Weather Update: January 2026.
Due to weather conditions, Saturday twice-a-week refuse and recycling service will not occur the week of January 26-31, 2026.
Refuse collection for Monday is postponed. Residents with Monday service should place their carts at the curb, as haulers will resume trash collection on Tuesday. Please leave your gray cart at the curb until it can safely be serviced. Crews will continue working through service days as conditions allow. We appreciate your patience as crews work to restore normal collection schedules. For those who have backyard service, please make sure that the haulers can access your gate. They will make every effort to collect everything while keeping crews safe.
Recycling collection is suspended for the week of January 26-30. Due to the continued impact on collection routes, crews will focus on trash collection to help restore regular service levels and ensure crew safety. to allow crews to focus on trash collection to a planned outage for the recycling plant on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Please place any extra recycling in a recyclable container next to your recycling cart for collection next week.
If you have additional questions, please feel free to email Tulsa 311 and include your service address and a description of the issue.
Learn more about what Can and Can't Be Recycled in Your Blue Cart
Recycling is Easy When You "Focus on the Four"
Limit what you put in your blue cart to only four groups of items:
Contamination
It's good that more Tulsans are recycling, but the City has also seen an increase in items being put into the blue recycling carts that CANNOT be recycled through the City. This leads to a high "contamination rate" at the City's recycling processing center - and that costs the City and resident's money.
The contamination rate is now at 31.22 percent, and it needs to be at 15 percent or less. By lowering the contamination rate, the City will be able to save money on recycling processing fees and trash tipping fees, which in turn keeps trash rates down for residents.
Each City of Tulsa resident has the opportunity to recycle with a 96-gallon blue recycling cart which has been provided to residents. Recycling is NOT mandatory, but is included in all service plan rates.
More than 80 percent of your household waste is recyclable! The more you recycle the less trash you throw out. The less trash you throw out, the smaller the trash cart you need. The smaller the trash cart, the less you pay for monthly collection service.
When you recycling in your blue cart:
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