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Upper Darby’s entire sanitation department is being quarantined for two weeks. Here’s where you can drop off trash in the meantime.

A trash pickup “contigency plan” is to be unveiled Monday. But if your garbage is piling up in the meantime, here's a couple places you may be able to dump it.

A City of Philadelphia Sanitation worker tosses trash into a trash truck along the 1700 block of Diamond Street near the Temple University campus on August 3.
A City of Philadelphia Sanitation worker tosses trash into a trash truck along the 1700 block of Diamond Street near the Temple University campus on August 3.Read moreYONG KIM / Staff Photographer
    by Erin McCarthy
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Upper Darby announced Thursday that it would be quarantining its entire sanitation department for two weeks due to a coronavirus outbreaks. For residents, that will mean a trash pickup “contingency plan” to be unveiled Monday, Mayor Barbarann Keffer said in a statement.

» READ MORE: Coronavirus has Philly falling way behind on trash pickup — but it’s not the only city

Delaware County doesn’t have public trash drops offs, but Philadelphia does. If your garbage is piling up in the meantime and you’re worried about when it’ll be collected next, here are a few places in Philadelphia, where you may be able to drop it off yourself:

  1. Port Richmond: 3901 Delaware Ave.

  2. West Philly: 5100 Grays Ave

» READ MORE: Trash is piling up, but people aren’t blaming Philly sanitation workers

  1. Strawberry Mansion: 2601 W. Glenwood Ave.

  2. Southwest Philly: 3033 S. 63rd St., near Passyunk Avenue

  3. Northwest Philly: 300 block Domino Lane, near Umbria Street

  4. Northeast Philly: State Road & Ashburner Street