Holiday recycling tips & Christmas tree disposal

(TULSA, Okla.) As we enjoy celebrating the holidays, we have more to throw away – either in our gray trash cart or blue recycling cart. Recycling is easy for Tulsa residents, especially during the holiday season. Most packaging and wrapping paper are recyclable in the City’s blue recycling carts, such as cardboard boxes and basic wrapping paper without foil or glitter. Please recycle aluminum and steel cans, cardboard and paper, plastic bottles and jugs, and glass bottles and jars. Below is a list of items that cannot be recycled in the blue recycling cart and should be placed in the gray trash cart. For questions on what can be recycled, remember: When in doubt, throw it out – to learn more, visit www.TulsaRecycles.com Do NOT recycle: Foil, shiny or glitter wrapping paper Styrofoam Plastic bags, flexible film plastics, bubble wrap or tarps Plastic strapping Ribbons or bows Tinsel Christmas lights Bulbs or ornaments Textiles – tree skirts, stockings or clothing Ceramics Electronics Artificial or live Christmas trees Christmas Tree Disposal: In December and January, residents may put trees at the curb on their primary collection day. Trees need to be cut into 4-foot sections to fit into the hopper of the refuse trucks. Residents throwing away artificial trees need to put them in the gray trash cart. Tulsa residents also may bring their live Christmas trees to be ground into mulch at the City’s Mulch Site, 2100 N. 145th East Ave. Trees brought to the site must have all decorations removed. The mulch site will be closed Dec. 24, 25, and 26, 2019, and Jan. 1, 2020. On Jan. 2, it will resume its usual schedule of 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week, excluding City holidays.