Several South Philly civic groups will meeting on Thursday, June 6 at 6:30 pm at the EPX Center (1729 S. 11th St. on Neumann-Goretti High School campus) to address the issue of litter. This invitation is open to anyone from any part of the city who would like to join us in thinking of new and creative ways of dealing with litter. All ideas and suggestions are welcome. We will also have a member of the Streets department joining us.
e-Waste Recycling Event on May 11 – “anything with a plug”
Empty your closets, basements, and storage spaces of all your old and broken electronic devices and bring them over to the ACME parking lot at 10th and Reed Streets on Saturday, May 11 from 10am-2pm. We have partnered with eForce Compliance, Philadelphia’s only R2 certified e-waste recycler, to give you another opportunity to responsibly recycle obsolete electronics. All you have to do is drop off your e-waste items and eForce Compliance will do the rest!
Residents are encouraged to bring “anything with a plug.” All household electronics including computers, printers, microwaves, air-conditioners, metals and small appliances will be accepted. Please visit www.eforcecompliance.com for more information on accepted items. (NO SMOKE DETECTORS OR LARGE APPLIANCES will be accepted)
This is a super convenient way to dispose of your old and broken electronics that can no longer be left out on the curb for trash pickup. Thats right, the Covered Device Recycling Act now makes it illegal to dispose many electronic devices in state landfills. This includes desktop and laptop computers, monitors, peripherals such as printers, keyboards and mouses, tablets like iPads and Kindles, and televisions with viewable screens larger than four inches.
If you miss our event, eWaste must be taken to a city sanitation center and cannot be left at the curb. For locations visit http://www.philadelphiastreets.com/san-convenience-centers.aspx
By attending our event, not only are you clearing the clutter out of your storage spaces, you are taking part in an effort to spread awareness and help protect our environment. Please contact trash@passyunk.org with any questions.
Calling all volunteers! Come out and participate in the 6th Annual Philly Spring Cleanup on Saturday April 13 from 9-2.
PSCA plans to clean the 9th street corridor from Reed to Ellsworth, and the surrounding areas off of 9th street (Wharton, Reed, and Federal, etc.) Our objective is to sweep and remove litter on the sidewalks and curbs, cleanup the open lot on Wharton Street as well as clean out gutters in the area. We will be distributing recycling bins and signing people up for recycle rewards. We will also hand out circular free stickers to help keep flyers off our streets.
To sign up to volunteer with the PSCA, use this direct link to our registered project http://www.philadelphiastreets.com/Project_Register.aspx?code=20Q8D15N52
Come out and show your support for our wonderful neighborhood.
Our New Street Cleaning Contract
We are pleased to announce that we have contracted with ABM to provide street cleaning services to the remaining sections of our neighborhood that aren’t currently covered by the Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation’s (PARC) street cleaning. The contract went into effect 11/2/2012 so we are celebrating our one month anniversary! Gone are the days of the city cleaning our streets. PARC pays to clean the Avenue and surrounding areas and now thanks to our fundraising efforts and your generous contributions, we are able to pay to have the remainder of the streets in our neighborhood cleaned. We, as residents, must also do our part to help keep our neighborhood clean!
Details of the contract:
If you see workers out on your streets, please be sure to say hello!
Tree-cycling Event on January 5th
Don’t leave your tree for curbside collection, have it recycled instead! Trees left at the curb will be treated as trash, which means they will not be recycled. On Saturday, January 5th from 10am to 4pm, you can bring your tree to Columbus Square Park (corner of 13th and Reed Streets) and have it turned into wood chips and mulch that will be used in local parks and gardens. Unfortunately, we can’t take early drop-offs so make your plans now to be there between 10am and 4pm. A $5 donation is suggested to cover the costs of the tree chipping. Please be sure to remove all decorations (they don’t make good mulch).
We’re looking for a few good volunteers to help out with this event. Email trash@passyunk.org if you’re interested in lending a hand.
e-Waste Recycling Event on November 17th
Empty your closets, basements, and storage spaces of all your old and broken electronic devices and bring them over to the ACME parking lot at 10th and Reed Streets on Saturday, November 17 from 10am-2pm. We have partnered with eForce Compliance, Philadelphia’s only R2 certified e-waste recycler, to give you another opportunity to responsibly recycle obsolete electronics. All you have to do is drop off your e-waste items and eForce Compliance will do the rest!
