Welcome to the official website of the Borough of Shillington, Berks County, Pennsylvania. We hope you find the website to be a useful communication tool to keep you informed about what’s happening in the Borough. Please bookmark this site and visit it regularly to see what new information has been added.
Borough of Shillington
ONLINE UTILITY BILL PAYMENT
Pay your utility bills (water, sewer, refuse) to the Borough of Shillington through PAYMENTUS online portal using the links below
- Customer portal to manage or schedule utility bill payments
to the Borough - One time utility payment link for customers
Additionally, you can call the toll free number at 1-888-977-8724 to make a payment on your utility bill.
NEW OPTION FOR UTILITY BILL – If you wish to receive your utility bill by email instead of the U.S. Postal Service, click on the link below for an email request form. Email the completed form to info@shillingtonboro.net. If you have multiple accounts, please complete one (1) form for each account.
- Click here for email request form
CODE RED
The Borough of Shillington has instituted a rapid emergency notification service called CodeRED. By registering, you will be added to the emergency call list. Borough of Shillington residents and any water consumers are welcome and encouraged to create an account and enter their contact information for home, business and mobile phones so they may be contacted by the system in the event of an emergency. Those who do not register their address and phone number may not be notified with CodeRED in the case of an emergency. Registration is confidential, free, easy and will be for emergency notification only. To enroll by mobile phone, you may text the word “shillington” to 99411.
- Click here to register your contact information
- Click here if you have moved from the area and wish to opt out of notifications
TRASH/RECYCLING UPDATE 2025
TRASH AND RECYCLING UPDATE FOR 2025
As you may know, the residents of the Borough of Shillington receive trash and recycling collection services as part of a Borough contract that is placed out for bid. The current contracts with A.J. Blosenski, Inc. and J.P. Mascaro, Inc. will expire December 31, 2024 resulting in the Borough putting out a new bid for service in August of this year. After unforseen delays, the refuse and recycling contracts were recently awarded. A.J. Blosenski, Inc. will continue to be the Borough’s trash hauler and Hollenbaugh’s Trash & Recycling, LLC will be the new recycling hauler. The contract awarded to these two companies will begin on January 2, 2025. The yearly cost for these services will be $313.00.
Recent trash and recycling contracts awarded in nearby municipalities have shown an increase over current contracts of 30% to 40%. The increase in rates is due to a number of factors impacting trash/recycling haulers including increases to the cost of labor, fuel, vehicles, insurance and disposal of waste/recycling.
The Borough has worked diligently to revise the bid specifications with the assistance of the Berks County Solid Waste Authority Director. The Borough has updated the specifications in an attempt to offset some expected increases.
In an effort to control costs, Borough Council has awarded the refuse contract for once a week collection of refuse including one bulk item per collection week. Making this change, has reduced the cost to each residential unit by $41.00 for the year.
Under the new contracts, refuse collection will be on Thursday of each week for the entire Borough. If the collection day falls on a holiday or if severe weather prevents the collection, the collection day will be moved to the following day (Friday). Recycling collection will now be on Tuesday beginning with the south side of the Borough on January 7, 2025 and continue every other week. The north side will begin on Tuesday, January 14, 2025 and will also continue every other week.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
TRASH:
•Six containers or five containers and one bulk item per collection
•Containers may be placed out for collection twenty-four hours ahead of collection and must be removed within twenty-four hours following collection.
•Construction materials or demolition debris cannot be placed out for regular or bulk collection.
•Do not place trash in a cardboard box. Cardboard boxes not contaminated by food products must be recycled.
•Mattresses must be wrapped in plastic or a mattress bag
•Trash collection does not include the disposal of household hazardous waste (marked as caustic, combustible, flammable, hazardous, toxic, etc.) Appliances such as refrigerators, air conditioners and dehumidifiers containing Freon will not be collected.
•Latex Paint: Please let the paint dry in the can. You can use kitty litter or a commercial drying agent to speed up the drying process.
•Electronic Waste: Please do NOT put any of the following out for pickup with trash. We do not take televisions and computer devices. This includes monitors, keyboards, computer mouses and printers.
•Bulk Items: One bulk item per week will be picked up on your regular collection day.
•Bulk items consist of large household items such as sofas or chairs (no electronics.)
•Carpets must be cut in three-foot strips rolled and tied up.
•Mattress and box springs count as separate items, so only one of these may be placed out per collection. These items must be bagged or wrapped in plastic.
•Bulk collection does not include construction material debris, any item containing Freon, tires, or any item containing hazardous waste or organic waste materials(branches, grass, etc. are to be dropped off by residents with access cards at the Borough’s Organic Yard Waste Facility in the Park.
REQUEST A TREE FROM THE BOROUGH
Shillington Residents: The Shillington Tree Advisory Committee is taking requests for curb line trees to be planted in the spring of 2025. Residents of the Borough of Shillington can contact the Committee through the information listed.
Contact the Shillington Tree Advisory at 484-265-1749 or shillingtontrees@gmail.com.
AFTER HOURS WATER OR SEWER PROBLEM
If you experience a water or sewer problem when the Town Hall is closed, please call the Berks County Radio System at 610-655-4911 and give the information on your problem. A Shillington Police Officer or a representative from the Borough will be in touch with you.
RECYCLING INFORMATION
Click here to download the Borough Recycling Flyer.