HandUp Recycling

Located in the old Warshow Building

at 275 Mahoning St

in Milton, PA

Drop-Off Hours 8-4pm  M-F

AND Saturday 8-noon

Phone:  570.742.3600

HAND UP has changed to a self-service drop off location.  You are now responsible for depositing what you bring in the appropriate bins.  Therefore, for your own benefit, it helps to separate chipboard, newsprint, corrugated, office paper and magazines in advance.

Now Accepts

Plastic Bottles (#1 and #2 only)
Cardboard (corrugated, whether it has glossy paper on it or not, and chipboard or pasteboard, as in cereal boxes and most other packaging)
Tin/Aluminum Cans
Books
Newspapers
Magazines
Paper (of pretty much any kind, including junk mail, envelopes, etc -- all the things that Union County won't accept with the magazines)
Household Appliances (washers, dryers, stoves, fridges, water heaters, a/cs, etc.)
Clothes and Shoes
Rags
Car Batteries
Cell Phones
Junk Cars
Any Scrap Metal (shelves, desks, farm scrap, metal pipe, filing cabinets, aluminum siding, cooking grills, lawn mowers, etc.)
Steel aerosol cans

Unfortunately HandUp can no longer accept Electronics (computers, tvs, etc).  Contact Unicor at the Federal Penitentiary or your county recycling coordinator for info about drop off days.

Note: Chipboard may soon also be accepted at Union County recycling sites as Lycoming Landfill is starting to handle it as well.  Stay tuned for updates.  Also, HandUp hopes eventually to recycle mattresses, but for now the equipment required is prohibitive.

Donated your junk to a local non-profit!  Your donated items will be completely recycled, benefiting the environment and teaching job seekers valuable work skills.  Usable items may go to the needy; unusable will be dismantled and distributed to appropriate industrial networks.

HandUp Recycling is a Christian, non-profit organization that seeks to provide a needed community recycling service while offering employment training for CareerLink workers.

Also called Hand Up and HandsUp and Hands Up and Hand-Up and Hands-Up Recycling -- for all you frustrated web searchers out there.