Welcome to Republic Services of Morgantown, WV
At Republic Services, we are committed to providing reliable and responsible recycling and waste disposal solutions day in and day out. We work to ensure safe and dependable solutions for your home, business, and community.
The art of the cart.
Grey is for garbage. Green is for recycling!
Great news! You already use a Republic Services cart for your recycling service; as part of the enhanced curbside waste collection services provided by Republic Services, all City of Morgantown residents* received a grey trash cart.
- Trash carts are grey, have large handles and wheels, and have the graphic below molded onto the lid
- Carts are 95-gallon in size - see Customer Request for Small Capacity Cart Exchange (35-gallon) section below
- A grey trash cart should be used in place of any other personal trash container. Place the cart opening toward the road for collection, and 4’ from other obstacles
- The QR code in the lid graphic will take you to a newly developed website, which is a central point to get up-to-date information on your service, kids’ resources, ways to contact us, and more!
- Your green cart will continue to be used for your unbagged, single-stream recycling as normal
- Don’t have a green recycling cart? Let us know! While optional, participating in the weekly recycling collection is a great way to reduce waste in your cart, and preserve the planet for future generations!
*Some residents are part of a multi-unit structure with alternate trash collection procedures in place and will not utilize carts.
Customer Request for Small Capacity Cart Exchange
(35-gallon)
Republic Services recognizes there may be residents who need to utilize a smaller cart for their trash service. Exchanges may be completed at no charge in many, but not all, circumstances.
Qualifying for no-charge exchange (not limited to):
1. Senior Citizen
2. Space constraints or limited access to curbside collection
Please complete the form below.
Customer service
Garbage & recycling service, and missed pickups
Phone: 304-366-8900
Email: MorgantownWVMuni@republicservices.com
Customer service hours:
Monday – Friday: 7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday: 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Start/stop service, billing, or mailing address changes
City of Morgantown
Request a recycling cart
Phone: 304-284-7405
Weather delays
If services are delayed due to inclement weather, customers will be serviced the next day in most instances, unless weather conditions continue to be adverse and roadways are not passable.
View your pickup and holiday schedule
This button will take you to the national Republic Services website where you will enter your service address to see your holiday and pickup schedule.
Holiday schedule
We observe the following holidays. If your normal collection falls on or after the holiday, it will be delayed by one day. Holidays falling on the weekend will not delay collection.
New Year’s Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
Monthly recycling drop-off events
Recycling drop-off events will take place each month.
Where:
Mountaineer Transfer Station
2130 Rail Street
Westover, WV, 26501
When: The second (2nd) Saturday
Time: 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
Service information and guidelines
Additional resources
Recycling Simplified videos
Check out these 15-second videos for quick tips on recycling basics.
Take a virtual field trip
Take your students on a virtual field trip of how a recycling center and a modern landfill works. These videos are designed to inform specific lessons in 3rd-5th grade, 6th-8th grade, and 9th-12th grade, but can also be used outside of those lessons to take your students on a journey through the process!
Recycling center video tour
3rd - 5th grade video is featured below
Kid's corner
Trash day maze
Help the truck driver navigate his route to pick up the neighborhood’s trash and recycling. Download
Electronics word search
Our electronics are tangled. Can you help find which electronics are recyclable? Download
Outdoors bingo
Take a walk around your neighborhood with this Bingo sheet. Find four in a row! Download
FAQs
Frequently asked questions about recycling, and waste services in the City of Sugar Land, TX
Collection Guidelines & Reporting an Issue
- Place the trash cart at the collection point (street curb or alley) by 6 a.m. on your scheduled collection day to ensure pickup.
- Place the cart at least four feet from your recycling cart or any other object that may impede the mechanical arm of the truck. (It is preferable to place the trash cart on one side of your driveway and the recycling cart on the opposite side.)
- Put trash in sealed plastic bags before placing it in the cart.
- Do not put yard trimmings, corrugated cardboard boxes, recyclables, or chemicals in the trash cart - a separate collection is provided for these items.
- Do not place hot ashes in the trash cart. Once ashes are cool, place them in a sealed bag. Place the sealed bag in the trash cart for disposal.
