To Start Service, Request Carts, etc:
Please call Republic Services at 503-636-3011
General Questions about Recycling and Composting:
Jenny Slepian, Sustainability and Management Analyst
503-635-0291
2018 Update: Due to a lack of volunteers, we expect wait times to be significant this year. Anyone who arrives before 8:30am will not be permitted to line up. We also ask that you remain patient with the volunteers who are there to assist you. If you do not want to spend your Saturday morning waiting in line to shred, there is a KGW Shred Event on April 27, or we encourage you patronize local businesses like the UPS Store and Postal Annex for your shredding needs.
The City will be hosting Community Shred Day on April 21, 2018 at Yakima (formerly the West End Building, 4101 Kruse Way). The event will run from 9am-12pm or until the shred trucks ARE FULL. Please help us by not showing up for this event excessively early and creating traffic backups on surrounding streets.
This event is sponsored by the Youth Leadership Council. They will be collecting voluntary donations for their attendance at the 2019 National League of Cities Conference in Washington DC. Please be kind to the youth who are at volunteering on a Saturday morning to assist you.
This is a very busy and labor intensive event. We will need volunteers to help take shredding from cars and keep traffic moving during this event! Please contact Jenny Slepian at jslepian@lakeoswego.city if you would like to help. We will provide fluorescent vests for all volunteers- please bring sturdy work gloves as paper cuts and even worse, cardboard cuts, are a very real possibility.
*This event is open to Lake Oswego residents, and those within the urban services boundary only. Volunteers will ask for ID and/or zip codes to confirm your residency.*
Please help us minimize traffic snarls and ensure that everyone gets the opportunity to shred their documents by following the mandatory guidelines:
More details about Shred Day will be posted shortly, and they will also be advertised in HelloLO and the Lake Oswego Review. Please direct any questions to Jenny Slepian at 503-635-0291 or jslepian@lakeoswego.city. Thank you in advance for helping us make this a positive and successful event.
Hello Lake Oswego! Welcome to our LOComposts information portal! Everything you need to know about composting in our City is located here. Lake Oswego is proud to offer curbside composting to its residents, just like Portland and Forest Grove!
Ok, but what does this even mean? How much extra work will this be for me?
All Lake Oswego households had a countertop pail delivered to them. If you are new to the area and do not have a pail, please contact Republic Services at 503-636-3011 to request one.
Your yard debris bin will still get picked up every week, and has a nice heavy lid on it, just like your garbage cart. It would take a VERY motivated animal to get into it. Luckily, we don't currently have a bear problem in Lake Oswego.
To Start Service, Request Carts, etc:
Please call Republic Services at 503-636-3011
General Questions about Recycling and Composting:
Jenny Slepian, Sustainability and Management Analyst
503-635-0291
Key Documents and Reports
Forms, Permits, and Applications