Free 'Bring Your Own Bucket' Event

Newport Avenue Market and Deschutes Recycling are sponsoring the second annual 'Bring Your Own Bucket' Event.

When: Saturday, June 1, 2013
Where: Newport Avenue Market (1121 NW Newport Avenue, Bend)
When: 10:00 a.m. - while supplies last

Customers are invited to come down to Newport Avenue Market on Saturday and bring their own 5 gallon bucket to fill with Deschutes Recycling's ReGrow compost for free (while supplies last).

ReGrow compost is a nutrient rich product made from locally recycled yard trimmings, recycled food and vegetable trimmings.  ReGrow compost is a perfect supplement to the sandy Central Oregon soils.

One cubic yard ReGrow compost bags will also be available for purchase at Newport Avenue Market.

For more information, contact 541-382-3940.

City Yard Debris Collection

Bend Garbage & Recycling offers yard debris subsciption service to residential customers within the Bend city limits.

IF IT GROWS, IT GOES!
Acceptable materials include: yard trimmings, leaves, pine needles, grass clippings and raw fruit & vegetable scraps.

The cost is $4.90 per month and the 95 gallon yard debris cart will be picked up curbside every-other-week. 

For more information about the program, contact 541-382-2263 or visit bendgarbage.com.

Regular Collection Schedule on Memorial Day

Bend Garbage & Recycling will be operating on a normal collection schedule on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, 2013.

Customers who have garbage & recycling collection service on Monday’s should have their carts out by 6:00 a.m. or the night before.

The Bend Garbage & Recycling office will be closed on Memorial Day, May 27, 2013 and will re-open on Tuesday, May 28 at 8:00 a.m.

Bend Garbage & Recycling collects on all holidays except for Christmas Day and New Years Day.  This year our Wednesday through Friday customers will be affected by our holiday collection schedule.

For more information please call our customer service department at 541-382-2263 or visit www.bendgarbage.com.

Let's Pull Together Event

Let's Pull Together is a noxious weed eradication event consisting of collaborative partnerships with city and county governments, park, school and irrigation districts, neighborhood and homeowners associations, the forest service and state parks, local businesses and our incredible volunteers all join together for good times and clean country (city) living.

When: Saturday June 8th, 2013 
Meet at your preferred weed pull site at 9 am for group orientation and identification training with weed experts. Complimentary festivities for volunteers will follow in each community at high noon.


How to get involved:  Bring your weeding tool of choice, your friends, your family, your group and join in. Meet at any one of the locations on June 8th, 2013.  

Site coordinators and on-site noxious weed experts will assist you in identifying native plants and noxious weeds.  Sites are Family Friendly for children of all ages, and for adult of all physical ability levels. Mobile/Walking groups will depart meet-at location after orientation

For more information and site locations, visit: letspulltogether.com 

Free Residential Shred in Sunriver

On Saturday, June 1st , 2013, from 9am - 12pm, the Sunriver Police Department will sponsor it's second annual shredding and prescription medication drop-off event in the front parking lot of the Sunriver Police Department, located at 57455 Abbot Drive.

SecureShred, a division of Bend Garbage & Recycling will be collecting and shredding personal documents.  This event is intended for personal residential document shredding and drug disposal, not for business or company disposal.   

No advance document sorting is necessary as shredding equipment can destroy paperwork with paper clips and staples attaches.  File folders may also be shredded.

The event is free to the public. Please consider bringing a donation of non-perishable food to benefit Care and Share, a local non-profit organization that provides food to local families.

For more information, contact 541-593-1014. 

For more information about SecureShred, visit bendgarbage.com.

Rent a New Drop Box and get $20 Off

Bend Garbage & Recycling is offering $20.00 off on a New Order for a Drop Box.

If you have a large amount of yard debris or want to work together as a neighborhood, consider renting a drop box during the FireFree event May 3 - May 11, 2013.

Drop box loads of clean brush, limbs, grass, leaves, pine needles, and weeds can be recycled for free during the FireFree event at Knott Landfill.

We deliver the container, you load it up and we haul it away. It’s that easy!  Loads must be free of rocks, dirt, plastic bags and garbage to qualify for free disposal.

Offer valid on new drop box orders within Bend Garbage & Recycling service area.  Discount available now through May 31, 2013.

For more information, call 541-382-2263 or visit bendgarbage.com.

Free Residential Shred Event

Ameriprise Financial is partnering with SecureShred offering residents an opportunity to safely destroy

On-Site Document Destruction Truck

personal documents.

When: Saturday, May 11, 2013

Where: Ameriprise Financial 
 214 SE Vine Lane in Bend 

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

SecureShred will destroy documents right on site.  Paper clips, staples and  folders are okay.  All shredded material will be recycled.

For more information about the residential free shred event please call 541-389-2528.

Locally owned, SecureShred will destroy any amount of sensitive documents or electronic data with one time, on-call, scheduled and walk-in services.  For more information, please call 541-382-2263 or visit www.bendgarbage.com.