York County Dump (Pennsylvania) — Resource Recovery Center Small Load Drop-Off
York County's public dump is the Small Load Drop-Off at the York County Resource Recovery Center, 2651 Blackbridge Road, run by the York County Solid Waste Authority. It's open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon.
Residents pay $85 a ton with a $20 minimum for loads up to 470 pounds, so half a ton costs $42.50. Cash, checks and cards are all accepted. Trash is burned to make electricity.
Disposal sites in York County
York County Resource Recovery Center Small Load Drop-Off
Check in at the scale house first. Takes furniture, mattresses, appliances (Freon removed), scrap metal, yard waste, electronics and small amounts of construction material.
From YCSWA's household waste page. Tires must be off the rim, no more than 32 inches across and 12 inches wide, with a limit of 10; larger tires go to a tire recycler for a fee.
The small-load area takes furniture, mattresses and big piles of household trash; metal items like bed frames (sent for scrap); refrigerators, air conditioners and dehumidifiers (Freon removed before recycling); TVs, computers and printers; and yard waste such as leaves, shrubs, stumps up to 24 inches and trimmings up to 6 feet. Grass clippings and weeds aren't taken as yard waste. Construction material is limited per visit: two 42-gallon contractor bags of drywall, plaster, tile or insulation, lumber up to 6 feet, and one pickup or small trailer of shingles.
YCSWA holds two free household hazardous waste collections a year (spring and fall, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., registration required, York County residents only) behind the Recycling Drop-Off Center.
Pennsylvania law keeps car batteries out of the trash (return them to a store that sells them, a wholesaler or a recycler), bans whole tires from landfills, and bans TVs, computers and monitors from the trash under the Covered Device Recycling Act. Landfills can't take truckloads of leaves, and every landfill and transfer station has to run a recycling drop-off.
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