Please call customer service at 304-366-8900 or use the online
Reasons waste may not be collected:
• Cart too far from the curb
• Overfilled or overweight cart
• Insufficient space to service cart/car blocking the cart
• Unacceptable material in cart
Please call customer service at 304-366-8900, or use the online
We observe the following holidays. If your normal collection falls on or after the holiday, it will be delayed by one day. Holidays falling on the weekend will not delay collection.
New Year’s Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
Bulky waste service is provided once a week for items too large to fit in the garbage cart. Bulky waste does not include construction, demolition, hazardous or electronic wastes.
- Set your bulky items out by 6 a.m. on your collection day but no earlier than 6 p.m. the evening before.
- Residents may place 1 bulky item per week for collection on their bulky waste service day.
- Bulky items should be set out at the curb at least four feet from other objects.
- Do not place items in your garbage cart for bulky waste collection. Items should be placed directly at the curb.
- Residents will be able to schedule additional garbage and bulky waste service by contacting Republic Services Customer Service at 304-366-8900.
- This service is subject to fees that must be paid prior to scheduling the service.
Electronic waste collection is available once a month. Please call 304-366-8900 or email Republic Services at MorgantownWVMuni@republicservices.com to schedule a pickup.
Please remember to not place these materials in your garbage or recycling carts, as they should be disposed of properly. It is also important to note that household hazardous waste material placed at the curb with bulky waste will not be collected.
Recycling Questions
Please make sure your recyclables are
Please remove food waste, lids, and rinse containers.
Accepted items:
- Plastic - Water bottles, Take out containers, Soda Bottles, Detergent Containers, Bagged Film Plastics
- Glass - Clear, green, and brown glass bottles or jars
- Metal - All metal food and beverage cans (Aluminum beverage cans, food cans, steel food containers)
- Paper - Paper (staples okay), Newspaper, Envelopes, Catalogs, Magazines, Junk Mail, Phone Books, Brochures, Cereal boxes, and any other household paper products, including shredded paper (not bagged).
- Bagged shredded paper must be placed in the garbage cart.
- Cardboard - Ream wrappers, File Folders, Poster Board, Frozen Food Boxes, Cardboard boxes (folded flat), Milk Cartons, Chipboard
Recycling information from Morgantown City:
Please do NOT place these items in your recycling cart:
- Appliances and electronics - please consider donating
- Bubble wrap
- Batteries or electronics
- Clothing & Shoes - please consider donating
- Construction waste
- Diapers
- Drinking glasses, other glassware
- Flower pots
- Foil
- Food-contaminated paper & napkins (NO greasy pizza boxes)
- Food & wet waste, food-contaminated paper plates and napkins
- Frozen food bags and chip bags
- Garden hoses
- Hardback books - please consider donating
- Hazardous or Toxic product containers
- Kitchen waste
- Light bulbs
- Medical waste - see the medical waste FAQ for more resources.
- Pet waste
- Pill bottles
- Plastic bags
- Plastic or metal clothes hangers
- Plastic wrap
- Polystyrene (i.e. - Styrofoam™ food containers, cups, packing peanuts)
- Propane Tanks
- Rubber balls & sports equipment
- Scrap metal
- Tires
- Tools - please consider donating
- Toys (plastic toys) - please consider donating
- Trash bags
- Wood
- Yard Waste
Please consider donating these items if in good condition:
• Ceramics (dishes, etc.)
• Clothing
• Furniture
• Pots or pans
• Shoes or clothing
• Toys
Places to donate:
- Animal Friends
https://www.animalfriendswv.org/ - Christian Help
https://motownchristianhelp.com/ - Habitat for Humanity ReStore
https://monvalleyhfh.org/restore/donation-guide/ - Morgantown Goodwill
https://www.goodwillncwv.org/ - The Ranch Community Store
https://ranchstore.org/ - Salvation Army
https://satruck.org/
Recycling information from Morgantown City:
Non-recyclables contaminate recycling loads and need to be removed during the sorting process. Some items may also contaminate clean recyclable items (ex. pasta sauce jar with sauce still in it, can soak into clean office paper which is then no longer recyclable either).
If our drivers notice a lot of contamination in your recycling cart or bin, we may not be able to service it as recycling and may tag it (Oops Tag) to have it serviced as trash (in which case there may be a charge).
