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Happy Holidays from Rumpke Waste & Recycling!
Thank you for choosing Rumpke as your waste and recycling solutions provider. Our team takes great pride in providing friendly, reliable collection for your home. As we prepare to ring in the New Year, we want to share some important service reminders.
COLLECTION DELAY
Rumpke service will not occur on Monday, January 1, 2024. Our team will operate on a one-day delay both this week (today) and next week (January 5).
- Monday customers will be serviced on Tuesday
- Tuesday customers will be serviced on Wednesday
- Wednesday customers will be serviced on Thursday
- Thursday customers will be serviced on Friday
- Friday customers will be serviced on Saturday
Please place material at the curb the night before your scheduled collection day.
Rumpke Recycling Guidelines
Not everything belongs in your recycling container. Please take a moment to review our acceptable and not acceptable lists before placing items in your bin:
Items not accepted in Rumpke’s recycling program:
- Christmas lights
- Ornaments
- Christmas trees (real or artificial)
- Ribbon
- Tissue paper
- Foil wrapping paper
- Toys
- Candles & candle holders
- Greeting cards with sound (these contain lithium-ion batteries and should not be discarded in trash or recycling)
- Styrofoam
- Plastic packaging
- Batteries (should not be placed in trash or recycling – please contact your local solid waste district for proper disposal)
Acceptable items:
- Non-foil wrapping paper
- Cardboard boxes
- Paper gift bags
- Gift boxes
- Postcards, greeting cards and envelopes
- Newspapers and sales ads
- Junk mail
- Clean pizza boxes
- Paperboard (like cracker & cereal boxes)
- Glass bottles & jars
- Beverage cartons
- Aluminum & steel cans
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Plastic bottles, jugs, tubs & cups (Colored party cups, like Solo® cups, are not accepted in Rumpke’s traditional recycling program. Greater Cincinnati customers can recycle these items as well as other hard-to-recycle plastics as part of the Hefty ReNew program.)
** Items accepted in the Hefty ReNew program must be contained within the orange bag.
Tossing a Tree?
- Trees should be no more than 6 feet tall when placed at the curb. If larger than 6 feet, please cut into smaller pieces.
- Artificial trees should be disassembled and placed in your trash container.
- Remove all decorations, including lights, garland, tinsel, ornaments, bows and hooks
- If you have Rumpke yard waste service, real trees should be collected with your yard waste.
- Please don’t place trees in recycling containers.
For more information on Rumpke’s holiday schedule and curbside guidelines, please visit www.rumpke.com.
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