City officials said recycling garbage 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. They ask that citizens recycle aluminum and steel cans, cardboard and paper, plastic bottles and jugs, and glass bottles and jars.
Here are some items that can’t be recycled:
- Foil, shiny or glitter wrapping paper
- Plastic bags, flexible film plastics, bubble wrap or tarps
- Textiles – tree skirts, stockings or clothing
- Plastic strapping
- Styrofoam
- Ribbons or bows
- Tinsel
- Christmas lights
- Bulbs or ornaments
- Electronics
- Artificial or live Christmas trees
- Ceramics
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.