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Weekly curbside recycling collection to resume in Columbia

KOMU 8 · last updated

The Columbia Solid Waste Utility announced Monday that weekly curbside recycling pickup will resume in the city on June 15.

According to a Facebook post from Columbia Recycle and Trash, residents will be able to place their recycling materials at the curb on their regular collection days.

Recycling pickup was halted in April 2025 after an EF1 tornado destroyed Columbia’s Material Recovery Facility where recycling was sorted.

Since then, officials have rebuilt parts of the system through a partnership with a recycling operation in Jefferson City, which now helps sort and move material to a processing center in Illinois.

Earlier this month, the city closed its bidding process for a new recycling facility.

The expected $3.6 million cost for the building will be covered by the Solid Waste Utility Capital Funds. However, the project’s total is expected to be $21.1 million, according to a study carried out by RRT Design & Construction.

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