North Philly, start gathering your #2 plastic containers. Making the announcement just in time for Earth Day, the Streets Department will be expanding single-stream residential recycling to North and Lower North Philadelphia neighborhoods beginning May 5th.
The expansion brings the program, which Mayor Nutter promised to deliver city-wide, to over 150,000 homes in East Oak Lane, Olney, Logan, Kensington, Frankford and Northern Liberties. Making recycling convenient for the aforementioned, flattened cardboard, #1 and #2 plastics, newspapers and more can be discarded in the same blue box, ready for collection.
Additional information is provided by the Streets Department’s recycling hotline, 215.685.7329.