Please note that all recyclable items should be
- Empty means making sure there is no food or product residue. Make sure all of that goes into the trash or down the drain as part of the EMPTY process.
- Clean means that empty recyclable containers should be rinsed. So, no mustard in the mustard containers or leftover ketchup in the ketchup bottles. If you cannot get a container completely clean, it is best to put it into the trash so as not to contaminate the rest of your recycling material and the overall process.
- Dry means letting containers dry before placing them in your green container so that the paper and cardboard doesn't get wet. Wet or soiled paper and cardboard cannot be recycled.
Trash Guidelines
Reducing waste is not just a philosophy it's a daily commitment to our customers and community. It's still important to find ways to reduce the amount of waste that is generated. The less we generate, the more sustainable we become. These tips will help you reduce your environmental impact:
Reduce
• Order items with minimal packaging.
• Print, copy and write on both sides of a sheet of paper when possible.
• Use dry-erase boards and overhead projectors for presentations instead of handing out copies.
• Make training manuals and company information available electronically, instead of in printed books and binders.
• Encourage your staff to use reusable coffee mugs, dishes, and utensils.
• Adopt an environmentally preferable purchasing policy.
Reuse
• Use refillable toner cartridges for printers. Non-refillable cartridges contain between two and three pounds of plastic and metal.
• Send documents between offices and departments in reusable envelopes.
• Reuse corrugated boxes for shipping supplies between offices.
• Buy refillable pens and mechanical pencils. Pencils and the outer casings of pens can come in various reclaimed materials, such as recycled newspaper, plastic, rubber, and even recycled dollar bills.
• Use the blank side of printouts as scratch paper or to take notes.
• Use a refillable water bottle instead of single-use plastics.
• Reduce food waste by
o Consume food prior to the expiration date
o Prepare what you plan to eat
o Save leftovers
Donate
• Donate unwanted office supplies to nonprofit organizations, charities, schools, or used materials exchanges.
• Give excess building materials and supplies from renovations to low-income housing developers or non-profits such as Habitat for Humanity.
• Donate cafeteria leftovers.
Christmas tress will be collected on trash collection days through the month of January.
Additionally, the City of Morgantown Public Works Department holds an annual Christmas tree drop-off and collection event during the first two weeks of January. Christmas trees are donated to the Department of Natural Resources to enhance fish habitat in local lakes and reservoirs. Contact the City of Morgantown's Public Works Department at 304-2917465 for more information.
Special & Household Hazardous Waste
Please visit the
Republic Services can accept paint at the curb once the paint is completely dried up. Mixing kitty litter or sawdust in the can of paint will help speed the solidification process. Once paint is dry, place the cans at the curb outside your waste cart, with lids off for visual inspection. Republic Services is not able to accept liquids in solid waste collection.
Medicine and prescription drugs are hazardous and must not go in the trash or be flushed or poured down the drain. Remove any personal information from original containers and find pharmaceutical/medicine take-back locations.
Medical Waste
Pharmacies, medication suppliers, local hospitals, and doctor’s offices often provide disposal options for medical waste such as syringes, needles, or sharps. These items should never be placed loosely in the garbage cart or in your recycle cart.Medications
Residents can dispose of unused or expired medication by purchasing a postage-paid envelope from local pharmacies such as CVS, Walgreens, and Kroger or holding the medication until the next DEA collection event. Controlled substances are excluded from the program. Visit the City of Morgantown's Recycling Guide on local resources to safely dispose of medication.
Needles
Needles should be placed in a sturdy plastic container with a tight-fitting lid such as a laundry detergent bottle. The bottle then needs to be taped shut and labeled syringes, sharps, or needles. The bottle can then be placed in your garbage cart. Do not put this container in your recycle cart.
National prescription drug take-back
The DEA’s Take Back Day events provide an opportunity for the public to safely dispose of prescription medication anonymously. This event is held twice annually at no charge. For information on the dates and locations of this event, visit the
Customer Request for Small Capacity Cart Exchange
(35-gallon)
To qualify for no-charge exchange (not limited to), please choose one of these options on the form below:
1. Senior Citizen (Age/Over 65 - identification will be verified via driver's license or other legal document displaying birth date)
2. Space constraints or limited access to curbside collection (Site visit is required - a brief explanation of storage or curb access issue. Requests will be determined following site visit).
