Garbage, Recycling, and Compost

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Learn what goes in each bin, how to sign up for garbage service, and how to look up your garbage company. Request assistance and order free recycling signs and labels. Find out how to get rid of stuff that doesn't fit in your bins and how to report trash in public areas.
Compost truck tipping green roll cart into collection area

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Recycling – what goes in the bin

Compost – what goes in the bin

Garbage – what goes in the bin

A green compost bin, black garbage bin, blue recycling bin, and yellow glass bin lined up on a residential street, with gardens and homes in the background.

Recycling at home

Three blue recycling rollcarts and a brown metal dumpster shown in a fenced-in apartment building waste area.

Recycling at apartments & multifamily

A woman in an office puts cardboard into a recycling bin. A restaurant staff member puts a bag of food scraps into a compost bin.

Recycling at businesses

Who picks up my garbage?

How to set up garbage service

Community cleanup resources

About garbage and recycling in Portland

Ask a garbage and recycling question

Contact

Garbage and Recycling Hotline

wasteinfo@portlandoregon.gov
phone number503-823-7202

Related offices, programs, advisory groups, and projects

View of downtown cross walk showing public trash cans on either side of the street. Trash cans are black with art on the side showing big foot on one and a hamburger on another.

Public Trash Cans

Woman and child looking inside an old decorative box at a resale shop

Resourceful PDX

Aerial view of grocery store shelves filled with prepackaged goods

Sustainable Consumption and Production

Deconstruction workers climbing on top of a roof sheathing

Deconstruction

Equity in Garbage, Recycling, and Compost

News

BPS celebrates expansion of public trash can program in North Portland

City leaders, waste haulers, program staff, artists and community members joined community members as they marked the success of a collaborative effort to reduce trash, beautify neighborhoods and build community.

News article

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Past Meetings and Hearings

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