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Salisbury Commissioners Look for Grass Collection Alternatives

Commissioners discuss using drop-off centers and ways to identify residents.

The Salisbury Township Board of Commissioners is looking for alternatives for residents to dispose of their grass clippings after the curbside pickup service ends June 30.

Township Manager Randy Soriano said it will be resolved before June 30. Pamphlets will be mailed out alerting residents  the curbside grass collection service will be discontinued.

“We’re not against picking up grass, we’re against [spending] $58,000,” Commissioner Joanne Ackerman said at the May 12 board meeting. Ackerman was referring to what the township had been paying Waste Management of Pennsylvania, Inc. per year to pick up residents' grass clippings.

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The commissioners discussed the possibility using a drop-off center.

Ackerman proposed that residents buy special bags for their grass clippings as a way to identify if the person dropping off grass clippings is a Salisbury resident. Other commissioners suggested residents could buy stickers and put them on the bags.

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 Soriano said those ideas may pose a challenge since the township would need to purchase the bags or the stickers and then find a place to sell them.

Commissioner Robert Martucci Jr. said he hopes to find a way to hire an employee for approximately $5,000 to work at a designated drop-off site.

Several residents at the meeting said they were also concerned about residents from other municipalities using the drop-off center, as well as drop-off times.

Salisbury resident Ed Tremba suggested the township pay Allentown to use the city's drop-off center.

Ackerman said she received a phone call from a resident complaining that some residents have been blowing grass clippings into the street instead of bagging them.

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