Oregon 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, Portland collects curbside itself; in Eugene and Salem residents hire their own hauler. Oregon has a bottle deposit, a PaintCare paint drop-off program, a mattress recycling program and an electronics recycling law.
Find your city
- Portland — BPS assigns a permitted hauler to houses and smallplexes. Garbage every other week; recycling and compost weekly.
Other large cities and their official collection pages:
- Eugene: no city collection: residents contract private haulers licensed by the City of Eugene. Basic residential collection service includes refuse, recycling and, in most cases, every-other-week food waste and yard debris collection. Official page ↗
- Salem: no city collection: residents contract private haulers, six of which hold City of Salem franchises for exclusive service areas. The City regulates garbage, recycling and mixed organics collection inside the city limits, and six franchised haulers each serve one exclusive service area. Official page ↗
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Who collects in Oregon
- Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability — municipal program that assigns the hauler
- Recology, WM, Republic Services, Waste Connections — brands that hold permits in some Oregon service areas. The city lookup names the assigned company.
- Cities of 4,000 or more people are required to provide recycling programs under Oregon’s recycling laws, and elsewhere recycling is usually handled by the county through contracts or franchises with collection companies. Source ↗
- It is illegal to dispose of vehicles, large home or industrial appliances, used oil, tires, lead-acid batteries, and computers, monitors and televisions at an Oregon solid waste disposal site, though a site may accept them for recycling. Source ↗
- In the greater Portland area of Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties, DEQ points residents to RecycleOrNot.org or the Metro Recycling Information hotline at 503-234-3000. Source ↗
State-level rules
- Container deposit: Oregon has a bottle deposit law. People pay a 10-cent deposit on redeemable beverage containers and get the 10-cent refund value back for each container returned to a store or redemption center. Source ↗
- Paint: Oregon is on the PaintCare roster. PaintCare runs drop-off sites throughout Oregon that take leftover house paint, primers, stains and clear coatings at no charge, funded by a fee on new paint and overseen by DEQ. See paint. Source ↗
- Mattresses: Oregon has a mattress stewardship program. The Mattress Recycling Council runs Oregon’s mattress stewardship program, with collection that began January 1, 2025 and a $22.50 assessment charged on each mattress or box spring sold. See mattresses. Source ↗
- Electronics: All computers, monitors and TVs have been banned from disposal in Oregon since January 1, 2010, and Oregon’s Electronics Recycling Law requires manufacturers to provide free recycling through the Oregon E-Cycles program. Source ↗
- Yard waste: No statewide landfill ban. DEQ’s landfill ban list covers vehicles, large home or industrial appliances, used oil, tires, lead-acid batteries and computers, monitors and televisions; yard debris is not on it. Source ↗
- The Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act, Senate Bill 582 of the 2021 session, became effective January 1, 2022, and its recycling program changes started in July 2025. Source ↗
- Under the new statewide accepted list that started July 1, 2025, empty pizza delivery boxes with minimal grease and plastic screw-on caps left on plastic bottles and jugs are accepted in Portland recycling, while shredded paper is no longer accepted. Source ↗
State agency
- State agency: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Materials Management Program. DEQ writes Oregon’s recycling and solid waste rules, permits disposal and recycling facilities, runs the state’s product stewardship programs, and publishes the county and city recycling contacts residents should call. Official website ↗
- Find your local program: Local recycling contacts by county and city ↗
- Contact: 503-229-5696
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Materials with their own rules
Paint · Lithium-ion batteries · Household hazardous waste · Mattresses · Pizza boxes · Christmas trees
Mattress disposal in Oregon: the state’s Bye Bye Mattress rules, fee and drop-off sites.
Neighboring states
California · Idaho · Nevada · Washington
Sources
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