WINTER STORM SERVICE UPDATES - FEBRUARY 2025
For the safety of trash crews, trash service has been suspended through Thursday due to extreme temperatures and neighborhood street conditions.
Monday & Tuesday Trash Customers - Haulers will work to service your trash carts on Friday
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday Trash Customers - Haulers will work to service your trash carts on Saturday,
The bottom line: If your trash hasn’t been serviced this week, please leave your trash cart at the curb and crews will resume collection as soon as conditions allow.
If any trash cannot be picked up by Saturday, customers will be allowed to set out a reasonable amount of extra, bagged trash (similar to how much would normally fit in a trash bin), next to their gray trash cart on their regular service day next week. This extra trash DOES NOT need to be stickered.
The same can be said of recycling, which was canceled this week and will be picked up on your regular service day next week. Extra recyclables can be placed in a recyclable container (i.e. cardboard box) and set next to your blue recycling bin on your regular service day next week.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have extra trash and recyclables, please DO NOT intermingle them both into one pile, as doing so could result in your recycling not being picked up.
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Learn more about what Can and Can't Be Recycled in Your Blue Cart
Recycling is Easy When You "Focus on the Four"
Limit what you put in your blue cart to only four groups of items:
Contamination
It's good that more Tulsans are recycling, but the City has also seen an increase in items being put into the blue recycling carts that CANNOT be recycled through the City. This leads to a high "contamination rate" at the City's recycling processing center - and that costs the City and resident's money.
The contamination rate is now at 31.22 percent, and it needs to be at 15 percent or less. By lowering the contamination rate, the City will be able to save money on recycling processing fees and trash tipping fees, which in turn keeps trash rates down for residents.
Each City of Tulsa resident has the opportunity to recycle with a 96-gallon blue recycling cart which has been provided to residents. Recycling is NOT mandatory, but is included in all service plan rates.
More than 80 percent of your household waste is recyclable! The more you recycle the less trash you throw out. The less trash you throw out, the smaller the trash cart you need. The smaller the trash cart, the less you pay for monthly collection service.
When you recycling in your blue cart:
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