Snow day!

♻️❄️'Tis the season...to recycle your broken holiday lights!🎄♻️ Come drop them off for FREE at one of our Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers, located at 1550 Georgesville Rd OR 2100 Alum Creek Dr. Let's ring in the holiday season sustainably!

Phil Meeyup is very much enjoying all this beautiful snow!

Spoiler: Your trash will be picked up today.

Help support community and volunteer litter cleanups, beautification projects, and more by donating to the Keep Columbus Beautiful Foundation on this Giving Tuesday. https://columbusfdn.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=5701

Finding new uses for items that are typically considered waste is one way we are helping educate Columbus about the power of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycling.

We love partnering with Ohio State students to help Keep Columbus Beautiful! Their efforts picked up over 140 bags of litter—that's about the weight of a small car. Thank you!

♻️ LET'S GOOOO!!! 🏈

We all know that our Buckeyes know how to handle all the trash better than "The Tea❌ Up North."

There's still time to drop-off those pumpkins (even the rotten ones) to one of the city's Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers.

The city’s food scraps drop-off sites can take any and all of your food waste to be composted after any and all meals. Learn more at columbus.gov/foodwaste

Our Keep Columbus Beautiful office and both Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers are closed today. To have a fun and sustainable Thanksgiving, remember to eat your leftovers and bring your food scraps to one of our drop-off sites after your meal today.

Bring cooking fats, oils, and grease to one of the city’s Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers to be recycled. Never put them down the drain!

Reminder that trash collection moves forward a day after Thanksgiving but the Food Scraps Drop-Off locations are open for any leftovers and scraps that can be composted. 🗑️🦃

We are so ready to beat ❌ichigan—just like the litter we pick up to keep Colu❌bus beautiful. #ttun #ohiostate #ohio

Holidays generate a lot of wasted food. Eat leftovers, donate uneaten food, and then bring any remaining food scraps to one of the city’s free drop-off sites to be composted. Learn more at columbus.gov/foodwaste

We are happy to be part of this team effort!

Reminder: We are still accepting pumpkins to be composted for FREE through the end of November at these three locations! As we switch our decor from pumpkins to poinsettias, let's do it sustainably!🎃🎄

Congratulations to our friend and partner Collin Marshall and the Trash Party on being nominated as a 2025 Everyday Kindness Hero. Your efforts help Keep Columbus Beautiful!

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The Georgesville Waste and Reuse Convenience Center will be closed today, Saturday, November 22. Please use the Alum Creek location which is open from 10 AM to 6 PM. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Don’t throw away your pumpkins or send them to the landfill—bring them to one of the city’s Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers to be composted. #pumpkin #compost #columbus

Free food drive-the event this Monday, Nov. 24 from 3-5 p.m. at Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center, 546 Jack Gibbs Blvd. Fresh produce, frozen meals, pantry items and diapers. No registration required. Just drive in or walk up. Limited supplies, First come, first served.

This weekend's cleanup with the Trash Party crew resulted in over 40 tires and literal tons of trash being picked up. Thank you to these dedicated volunteers!

Food for Thought: One in seven of our neighbors struggles to put food on the table. 🍽️ By recycling food waste, we can extend landfill life and support families in need. Small steps like this help build a stronger, healthier community. Find your Food Scrap Drop-Off site at columbus.gov/foodwaste

The city's Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers will continue to accept non-perishable food and toiletries to support residents in our community. Stop by the Alum Creek or Georgesville locations Tuesday—Saturday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. with your items.

What’s the weirdest thing you have found during a litter cleanup? #trash #litter #cleanup

It's National Take a Hike Day! Hit a trail and if you find a piece of litter, pick it up so that we keep Columbus beautiful together! #NationalTakeAHikeDay

Crew Cat joined us for a a litter pickup because everyone is on the cleanup crew!

It's America Recycles Day! When you fill up your blue bin with recyclables, you make every day America Recycles Day. Celebrate and learn how to recycle right at columbus.gov/recycle

Everyday is America Recycles Day here in Columbus! #americarecyclesday #recycle #columbus

Just look at those adorable little raccoon paw prints all over the food scraps drop-off bins. 🐾😍

"Columbus city code says litter includes anything from car parts and cigarette butts to leaves, glass, wire and paper. Human and pet waste are also included in the definition."

Everyday is World Kindness Day to the thousands of volunteers and community members who pickup litter across our neighborhoods so that we can all live in a clean, safe, and beautiful Columbus together. #WorldKindnessDay

ASEZ WAO, a Church of God volunteer group and Adopt-An-Area partner, held a litter cleanup along N. High Street resulting in 25 trash bags being filled and helping keep our neighborhood beautiful. Thank you!

There are lots of leaves on the ground or falling. Leave them—or if you must collect them set them out for yard waste collection or bring them to one of the city’s Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers for free. #leaves #yardwork #columbus

In honor of those who served, our Keep Columbus Beautiful office and both Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers will be closed today, Tuesday, November 11, for Veterans Day.

🎄New collection option for holidays lights just dropped! 🎄

Reminder: "Household garbage and refuse collection in Columbus will shift by one day during the week for Veterans Day."  

Our Department, along with our Keep Columbus Beautiful program, is proud to support the City's response to the SNAP and food emergency by supporting food collections, transporting food, collecting recycling at giveaways, and more. It's just one more way we are serving our community.

We throw away over a million pounds of food a day while some of our neighbors are hungry. Help us ensure non-perishable food doesn’t go to the landfill by donating to help those in need at one of the city’s Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers. #food #donate #columbus

POV: You are a compost dumpster being filled with pumpkins. Bring them to one of the Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers to help ensure they don’t go to the landfill. #pumpkins #compost #columbus

Columbus residents, we need your help right now. Donations are running low. Please bring non-perishable food, hygiene items, and household essentials to our listed Columbus Recreation and Parks locations today. Let’s make sure our neighbors don’t go without. LEARN MORE: https://bit.ly/4oKIKO0

Columbus residents, we need your help right now. Donations are running low. Please bring non-perishable food, hygiene items, and household essentials to our listed Columbus Recreation and Parks locations today. Let’s make sure our neighbors don’t go without. LEARN MORE: https://bit.ly/3XfeE9y.

Both of the City’s Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers are accepting yard signs to be recycled—so please don’t toss them in your trash bin. 🇺🇸♻️

Have yard signs? We'll recycle them for FREE! Bring your yard signs to one of our two Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers, located at 1550 Georgesville Rd and 2100 Alum Creek Dr. We will be collecting signs all November, Tuesday - Saturday, 10 AM - 6 PM.

Volunteers collected over three times more litter last month than in October 2024—an impressive feat that highlights the dedication and efforts community members are making to keep Columbus beautiful. Thank you so much for your hard work!

Starting today, both of our Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers will be accepting non-perishable food items and toiletries through a partnership with Columbus Food Rescue and Local Matters. Bring your items in Tuesday—Saturday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Help ensure pumpkins don’t rot away in the landfill by bringing them to one of the City’s two Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers to be composted. #columbus #cbus #pumpkins

"In the United States, 35% of food waste comes from households, while 18% comes from manufacturing and 17% from food service, and 24% happens on farms."