Welcome to the City of Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Household trash & Recycling Information

The City contracts with Waste Connections of Tennessee for the collection and disposal of residential trash and recycling. Residential household trash is picked up once a week at the resident's backdoor in trash bins with lids the are supplied by the resident. Recyclable items are picked up once a week curbside in the brown 65-gallon cart with wheels supplied by Waste Connections of Tennessee. If there is not a brown cart at your residence, please call (865) 482-3656 to have one delivered. Collection services also include an annual household trash pick-up and a brush pick-up, both in the spring, and a leaf pick-up late fall.

WHAT ITEMS WILL BE PICKED UP AT MY BACKDOOR?*
Only household trash is picked up at the back door.
Please note that Waste Connections does not supply household trash bins with lids, residents must purchase their own.

WHAT RECYCLABLE ITEMS WILL BE PICKED UP CURBSIDE IN THE BROWN BIN WITH WHEELS?**

PAPER		PLASTICS
Office Paper - NO SHREDDED PAPER Magazines File Folders		Codes 1 through 7 must be stamped on item NO PLASTIC BAGS or GROCERY BAGS (Effective Immediately - 7/10/18)
Phone Books
Newspaper
Junk Mail		ITEMS NOT ACCEPTED CURBSIDE*
		No Styrofoam
CARDBOARD		No Ceramics
Corrugated Cardboard		No Tempered or Window Glass
Boxboard		No Batteries
		No Light Bulbs
METAL CANS		No Hardback Books
Aluminum		No Credit Cards
Steel		No VCR Tapes
		No Compact Discs
		No Bicycle Tires/Tubes
		NO GLASS (effective January 1, 2017) NO DIAPERS (adult or child)
		*Recycled items should not be in plastic bags.

The items below are no longer considered recyclable
and will NOT be accepted curbside or in the recycling containers
at either of the convenience centers. They are to be landfilled,
which means they are to be placed in your regular household trash.
This is EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY (7-10-18).

NO PLASTIC BAGS
NO GROCERY BAGS
NO SHREDDED PAPER

*HOUSEHOLD TRASH PLACED IN
BROWN BINS WILL NOT BE PICKED UP!

**UNACCEPTED ITEMS PLACED IN THE BROWN BINS WILL RESULT IN
YOUR RECYCLING NOT BEING PICKED UP THAT WEEK!

NOTE: Hazardous Materials will not be accepted!

HOLIDAY SCHEDULE:
Waste Connections only observes the following holidays:

Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

If a holiday falls on Monday, trash/recycling will be picked up on Tuesday, with Friday routes being collected on Saturday. For example, if the holiday is on Monday, pick-up will run one day late all week. If the holiday is on Thursday, then only Thursday and Friday will be delayed one day. If the holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, collection services will not be affected. All other holidays will be normal collection days.

For further information, please contact Waste Connections of Tennessee at (865) 482-3656.