Recycling and Waste Management Tips in Portland after the Holidays

After the holidays, Portland gives post-holiday recycling tips, such as how to dispose of trees, lights and ornaments and encourages sustainable recycling.

As a beginning of a New Year, Portland encourages its residents on managing their post-holiday waste in a sustainable way through recycling and disposal. It also has a website page donating information that will help residents in determining how the after-holiday trash should be sorted.

Where a holiday garbage collection was delayed a day, that waste must be sorted into garbage, recycling, batteries, and compost. Tanglers-such as lights, ribbons, and cords that cause troublesome jams in recycling machinery-should be disposed of as garbage.

They can be put next to the compost bin if 6 feet long or shorter or cut into smaller pieces for free composting. Artificial or flocked trees must be disposed of as garbage.

Old holiday ornaments can get donated or given away via local platforms such as Nextdoor or Craigslist. This is part of what will save resource-strapped Portlanders from having to deal with a Christmas waste mountain through recycling and sustainable disposal.