Recycle+

What areas offer Recycle+ collection?

Recycle+ is available to single family homes through fourplex homes in the cities listed below. Is Recycle+ Available? Enter your address and see if Recycle+ is available where you live. Recycle+ is available to single family homes and apartments in Urban unincorporated Washington County.

Get started!

Recycle+ optional service is available from your garbage and recycling company. You will pay a monthly base fee and a curbside pickup fee per collection. However, you can ask your garbage company for service at another location on your property.

1. Contact your garbage and recycling company to sign up.
2. Sort and bag material by type. You will receive a purple bin and bags prior to your first collection day.
3. Schedule a pickup. Contact your garbage and recycling company at least two business days before your collection day.
4. Set your bin. Have your bin out by 6 a.m. your collection day. All bagged materials must fit inside the bin, with the lid on.
5. Sign up for reminders. Use the Garbage and Recycling Day online tool or use the app to view your schedule and set up your reminders for Recycle+ special collection.

Tip: You can share service and split the cost of pickups with family, friends or neighbors.

How to find your garbage and recycling company?

Use the Garbage and Recycling Day online tool or app to find your garbage and recycling company.

• Evergreen Disposal & Recycling Inc.: 503-357-3510
• Garbarino Disposal and Recycling Service: Sign up or request a pickup online or call 503-647-2335
• Hillsboro Garbage Disposal, Inc.: 503-648-4219
• Pride Disposal: Sign up or schedule a pickup online with Pride Disposal or call 503-625-6177
• Republic Services: 503-981-1278
• Swatco Sanitary Service, Inc: 503-324-0230
• Walker Garbage and Recycling Service: 503-531-6330
• WM: Sign up or schedule a pickup online with WM Northwest or call 800-808-5901

Accepted materials

Stretchy plastic film/bags

• Plastic bags
• Produce bags
• Dry cleaning bags
• Plastic padded envelopes (no padded manila envelopes)
• Plastic overwrap for paper towels, paper plates, napkins, etc.

Clear plastic #1 clamshell containers

• Egg cartons
• Fruit containers
• Bakery containers
• Take-out containers

Textiles

• Bed linens
• Clothing
• Towels/rags

Compact fluorescent light bulbs

• Long fluorescent tubes used in commercial lighting are not accepted.
• Bulbs must be contained in a zip-sealed bag.

Visit What to Recycle and Where to find free drop-off locations near you as well as tips to reduce and reuse these materials.

Recycle+ special collection: December -January

The Recycle+ service includes special collections a few times each year of specific items or materials for recycling or donation. You can set out the following items on your designated Recycle+ pickup day during the special collection months.

Include:

• LED string lights
• String lights with small bulbs
• String lights without bulbs

Do NOT include:

• Rope lights
• Novelty lights if you cannot remove the novelty bulb
• Inflatable yard figures
• Other holiday decor

Instructions for special collection recycling:

• Prepare string lights for collection. Remove novelty or large bulbs often identified as C6, C7 or C9. These are commonly found on older or outdoor lights. Put bulbs in the garbage or save as replacement bulbs for other string lights.

• Schedule a pickup. Contact your garbage and recycling company to request a pickup at least two business days before your regular Recycle+ collection day.
• Set out your Recycle+ bin on your scheduled pickup day. Put the string lights in your bin and close the lid. If the bin is full, put string lights in a bag and set next to the bin.

Before recycling:

• Test the lights and consider donating or giving away working string lights.
• If the lights do not work, try fixing them using these repair tips from WikiHow.

Where do the materials go?

• Stretchy plastic bags and film are shipped to a company that uses the materials to manufacture outdoor products such as composite decking, playground equipment and benches. Currently, the primary company receiving Recycle+ plastic film is TREX.
• Clear plastic #1 clamshell containers are delivered to a recycling processing facility and, in coordination with D6inc, the PET thermoform, clamshell containers are recycled into new PET plastic packaging.
• Textiles are sent to Pioneer Wiping Cloth, a local company that recycles/downcycles textiles into wiping cloths and rags. 
• Compact fluorescent lightbulbs are sent to processors who are vetted and have received third party certification such as through R2, RIOS and/or e-stewards.

Recycle+ materials are handled by local, private facilities that work with a variety of end markets. These markets, like most markets for recyclable scrap commodities, are variable and may change over time.

For questions or concerns

Find answers to frequently asked questions below. Contact your garbage and recycling company for questions, to request service, or for issues related to collection.