Rates for residential garbage, recycling, and compost collection effective July 1, 2025. Includes rates for all available garbage, recycling, and compost services, including on-call service, smallplexes (2-4 residential units), special requests, and Westside Terrain charges.

Restaurants and retail food establishments can use this template to create a Standard Operation Procedure document that meets health code for accepting customer-provided durable cups and food containers.

Learn how your business can switch from disposable to reusable cups, plates, and silverware.

Print this sign and post it where employees can see how to accept customer-provided cups and food containers.

Information about how retail food establishments can accept customer-provided reusable cups and containers while still meeting health codes.

Information about how restaurants can accept customer-provided reusable cups and containers while still meeting health codes.

Restaurants can post this sign to encourage customers to bring their own cups and food containers.

Restaurants can post this sign to encourage customers to bring their own cups and food containers.

Annual rate study to establish fair and equitable rates for franchised garbage and recycling companies to charge for collection of residential garbage, recycling, and compost in Portland.

This 11x17 poster shows how to sort your waste items into recycling, compost, and garbage. This guide is for homes in Portland with residential curbside waste collection, including duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes.

An application for Portland residents to request non-curbside pickup of garbage, recycling, and compost. This is for residents who are unable to bring garbage, recycling, and compost bins to the curb due to a permanent or temporary disability.

A visual guide showing how to sort waste items into recycling, compost, and garbage. Also includes information about garbage bin size options, collection schedules, and who to contact with questions.

This document provides guidelines for Planning for “Curbside” Garbage and Recycling Collection Access for New Development of Single-family through Four-plex lots (2002)

Residents that own a home or renters of a single-family home can use this guide to help them understand garbage, recycling, and composting collection in Portland. We have other guides for businesses and apartments.

(Spanish) Printable waste sorting guide for recycling, compost, and garbage at houses (including duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes) in Portland, Oregon.

Printable sign to label bottle and can recycling collection bin at events.