The Perkasie Borough collection program is more than just weekly trash collection; it’s a vital community service designed to make life easier, cleaner, and more cost-effective for residents. Your Borough Public Works Department provides consistent curbside collection of trash, comingled and paper recyclables, bulky waste, yard waste, branches and leaves, ensuring that the community stays clean, safe and environmentally friendly.
The Borough’s collection vehicles, maintenance of equipment, crew wages, disposal fees, hauling charges, rental fees and fuel are all paid for out of the Borough’s Refuse Fund. The Refuse Fund also transfers money to the Borough’s Capital Fund to cover the cost of large purchases, like leaf vacuums and trash trucks. All these costs are offset by revenue from the annual fee, quarterly toter fee, pay-as-you-throw trash bag fee, and small rebates from the State for recycling.
The Borough uses a competitive bidding process to receive pricing for disposal services for each of those materials to ensure they are disposed of properly for a fair price. As trash and recycling markets have evolved, and the cost of disposal services has increased, it has become necessary to adjust our fees and the guidelines for the collection bulky items to allow your Public Works Department to continue the level of service and reliability that our residents have come to enjoy.
Rates are changing in 2025:
- In order to continue providing the Pay-As-You-Throw bag program, the cost of bags will be increasing by $1.00 per bag. The bag cost is intended to cover the cost of all of the fees associated with collecting and disposing of it.
- Toter customers will see an increase of $5 per quarter, bringing the quarterly fee to $87.50.
The Borough’s Public Works Department is proud to serve the committee with these services, while also being responsible for winter salting and snow removal, maintenance of roads & stormwater facilities, and maintenance of one of the largest municipal park systems in Bucks County.
