High Desert Garden Tour

The 22^nd Annual High Desert Garden Tour is Saturday, July 18^th from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. This annual event is presented by OSU Extension Service and Central Oregon Chapter of OSU Master Gardeners is an educational and fun opportunity for gardeners to see a variety of garden styles and plant choices they can have in their own yards. It is a self-guided tour with hundreds of participants where we staff OSU Master Gardeners at all locations to answer gardening questions throughout the day. This year we are featuring seven gardens in Bend.

The cost of the tour is $10. Children 16 and under are free.

For more information, please click here

 

Deschutes Recycling will be Closed on Independence Day

Deschutes Recycling and Knott Landfill will be closed on Saturday, July 4th, 2015 for Independence Day. Deschutes Recycling and Knott Landfill will reopen on Monday, July 6th, 2015 at 7:00 am.

For more information on the products and services Deschutes Recycling has to offer, visit deschutesrecycling.com or call 541-388-1910

Free Residential Shred Event to Benefit The Bloom Project

SecureShred is offering a residential shredding event on Saturday, June 6th, 2015, benefiting The Bloom Project.

Saturday, June 6, 2015
Cascade Village Mall (JC Penney parking lot by Great Clips and Massage Envy)
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

The events are intended for residential shredding only, no commercial or business shredding.

They are asking for a suggested $5.00 donation per box (Cash or checks, checks payable to: The Bloom Project). All proceeds will benefit The Bloom Project. The Bloom Project gives the gift of fresh floral arrangements to hospice and palliative care patients. For more information about The Bloom Project, please visit www.thebloomproject.org

If you would like more information about SecureShred or would like to schedule us to come to your home or business to shred onsite, please call 541-382-2263 or visit bendgarbage.com

Residential Yard Debris Service Now Year-Round

If It Grows, It Goes!

For our city customers, yard debris curbside recycling is an ongoing subscription service for only $4.90 per month. Collection is now year-round and picked up on the same day as your garbage, every-other-week opposite of your commingle recycling. Please have your roll cart out by 6:00 am.

What is Yard Debris?
Grass clippings, brush, weeds, pine needles, plant prunings, branches no larger than 2" in diameter and 36" in length. Raw fruit & vegetable scraps are also acceptable (such as apple cores, banana peels, potato skins, zucchini, pumpkins, coffee grounds & filters, tea bags, etc.

For more information, please contact our customer service department at 541-382-2263

Let's Pull Together

Let's Pull Together is a noxious weed eradication event consisting of collaborative partnerships all joining together.

Why pull noxious weeds?
Noxious weeds are non-native invasive species which threaten our ecosystem. They not only crowd our native plants, but they starve wildlife, use water and create allergens. They also provide tremendous ladder fuel which during wildfires can radically change the speed and fury at which wildfires burn.

How to get involved:
Bring your weeding tool of choice, your friends and family and join in. Meet us at any one of our locations on June 13th at 9:00 am. Our 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.

Our weed pull event will be followed by a celebration for our hardworking volunteers!
Festivities are free for all volunteers!
Bend Festivities: Noon at the Westside Venue in the Old Mill District. The Westside Venue is on the west side of the river at the footbridge in the Old Mill District.
Relax and enjoy live music, lunch from Cafe Yumm, and refreshing beverages including beer for Cascade Brewery. Prizes awarded to volunteers right after lunch!

June 13th, 2015
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Locations: Pilot Butte State Park, Old Mill District

For more information, please visit letspulltogether.com

Free Residential Shred Event

SecureShred will provide Central Oregonians a safe method for disposing of personal documents at the upcoming free residential shred event.

Saturday, May 16th, 2015
Ameriprise Financial
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
214 SE Vine Lane

This free event is intended for residential shredding only, no commercial or business shredding provided. No sorting necessary; personal documents with staples and paperclips are fine.

For more information on SecureShred please contact 541-382-2263 or visit bendgarbage.com

Normal Collection Schedule on Memorial Day

Bend Garbage & Recycling will be operating on a normal collection schedule on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, 2015.

Customers who have garbage and 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 25, 2015 and will re-open Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 8:00 a.m.

Bend Garbage & Recycling collects on all holidays except for Christmas Day and New Years Day.

For more information, please call our office at 541-382-2263 or visit bendgarbage.com