Free Tire Collection Event

Saturday, March 17, 2012
7:00 am - 4:30 pm
Knott Landfill, 61050 SE 27th Street, Bend

Residents are encouraged to dispose of unwanted tires free at a collection event scheduled on Saturday, March 17 at Deschutes County's Knott Landfill.

The semi-annual event benefits the community by giving citizens an opportunity to dispose of used tires in a responsible manner.

Tires both on-and-off the rim can be dropped off.
Tires over 24.5" (wheel diameter), farm equipment tires, tires from businesses, fleet tires, or heavy equipment tires will not be accepted at the event.

Limit 12 tires per household.

For more information, please contact the Deschutes County Department of Solid Waste at 541.317.3163 or visit www.deschutes.org/solidwaste.

Free Document Shred Event in Bend

SecureShred and the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office have partnered for this free shred event to give residents a safe method to dispose of private documents and learn identity theft prevention tips.

This event is for residential shredding only - no commercial business shredding.

Saturday, March 24 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Deschutes Co Sheriff's Office - 63333 West Hwy 20, Bend

At this event, there will be a deputy on hand to collect prescriptions and over the counter medication.
No advance document sorting is necessary, the SecureShred truck can destroy paperwork with paper clips and staples attached. File folders may also be shredded.

Residents are asked to being a non-perishable food item to donate to the food bank.

SecureShred offers complete on-site document destruction at your home or business, servicing all of Central Oregon. You can schedule weekly, monthly, on-call or one time service, whatever best fits you needs. Call today for more information on SecureShred at 541.382.2263.

Shred Old Documents Securely

Now is a great time to clean out your old documents and get ready for the New Year. SecureShred provides complete on site document destruction at your home or business. SecureShred provides regular scheduled, on-call or one time shredding. No advance document sorting is necessary, the SecureShred truck can destroy paperwork with paper clips and staples attached. You can also bring your documents to our Bend Garbage & Recycling office or to Deschutes Recycling located at Knott

Landfill. Call 541.382.2263 for more information or to schedule a shred.

Commercial Service Reviews

Bend Garbage & Recycling offers their commercial customers free on site waste audits. Bend Garbage & Recycling realizes that the amount and type of material a business discards changes over time and new recycling opportunities may arise. The purpose of the waste audit is to help the customer determine the proper level of service that best addresses their needs.

Bend Garbage & Recycling provides a full range of solid waste and recycling services including food waste collection for business within the city of Bend. In addition they provide on site document destruction and medical waste collection services. For more information, contact 541.382.2263.

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.