastics loose in the bin with glass, metal containers and cartons. Don t Include: Plastic bags, plastic film, vinyl, Styrofoam, polystyrene, any unmarked or noncoded plastics (toys, pools, furniture, clothing hangers, or utensils), building materials (piping, sinks, or other fixtures), and containers which held potentially hazardous materials (motor oil, pesticides, or solvents). Remember: Recyclables (glass, metal, plastics, and cartons) can be mixed in the same recycling bin Partial funding provided by the NYS DEC Glass Containers Recycle: Glass jars or bottles of any size or color. How: Rinse all containers. Place jars, bottles and loose caps in the recycling bin with plastics, metal, and cartons. Don t Include: Glass that is not used for packaging food or beverages (light bulbs, drinking glasses, crystal, windows, mirrors, ceramic ware, or kitchen cookware). Empty glass containers which held potentially hazardous materials (pesticides or solvents) should be discarded as garbage. Metal Containers Recycle: Food and beverage cans, clean aluminum foil and trays, and empty aerosol cans. How: Rinse all containers and place them loose in the recycling bin with glass, plastics, and cartons. Don t Include: Empty paint cans or metal containers that held potentially hazardous materials (pesticides, glues, or solvents). metals such as aluminum siding, scrap metal, wire, pipes, tubing, motors, sheet metal, appliances and auto parts are recycled under separate municipal programs. Call your municipality for details. Cartons Recycle: Gable-top refrigerated food and beverage cartons (milk cartons), aseptic cartons (non-dairy beverages and soup), juice boxes, and ice cream containers. How: Rinse cartons and place them loose in the recycling bin with glass, metal, and plastic containers. Don't Include: Paper cups/dishware or juice/yogurt pouches. For more information, call the Westchester County HelpLine at (914) or visit environment.westchestergov.com/recycling

3 2018 Sanitation/ Calendar, Pelham (For General Information and Instructions - Scroll to End of Calendar) : Pelville, Chester Park : Pelham Heights, Pelhamwood Apartments and Homes on Fifth Avenue, Apartments on Wolfs Lane and Lincoln Avenue (see below) /Merchant (see below) : A- Monday and Thursday (See General Info. for Items Accepted) B- Tuesday and Friday Apts./- Monday, Wednesday, Friday : A- Every other Thursday (See General Info. for Items Accepted) B- Every other Friday Apts. - Every Wednesday (No bulk pickup for ) : A- Every Thursday (See General Info. for Items Accepted) B- Every Friday Apts./- Every Thursday (Co-mingled & Paper) Waste: April 4-December 15 (See General Info. for Items Accepted) -Wednesday (April 4-October 10- R & S Waste) -Mon.-Fri (October 15-December 15 by DPW) Christmas trees are picked up by the DPW at the curb from Dec. 26 th to January 31 st. (Trees must be bare of all ornaments, lights and stands, no garlands, no wreaths) : Every Tuesday and Thursday For Spring and Fall Leaf Collection- See Instructions at End of Calendar For, Trash and Misses- Contact Waste Services at or pelhamsanitation@wasteservices.net Metals-Contact Waste Services at or pelhamsanitation@wasteservices.net (See General Info. for Items Accepted and further instructions) TV s and Monitors-Call Ex Holidays- No Collections New Years- Monday, January 1 Martin Luther King Jr. - Monday, January 15 Presidents Day- Monday, February 19 Memorial Day-Monday, May 28 Independence Day- Wednesday, July 4 Labor Day-Monday, September 3 Columbus Day- Monday, October 8 Thanksgiving Day-Thursday, November 22 Christmas Day- Tuesday, December 25

4 January 2018 New Year s Day No Pick Up Apt M L King Day No Pickup

5 February Presidents Day No Pickup

6 March A/ A/

7 April & B A/ & B Easter & B A/ & B

8 May & B A/ & B Mother s Day & B A/ & B Memorial Day No Pick up /Apt. Mer & B A Com Card boar d A/

9 June & B & B A/ & B & B A/

10 July /Apt MER/ 4 th of July & B No Pick up & B A/ & B & B A/

11 August 2018 & B & B A/ & B & B A/ & B

12 September Labor Day No Pickup & B A/ & B & B A/ & B

13 October & B A/ Columbus Day No Pickup & B & B & B & B A A/ B & B & B & B & B & B & B A B

14 November 2018 A A/ B & B & B & B & B A & B B & B & B Apt. & B A A/ B & B & B A Gar Apt. bag e A/ mer Thanksgiving Day No Pickup B & B & B & B mer A A/ B

