City of Tulsa Holiday Recycling Tips & Christmas Tree Disposal (1)

12/20/2023

Many gift packaging materials, including cardboard boxes and wrapping paper without foil, glitter, or plastic are recyclable in the City's blue recycling carts. Paper gift bags can be recycled after removing ribbons, string, rope or plastic handles. Please recycle these paper materials along with aluminum and steel cans, plastic bottles and containers with a screw-on cap or snap-on lid, as well as glass bottles and jars.  

Below is a list of items that cannot be recycled in the blue recycling cart and should be placed in the gray trash cart. For questions on what can be recycled, remember, when in doubt, check it out or throw it out - to learn more, visit www.TulsaRecycles.com 

Do NOT place items below in the blue recycling cart: 

• Foil, plastic, shiny or glitter wrapping paper 
• Styrofoam and bubble wrap 
• Plastic bags, flexible film plastics, and tarps 
• Plastic strapping 
• Ribbons or bows 
• Tinsel or ornaments 
• Christmas lights, cords, wires 
• Tree skirts or stockings 
• Blankets or clothing 
• Ceramics 
• Food-soiled containers 
• Electronics, batteries 
• Artificial or live Christmas trees 

Christmas Tree Disposal: In December and January, residents may put live trees at the curb on their primary collection day. Trees need to be cut into 4-foot sections to fit into the hopper of the refuse trucks. Artificial trees need to be put in the gray trash cart.   

Tulsa residents also may bring their live Christmas trees to be ground into mulch at the City's Mulch Site, 2100 N. 145th East Ave. Trees brought to the site must have all decorations removed.