Scholarship Opportunities

Bend Garbage & Recycling offers four $1000 scholarships to local high school seniors in our community. Eligible high schools include: Bend Seniors High School, Mountain View High School, Summit High School and Marshall High Schools.

Seniors planning to attend an accredited trade school, college, university or community college as full-time students for the fall term of 2012 are encouraged to apply. Contact Bend Senior High, Mountain View, Summit or Marshall High School for criteria and applications. Applications deadline is April 13, 2012. Please return all applications to the high schools, they will not be accepted at the Bend Garbage & Recycling office.

Carts Curbside by 6:00 a.m.

To help Bend Garbage & Recycling provide the best service possible customers are asked to, please have their carts at the curb by 6:00 a.m. on their collection day. Pick up times for collection may vary due to changes in routing schedules. This will help ensure that your garbage & recycling is collected. Thank you for your help.

Holiday Recycling Tips

This time of the year with gifts, holiday cards and catalogs, it can be difficult to figure out which items can be recycled and which ones are non-recyclable.

Holiday items you can recycle:
* Regular gift-wrapping paper * paper shopping bags * gift boxes * holiday cards and envelopes
* packing paper & cardboard packing pieces * holiday catalogs and advertisements

Holiday items you can’t recycle:
*Liners and tissue paper from shopping bags and shoe & gift boxes * ribbon * foil backed wrapping paper * plastic bags and wrappers * Styrofoam packing peanuts *rigid Styrofoam

Most mailing services will accept clean, bagged Styrofoam peanuts for reuse.

Christmas Tree Recycling Information

Boy Scouts troops 18, 25, 23, 60 and 460 will be collecting Christmas trees for recycling in your community on the weekends of December 31 & January 1 and January 7 & 8.

Individual Troops will post door flyers specifying which days they will be picking up trees in your neighborhood, starting mid-December. If you do not receive a flyer or need further assistance, please call and leave a message using the phone numbers below;

541-385-3977 for pick-up SW Bend; west of 3rd street and south of Newport/Greenwood

541-385-2692 for pick-up NW Bend; west of 3rd street and north of Newport/Greenwood

541-385-2672 for pick-up NE Bend; east of 3rd street and north of Greenwood/Highway 20

541-385-3942 for pick-up SE Bend; east of 3rd street and south of Greenwood/Highway 20

Please have trees cleaned of all lights, decorations, tinsel and out of the stand. Place trees at the end of the driveway by 9:00 a.m.

A tax-deductible donation of $5.00 is greatly appreciated. Make your check payable to “Boy Scouts of America.” Place the donation in a plastic bag and securely attach it to your tree with a rubber band. Proceeds go directly to Scouts and support their programs.

At no charge Deschutes Recycling, located at Knott Landfill, will take Christmas trees Monday - Saturday, through January 31, 2012. Trees cannot have tinsel or flocking.

City of Bend - Yard Debris Service

December & January Collection Schedule:

Bend Garbage & Recycling's city of Bend yard debris customers will be on a on-call service for the months of December & January.

Customers can call whenever their cart is full..... Contact Bend Garbage & Recycling for up to two collections per month, collection will be on Friday. Use the yard debris cart for your Christmas tree, pine needles, and raw fruits & vegetables.

Regular every other week schedule will resume February 2012. For more information contact Bend Garbage & Recycling @ 541.382-2263.

Holiday Collection Schedule

Bend Garbage & Recycling collects on all holidays except for Christmas Day and New Years Day. This year, Christmas Day and New Years Day both fall on Sunday which means there will be no interruption in your garbage & recycling collection schedule. Please have your carts out by 6:00 a.m. on your collection day.

Bend Garbage & Recycling office will be closed December 26 and January 2.

Thanksgiving Day Collection Schedule

On Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2011, Bend Garbage & Recycling's collection schedule will operate as usual. Please have your carts out by 6:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day.

Bend Garbage & Recycling's office will be closed on Thanksgiving Day and will reopen on Friday, November 25 at 8:00 a.m. 541-382-2263.

Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.