S. Whitehall Gets $250K DEP Grant for Trash and Recycling Toters

South Whitehall Township received a $250,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to reimburse it for the cost of trash and recycling toters the township bought five years ago when it entered into a contract with hauler J.P. Mascaro.

The township's trash and recycling fees have increased every year of its contract with J.P. Mascaro, which ends this December, but those higher fees were not passed on to residents until this year when they rose 20 percent. 

Commissioner David Bond said the increase was necessary because the refuse and recycling fund was running a deficit and grant funding had been reduced. He said the newly awarded grant money will be used either for a rate reduction or to reimburse the general fund, which paid for the toters.