Keep Columbus Beautiful

Election Day is Tuesday, November 3 and we are ready to collect all the political yard signs at our Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers so they can be recycled. Instead of tossing your signs in the trash, bring them to us and we'll ensure they are kept out of the landfill.

Pumpkins! Don’t trash them—feed them to animals, add them to your backyard compost, or bring them to one of the city’s Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers to be composted.

Yesterday's City of Columbus Fall Employee Cleanup saw folks from across departments and divisions working together for a cleaner, more beautiful Columbus. Thank you!

500 native plants and 25 trees planted in Woodward Park with Keep Ohio Beautiful and Columbus Recreation and Parks!

Yesterday's team up with Keep Columbus Beautiful and Columbus Recreation and Parks Department to plant 25 trees and over 500 native plants at Woodward Park will have a lasting impact as we continue to work towards a more resilient Columbus.

Don’t trash those pumpkins!

Don’t trash your pumpkins! Bring them to @columbusdps.bsky.social to be composted!

Throwback Thursday with this vintage City of Columbus refuse truck at a drug take back event. We are still doing events like this in 2026 with the next one on October 24th! Check out the 🔗 below for more details.

Over 500 native plants and 25 trees went in the ground today at Woodward Park. Thank you to the staff and volunteers with Keep Ohio Beautiful and Columbus Recreation and Parks who joined us to help keep Columbus beautiful!

We were very encouraged by all the Columbus Department of Public Service employees and Coca-Cola Consolidated volunteers who help cleanup and recycle at the Columbus Marathon this past weekend.

You can become a recycling expert by using the Waste Wizard at columbus.gov/recycle.

Last week's cleanup with our partners at MORPC helped ensure litter from the Brewery District didn't end up in the Scioto River. Thank you to all the employees who joined us!

Solomon's Temple Ministries Community Clean Up Day was a huge success!

A cool and rainy day cleanup.

The South Eastmoor crew is back at it with another cleanup along James Road.

Just 👏 don’t 👏 litter 👏

Join Keep Columbus Beautiful, Keep Ohio Beautiful, and Columbus Recreation and Parks at Woodward Nature Preserve on Wednesday, October 21 to plant trees and help improve our community's green spaces.

Our Keep Columbus Beautiful office and supply warehouse will be closed today, Monday, October 12, 2026, and both Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers will be closed on Tuesday, October 13, 2026 to honor and celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day.

Never throw away leaves in the trash or down a storm drain. Leaving the leaves is best, but if you have to get rid of them, use the free yard waste collection from the City of Columbus.

Join Coca-Cola Consolidated to help collect and recycle bottles and cans during the Columbus Marathon on Sunday, October 18! Multiple volunteer shifts are available, and all volunteers will receive a custom Coca-Cola quarter-zip and hat.

Throwback to last week's The Big Table where Keep Columbus Beautiful and Columbus Food Rescue teamed up to talk about what a beautiful Columbus means and how we can feed people and not landfills.

Our adopt-an-area partners at St. Mark's Lodge No.7 continue their outstanding service of keeping Columbus Beautiful. Thank you!

Friday's rain didn't stop employees of Shiseido from joining us for a cleanup.

We love partnering with Green Columbus to get trees out into our communities!

Visiting our new-ish tool and supply warehouse? Here's our very own Sustainable Amy to walk you through the process of getting or returning all your cleanup gear.

With September's litter cleanups in the books, we can officially report that our volunteers have already surpassed the 2025 yearly total amount of litter collected—and we still have a few months of cleanups to go!

ICYMI: Our annual Litter Index is live and is a tool that helps target littered areas volunteer and staff cleanups and combat illegal dumping with the City of Columbus Refuse Collection team.

Filling Columbus Blessing Boxes with donations of non-perishable foods brought to the city's Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers in partnership with Columbus Food Rescue. #FoodWastePreventionWeek

Once you have eaten your leftovers, gotten creative with food in your fridge, and only have items that can't be donated or eaten, then bring what's left to one of the city's FREE food scraps drop-off locations for food to be composted. #FoodWastePreventionWeek

How it's started -> how it's going: Columbus Blessing Box Edition. This food was collected at the city's Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers—a free location for residents to recycle, upcycle, and donate items instead of sending them to the landfill. #FoodWastePreventionWeek

Did you know that the city's Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers partner with Columbus Food Rescue to accept nonperishable food for donation? #FoodWastePreventionWeek

Columbus Blessing Boxes are all over our community and a wonderful resource to give non-perishable foods to those in need. #FoodWastePreventionWeek

With over a million pounds of food going to the SWACO landfill everyday, four simple tips can help reduce waste and save your family over $2,000 a year. #FoodWastePreventionWeek

It's #FoodWastePreventionWeek! Columbus households waste up to $2,000 in food each year. By recycling food scraps, you can save money, enrich local soil and reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills. Small changes make a big difference for your wallet and for our planet.

Food date labels are often misunderstood as being when food is bad. This isn’t true (except for baby formula) and is one of the reasons food goes to the landfill. These labels are set by manufacturers, and most foods are safe to eat after the listed date. #FoodWastePreventionWeek

The FREE food scraps drop-off site at Dodge Park and Community Center in Franklinton is back—just in time for the start of #FoodWastePreventionWeek.

Welcome to #FoodWastePreventionWeek! Central Ohio sends over a million pounds of food to the SWACO landfill every single day. Not only could most of this food feed people, but when rotting away in a landfill, it creates powerful greenhouse gasses that fuel the climate crisis.

Small changes at home can make a big impact on climate change. This Food Waste Prevention Week, share your favorite food-saving tip or recipe remix! Together, we can build a zero food waste future. 🍎♻️ #FoodWastePreventionWeek

Picking up litter is fly.

Our 2026 Litter Index is complete. This important tool helps us, other city departments, community groups, and volunteers better coordinate, target, and clean up litter across our community. Check it out, then plan a litter cleanup so that we can keep Columbus beautiful together.

Happy Fat Bear Week: Trash Edition!

Take a moment and enjoy the Columbus cleanup vibes.

Welcome to fall! Remember that leaving leaves on the ground is the best option—but if you must collect and dispose of them, composting at home or bagging them in paper bags and setting them out for yard waste collection are good alternatives. Never toss them in the trash.

Join us and Columbus Food Rescue for The Big Table to talk about preventing food waste and keeping Columbus beautiful on Tuesday, September 29. Details👇 in comments.

Thank you to everyone who braved the rain and joined the Scioto Sweep! We are still tallying the total amount of litter collected, but in the meantime, we want to express our sincere gratitude to all the volunteers and staff who made today's river cleanup a huge success.

On this World Cleanup Day, we are shouting out the thousands of volunteers across Columbus that show up and keep our city clean and beautiful. Thank you!

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

Happy National Cleanup Day, Columbus!

Some of our winning Columbus Litter League team members got the chance to throw out the first pitch at the Columbus Clippers game earlier this week to celebrate their incredible victory of knocking litter out of the park.

Throwback Thursday: Check out this old VHS we found about the importance of recycling. It's a classic!