While the parnership recycling programs are good.. and support worthy causes.. with the expansion of increased recycling (materials accepted) and single-stream recycling throughout the city, they will probably wind up dying out and being phased out. There have already been problems with the program, bureaucratically. If you want to support these community groups, there are probably better ways to do so than dragging your recycling to them.

BTW, the working url is http://www.phila.gov/streets/recyling_partnership.html
doing so with the url as you posted doesn't get through.

After the beginning of the year, and Nutter and council working together, single stream will probably come to the fishtown/kensington/richmond, NL, and north philly communities soon enough.

Anyways, for a while the partnership recycling programs were the best places in the city to bring your #1 & #2 plastics, and your corregated cardboard. With the inclusion of these things in single stream recycling, and the recent expansion of single stream recycling to more areas, there are other improvements that can be made.

the city's current primary recycling site is http://recyclingpays.phila.gov/

Those being:

weekly recycling collection city-wide.

some people would support the adoption of recylingbank citywide (it would increase rates through incentives and SIGNIFICANTLY reduce or eliminate worker injury and wear and tear on their bodies.)

A drop-off center for non-1&2 plastics, and other unwanted but reusable or recyclable items in the city. (probably by a private nonprofit entity, not the city.. if you want to see this sort of thing happen, individuals need to get involved to make it happen.)