Key Dates

In October 2023, Solid Waste residential curbside collection customers will receive a postcard with instructions on how to select a cart.

At its June 5 meeting, the City Council approved a lease purchase agreement that will provide Solid Waste with 10 new Battle Motors Sidewinder Series Packer trucks and three new Freightliner M2 Wolverine Series Packer trucks that will be used for residential curbside automated refuse collection.

The proposed ordinance changes that include the transition to automated collection will be on the agenda for the scheduled City Council meeting.

Because your feedback is important to evaluating residential curbside trash collection, we ask that you attend our customer input meeting from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Activities and Recreation Center, 1701 West Ash St.

Because your feedback is important to evaluating residential curbside trash collection, we ask that you attend our customer input meeting from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Activities and Recreation Center, 1701 West Ash St.

At the Dec. 5 Columbia City Council meeting, the Council approved Solid Waste’s proposed ordinance amendment eliminating the required use of official City-provided logoed refuse bags for residential curbside collections as well as the provision that the City provide trash bags.

With passage of the amendment, Solid Waste residential curbside customers are permitted to place their household refuse in any trash bag for curbside collection. At this time, there is no limit to the number of bags customers can place curbside. All trash to be collected must be in a bag, and all bags to be collected must weigh no more than 50 pounds.

Solid Waste will continue to provide vouchers that can be exchanged for trash bags until the current stock of bags is depleted. Solid Waste expects vouchers will be mailed in January, and customers will be able to redeem them at the same local participating distributors.

There is no change to the recycling program at this time. Customers will continue to place mixed containers (aluminum cans, tin cans, glass and plastic) in blue bags. Mixed fibers (paper and cardboard) can be bundled in a box or a paper bag.