15 December & B & B & B A B & B & B & B A A/ B Christmas Day No Pickup mer 26 A/ mer

16 General Information Residential ( Information on the last page) : All materials must be placed curbside after 7 p.m. on the night before collection date in residential areas. Do not place items in plastic bags. Comingled Items: Glass: only food and beverage containers made of unbroken clear, brown or green glass. Metal Containers: food and beverage containers, clean aluminum foil and trays, and empty aerosol cans. Plastics: Plastic containers (codes 1-7 printed on containers) commonly used for food, beverage, detergents and shampoos. Cartons: Gable-top refrigerated food and beverage cartons (milk cartons), aseptic cartons (non-dairy beverages and soup), juice boxes, and ice cream containers. All comingled items should be rinsed, lids removed then combined in one bin or more. Metal lids can be placed in the bin with comingled items and plastic lids should be placed your regular garbage. Paper Items: Newspapers, outdated phone books, paperback and hardcover books (covers removed), magazines, junk mail, brochures, catalogs, advertisements, letters and envelopes, cereal, tissue, and clean pizza boxes. Place curbside in a bin, brown paper bag or small corrugated cardboard box. Do not bundle with cord, twine or rope, or put in plastic bags. Corrugated and Brown Paper Bags: Remove excessive amounts of adhesive tape, tie in bundles or break down and box. Do not place in plastic bags. You may combine all paper items for pick-up. Please remember not to tie anything in bundles except for corrugated cardboard and brown paper bags. Do not place items in plastic bags. Blue recycle bags are not accepted at the Municipal Facility. Items Not Accepted: Light Bulbs, kitchenware, crystal, mirrors and windows, paint cans, pesticide containers, oil cans, five gallon pails, foam plastic, plastic bags and flower pots. Any container containing potentially hazardous chemicals. No Styrofoam or plastic packing materials. Household : Must be placed in container by 6:30 a.m. on pick up day. All household waste, other than recyclable waste and anic waste, which is compactible and which can be put into a bag and placed in a 32 or 33 gallon container.

17 Items not Accepted in Household : Recyclables, household hazardous wastes, large items qualifying for bulk pickup. Rubbish: All materials must be placed curbside after 7p.m. on the night before the collection date in residential areas. Defined as all items that you would not usually discard in your household garbage. These items usually include such things as furniture and/or large toys; carpets (must be cut in 3 sections, rolled and tied). These items must be placed curbside for pick up but not before 7p.m. the night before. If at any time you make arrangements for a special pick up with Waste Services please notify the Village at info@pelhamgov.com when you will be putting the items out for pick up. Items not Accepted in Rubbish: Car Batteries, car tires, glass, building materials, debris from construction work, bath tubs, sinks, toilets, tree stumps, logs, concrete, cement, asphalt, rocks and dirt. Television and computer monitors (See below). Televisions and Computer Monitors: These items contain CRT (Cathode Ray Tubes) that contain lead and are no longer acceptable at the landfill. Please call Village Hall to arrange for a pick up at , ex. 4. Covered Electronic Equipment: (see website under sanitation for complete list and details of proper disposal); includes microwaves, toaster ovens, computer peripherals, vcr s, dvd players, digital converter boxes, digital video recorders, cable or satellite receivers, electronic or video game consoles. Metal- Contact Waste Services at or pelhamsanitation@wasteservices.net for any questions or to arrange for a pickup. Defined as most metal items that you would normally discard of in your trash collection. Some of these items include: dishwashers, washing machines, dryers, iron fencing, refrigerators and air conditioners (Freon removed and certified), stoves, hot water heaters, metal and iron piping, metal file cabinets and shelving. Refrigerator doors must be removed. If at any time you make arrangements for a special pick up with Waste Services please notify the Village at info@pelhamgov.com when you will be putting the items out for pick up. Waste: April 5 through December 15-All anic must be placed curbside after 7 p.m. on the night before collection date on specified days only. April 5-October 11, & B-Wednesday, October 15-December 15- & B- Monday through Friday. defined as all grass clippings, flowers, leaves, brush, small branches and twigs must be put in either a biodegradable paper bag or an open gallon container. cannot be mixed in with anic waste. All bags and containers must be placed at curbside for pick up on specified days only. Branches should be in 3 lengths bundled and tied. Christmas trees are picked up by the DPW at the curb from Dec. 26 th to January 31 st only. No anic pick up between Dec.15 and March 15. Items must be held.

18 Items not Accepted with :, logs, tree stumps, pumpkins and large tree branches. Spring and Fall Leaf Collection: Leaves Only All loose leaves are to be placed curbside between March 15 and April 30 and again between October 15 and December 15. The Village DPW picks up every day and works their way around the Village picking up a section at a time on a revolving basis. No pick up after Dec.15. After Dec. 15 items must be held until loose leaf pick up begins again on March 15. Do not mix twigs, branches, rubbish or any other materials in the leaf piles as it contaminates the piles and they will not be accepted at the anic waste site. See above for all other anic materials. Household Hazardous Waste: Hazardous household chemicals should never be thrown away with your regular garbage or poured into the drain. For more information about how to dispose of these chemicals, including drop off locations and questions contact the Westchester County Household Chemical Info line at Qualifying items are: bleaches, leftover enamels, varnishes, stains, swimming pool chemicals, fire starting liquids or kerosene, pesticides, car batteries, used car tires (max 10), waxes and polishes, photographic chemicals, gasoline, wood preservatives. Radiological Medical Waste should NOT be disposed of with garbage. These items should be returned to the hospital or health care facility where you or your pet was treated for proper disposal. Propane tanks must be disposed of by the individual homeowner. and : (including homes and apartments on Fifth, and apartments on Wolfs and Lincoln Avenues). All commercial establishments have garbage pick-up on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (commercial establishments do not have bulk rubbish/trash pickup. Businesses must notify the police when they leave trash rubbish curbside for a private carter to collect.) If a holiday falls within the week, the pick-up days are shifted one day. For example: If a holiday falls on a Monday, the pick-ups for that week are Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. If a holiday falls on a Friday, the pick ups that week are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. A limit of 3 (30) gallon containers per pick-up applies to all establishments. and must be inside a container and placed curbside between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. (strictly enforced) on the days of collection. Nothing is to be left out after 11 a.m. establishments must follow the recycling separation guidelines. corrugated cardboard is collected from all merchants on Tuesdays and Thursday s. Co-mingled and paper recycling is collected on Thursday.