Editorial policy

How we research, write and correct what we publish

We publish guides about getting rid of things in Levittown and Lower Bucks County. Here’s who writes them, who checks them, and what we will never do to make one rank.

About the byline

Our articles are published under Sal, described on this site as the voice of the Longship crew.

Sal is an illustrated brand character, not a member of staff. He is a drawing. He is not a person you can meet, he holds no qualification, and nothing on this site should be read as a claim that he does.

What sits behind the byline is real: an owner-operated junk removal business that has been working in Lower Bucks County for 15+ years. The operational content — what a job costs, what fits in a truck, what the crew meets inside a Levittown house — comes from that experience. The character is how we present it. The experience is not his; it’s the business’s.

We use a character rather than a personal byline because the alternative — inventing a credentialed-sounding author with a headshot and a bio — would be a fabrication. This way the reader knows exactly what they’re reading.

Where the information comes from

Two sources, and we try to keep them visibly separate.

Operational experience. How a cleanout actually runs, what a load costs, what won’t fit down a Levittown stairwell. This is the business’s own 15+ years of work and we present it as exactly that — experience, not regulation.
Primary sources for anything official. Disposal rules, recycling law, what a township will take at the curb, hazardous-waste handling — these come from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Bucks County, and the municipality in question. Where a rule matters to a decision, we link the source so you can check it yourself rather than take our word for it.

How a piece gets published

An article is drafted against the specific question a customer actually asked us.
Every regulatory or municipal claim is checked against the primary source and dated, because these rules change.
Anything we can’t confirm gets cut. We would rather publish a shorter guide than a complete-looking one with a made-up detail in it.
The business owner reviews anything that describes how we work, what we charge, or what we will and won’t take.

Updates and corrections

Disposal rules change, county programs change, and prices move. We revisit published guides when we notice a rule has changed or a reader tells us it has.

If you find something on this site that’s wrong — a rule that’s out of date, a fee that’s moved, a claim that doesn’t hold up — tell us and we’ll fix it or take it down. We correct the page itself rather than quietly deleting it, so anyone who read the old version can see what changed.

What we will never do

These aren’t aspirations. They’re rules the site is built to enforce.

Invent a review or a testimonial. Anything in quotation marks on this site is word-for-word what a customer actually wrote — whether on a review platform or in a message to us — and we say which. We never write one, never edit one to read better, never pay for one, and never ask only the customers we expect to be happy.
Claim a licence, registration or insurance we don’t hold. You will not find the phrase “licensed and insured” anywhere on this site, because it would not be true. If that matters to your decision — and for some jobs it should — you’re entitled to weigh it.
Promise a donation receipt or name a charity partner. We keep usable items out of landfill where we can, but we don’t run a donation-receipt program and we have no charity partnership to point at. Saying otherwise would be a tax-relevant claim, and we’re not making one.
Present a character as a person. Illustrated crew characters are labelled as illustrations wherever they appear. No character is ever given a review, a certification, or a quote attributed to them as a real individual.
Write a page whose only purpose is to rank. We don’t publish a near-identical page for every street name and call it local content. One real guide beats forty thin ones, and it’s the only kind we’d want a neighbour to read.

Found something wrong?

Email office@levittownlongshipjunk.com or call (267) 609-9327 and tell us which page. Corrections don’t need to be polite to get made.

This policy applies to every article published on this site. Last reviewed: July 2026.