Rumpke Holiday Reminders

The upcoming holidays will require a one-day service delay.

CINCINNATI - If your trash or recycling is traditionally collected on Thursday or Friday – you will experience a one-day service delay for the next two weeks because of the upcoming holidays.

Rumpke reminds customers that its team observes both Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Thursday customers will be serviced on Friday, and Friday customers will be serviced Saturday the weeks of December 21 and December 29.

Rumpke expects to see even more trash at the curb the next few weeks.

“Traditionally we see about 25 percent more trash and recycling the weeks following Christmas,” said Molly Yeager, communications manager, Rumpke. “It’s more cardboard boxes, more bottles and cans and more paper.”

Yeager added that the Rumpke team will also encounter items not accepted in its trash or recycling programs including liquids, household hazardous waste and batteries.

“Just like Santa, we have a naughty and nice list,” said Yeager. “Before you place your material at the curb, please review our curbside guidelines to help protect the Rumpke team, the motoring public and first responders.”

Rumpke’s Naughty and Nice List

Nice List (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

Naughty List (not accepted):

• Lithium-ion batteries
• Christmas lights
• Ornaments
• Christmas trees (real or artificial)
• Tissue paper
• Ribbons & bows
• 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 (packing peanuts, bubble wrap, etc.)

For those residents looking ahead to January and the disposal of Christmas trees, Rumpke says they can be placed curbside the first two weeks of January, at no additional cost. Trees should be free of all decorations. If the tree is larger than six feet, it should be cut in half.