Oklahoma trash pickup is run by cities, counties and private haulers, not by the state, and your pickup day comes from your city’s or hauler’s own lookup. Among the largest cities, Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Norman collect curbside themselves. Oklahoma has an electronics recycling law, but no statewide bottle deposit, PaintCare paint or mattress program.
Find your city
The largest Oklahoma cities and their official collection pages:
- Oklahoma City: City of Oklahoma City Utilities Department, Solid Waste Management. Curbside trash, recycling and bulky waste serve more than 220,000 single-family households, and the monthly service includes two Big Blue trash carts and one Big Green recycling cart. Official page ↗ Look up your collection day ↗
- Tulsa: City of Tulsa Public Works Department, Refuse and Recycling. Your weekly collection day is set by your neighbourhood, and twice-a-week collection service will no longer be offered beginning Oct. 1, 2026. Official page ↗ Look up your collection day ↗
- Norman: City of Norman Utilities Department, Sanitation Division. Recycling is collected every other week on the same day as your trash collection day, on either an A or a B route. Official page ↗ Look up your collection day ↗
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Who collects in Oklahoma
- Oklahoma DEQ says burning household waste is generally prohibited unless no trash collection and disposal service is reasonably available, and that most rural areas of Oklahoma now have service. Source ↗
- DEQ says all solid waste must generally be disposed of at a facility it has permitted, and it publishes the list of currently permitted disposal facilities. Source ↗
National haulers (Republic Services, WM, Waste Connections) hold contracts in many places; the city or county names the hauler for each street.
State-level rules
- Container deposit: No statewide container deposit law. NCSL’s state beverage container deposit laws page reports that only ten states and Guam have a deposit-refund system for beverage containers, and Oklahoma is not one of them. Source ↗
- Paint: Not a PaintCare state. PaintCare’s own site names the states where paint stewardship laws have created its programs, and Oklahoma is not among them. Leftover paint goes through the local household hazardous waste program; see paint. Source ↗
- Mattresses: No statewide mattress take-back program. The Mattress Recycling Council says its Bye Bye Mattress program runs only in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island. See mattresses. Source ↗
- Electronics: The Oklahoma Computer Equipment Recovery Act (27A O.S. section 2-11-601 et seq.) requires manufacturers to offer a take-back program for consumers’ desktop and notebook computers and computer monitors, usually by mail-back; televisions are not covered devices. Source ↗
State agency
- State agency: Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, Land Protection Division. It permits and inspects solid waste disposal facilities and maintains the state’s recycling lists, including a community recycling list and the electronics, mercury and used tire recycling programs. Official website ↗
- Find your local program: DEQ recycling lists, including the Community Recycling List ↗
- Contact: 405-702-5118
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Materials with their own rules
Paint · Lithium-ion batteries · Household hazardous waste · Mattresses · Pizza boxes · Christmas trees
Neighboring states
Arkansas · Colorado · Kansas · Missouri · New Mexico · Texas
Sources
Official pages used: oklahoma.gov · okc.gov · okc.gov · cityoftulsa.org · cityoftulsa.org · normanok.gov · normanok.gov · ncsl.org · paintcare.org · mattressrecyclingcouncil.org · oklahoma.gov · deq.ok.gov.
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