New Garbage Rates Starting January 1, 2024

At its October 17 meeting, City Council approved an adjustment to garbage, recycling, and organics collection service rates charged by Republic Services. 

Residential customers will see an increase on their bi-monthly bills from Republic Services of 6% starting January 1, 2024. This equates to a $2.17 increase per month for customers with a 35-gallon cart. Your charges are based on the size of your garbage container. To change the size of your container, contact Republic Services at 503-636-3011.

Commercial container rates will increase by an average of approximately 7%. A reminder that as of January 2023, commercial container rates include commercial organics (food scraps) collection in addition to garbage and recycling. 

Rate increases are due to rising costs of disposal and recycling processing and labor.