Thief steals containers full of recyclables
McMURRAY – One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, at least in Peters Township.
Peters Township police said a township official contacted the police station shortly before 10 a.m. Thursday to report six 65-gallon recycling containers missing from the Stonehenge subdivision in McMurray. What makes these thefts a bit unusual is that the bins were full of recyclables 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.
Police Capt. Michael Yanchak said a Stonehenge resident said she thought she heard noise from a big truck in the early morning Thursday.
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 the township used and will help the township 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.