Residents are encouraged to bring “anything with a plug.” All household electronics including computers, printers, microwaves, air-conditioners, metals and small appliances will be accepted. Please visit www.eforcecompliance.com for more information on accepted items. (NO SMOKE DETECTORS OR LARGE APPLIANCES will be accepted)
By attending our event, not only are you clearing the clutter out of your storage spaces, you are taking part in an effort to spread awareness and help protect our environment. Please contact trash@passyunk.org with any questions.
Saturday, October 27 from 10am-2pm
Mark your calendars for our Fall Clean Up Day! The focus will be 6th, 7th and 8th Streets from Ellsworth to Tasker Street. Bring your brooms and dust pans along with your friends and neighbors as we sweep our way through the streets. A limited number of additional brooms and dust pans are available as well as bags to be filled!
If you live on or near 6th, 7th or 8th street and you would like to help lead the effort that day or should you have any questions please contact PSCA Trash and Recycling Leader Carmela Fioretti: trash@passyunk.org
Let’s all work together to keep Passyunk Square clean and green.
The South Philly Trash Think Tank was formed in spring of 2012 as a group of residents committed to addressing the problem of litter in new and creative ways. For the first project, members reached out to businesses offering takeout & items consumed off-premises to advise of a City regulation requiring them to provide a trash can outside of their store. The City will be stepping up enforcement of this regulation soon for those that do not comply.
We finished our outreach in August; visiting 42 businesses of which 16 were already in compliance. Having almost 40% is a good starting number and are hoping all the remaining business we met with will add a trash can soon.
We would like to thank all businesses that were already doing a great job in keeping their area clean:
Dunkin Donuts 1401 S. 10th St; (215) 463-7675
Iannelli Bakery 1155 E. Passyunk Ave; (215) 468-0720
CVS 1405 S. 10th St; (215) 465-2130
Rite Aid 1443 S 7th St; (215) 436-7748
Acme Markets 1400 E. Passyunk Ave; (215) 467-2221
Oaxaca Grocery & Deli 701 Federal St; (215)755-2223
Richetti’s South Philly Cold Cuts 701 Wharton St; (215) 468-9676
Pat’s King of Steaks 1237 E. Passyunk Ave; (215) 468-1546
Geno’s 1219 S. 9th St; (215) 389-0659
J&J Pizza 1177 S. 9th St; (215) 551-1233
Los Taquitos de Puebla 1149 S 9 St; (215) 334-0664
Atlantic Pizza 1401 S. 12th St; (215) 755-6115
Chickie’s Italian Deli 1014 Federal St; (215) 462-8040
Franco & Luigi’s High Note Café 1547 S. 13 St; (215) 755-8900
Bitar’s 947 Federal St; (215) 755-1121
Ippolito’s Seafood 1300 Dickinson St; (215) 389-8906
We would also like to recognize the attached businesses that have responded to our Trash Think Tank group’s request to place a trash can outside of their business. We appreciate their support and help to reduce the amount of trash on the streets of our neighborhood. Great Job!
Tienda el Paisano 1345 E Passyunk Ave; (215) 467-1751
Passyunk Market 1407 E. Passyunk Ave; (215) 465-2452
Lucky Star 13th Federal St; (215) 551-5066
El Jarocho 1138 S. 13th St; (215) 463-2020
Next time you are in any of the above businesses let them know their effort and support of our neighborhood is truly appreciated.
One of PSCA’s ongoing goals is to reduce the amount of litter in our neighborhood. We are calling one of our latest initatives the Trash Think Tank. This is a collaborative effort with the other South Philly civic associations (LoMo, Newbold, and EPX) to contact our local businesses that offer food or beverage take-out to advise them of a code requirement to provide a trash receptacle outside of their premises during business hours – separate from the big belly or city trash cans. The Streets Enforcement Department is planning to fine businesses that are not complying with this code. If a business is found to be in non-compliance, there is a first-time fee of up to $90 plus court fees.
In order to educate business owners on the requirement, we have been visiting businesses with take-out service to educate them on the code so that they can avoid fines. In addition, we are working with our local businesses to show them that a cleaner store front equals more customers. Merchants that do a good job will be recognized by our civic association and will receive free advertising.
Over the next month we will publish a list of take-out businesses that have had or recently added a trash can so you can personally thank them on your next visit. We want to let our local businesses know we appreciate their part in keeping our neighborhood clean!