Millcreek, PA Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

Millcreek Township Code § 110-12J governs oversized material in the residential refuse program that the Board of Supervisors runs through one designated contractor. Subsection J(2) requires residential customers to cut, bend or otherwise reduce to a length not exceeding four feet fence boards, guttering, Christmas trees, shrubbery, limbs, branches and other materials before presenting them to the contractor as municipal waste.

Subsection J(3) separates ordinary household volume from bulk. The unlimited collection service method is not intended to cover large appliances and other items in a quantity not reasonably generated in the incidental and normal use of a residential premises. When a premises presents large items in greater than the volume a residential use produces, the contractor can charge a special service fee at its election. That fee cannot exceed the amount bid and accepted by the Township in the contract award, and it can be assessed only after prior notice to the customer.

Two related rules sit in the same chapter. Section 110-12G(1) requires the contractor to collect appliances containing freon, which cannot lawfully be disposed of in landfills, for a special assessment fee paid by the customer who requests the service. Under § 110-12G(2) the contractor hauls those appliances to an authorized recycling center for removal of freon and proper recycling. Section 110-11F adds one brush collection week each autumn. The Board of Supervisors sets the dates after discussion with the contractor, residents receive due notice, and brush is set out at curbside in tied Township-designated bags on the same day as the regular pickup. Brush is collected separately from municipal waste and recyclables and goes only to a licensed composting facility.

Construction debris follows a different track. Section 110-12G(3) lets the contractor or any other hauler agree privately with the owner on a fee for construction materials excluded from residential collection and for waste generated during construction or substantial renovation.