Thief steals containers full of recyclables
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, at least it is in Peters Township.
Peters Township police said an official from the township contacted the police station shortly before 10 a.m. July 30 to report six 65-gallon recycling containers were missing from the Stonehenge subdivision in McMurray. What makes these thefts different is that the bins were full of garbage and the containers were on three different streets. Two of the missing containers came from homes on Lintel Drive; two on Lampliter Drive, and one each came from Candlelite Drive and Candelite Circle. The containers are valued at $50 each.
Captain Michael Yanchak of the Peters police said they are investigating the thefts. He said a Stonehenge resident said she thought she heard noise from a big truck in the early morning hours of July 30.
Approximately 7,500 township residents, whose trash and recycling are picked up weekly, received the hinged, wheeled blue and gray containers – which have the Peters Township logo on the side – in April as part of a township plan to streamline its recycling efforts. The new bins are nearly triple in size of the old 22-gallon containers that the township had used and will help it reach the state recycling goal of 35 percent.
A township official said the containers are the property of the township and will be replaced at no cost to the residents.