Huntingdon Borough Curbside Recycling
Pennsylvania mandates that municipalities with a population over 5,000 must provide curbside recycling to their residents. Huntingdon County has one mandatory curbside recycling program and ten voluntary programs. Huntingdon Borough is the only municipality in Huntingdon County that meets this criteria.
There are over 866 curbside programs in Pennsylvania, second only to New York State with 1,472. Participation rate by residents in the curbside programs is high because the recyclables are collected at the curb rather than the consumer driving the materials to a drop-off facility. Curbside recycling produces a very clean marketable product, because it avoids contamination with non-recyclable materials by using trained collection staff.