diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index b42f8f3..17205f0 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@
         "symfony/flex": "^1.3.1",
         "symfony/framework-bundle": "5.0.*",
         "symfony/http-client": "5.0.*",
-        "symfony/yaml": "5.0.*",
-        "tightenco/collect": "^7.9"
+        "symfony/yaml": "5.0.*"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer": "^0.6.2",
@@ -27,7 +26,11 @@
         "preferred-install": {
             "*": "dist"
         },
-        "sort-packages": true
+        "sort-packages": true,
+        "allow-plugins": {
+            "dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer": true,
+            "symfony/flex": true
+        }
     },
     "autoload": {
         "psr-4": {
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 6e3ce19..56706e8 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "26de4f5e139e29ab9d3d46f19c4efef9",
+    "content-hash": "75247b438442805edb4e7da9fc2e78ba",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "illuminate/collections",
@@ -2590,56 +2590,6 @@
                 }
             ],
             "time": "2020-05-20T17:38:26+00:00"
-        },
-        {
-            "name": "tightenco/collect",
-            "version": "v7.26.1",
-            "source": {
-                "type": "git",
-                "url": "https://github.com/tighten/collect.git",
-                "reference": "5e460929279ad806e59fc731e649e9b25fc8774a"
-            },
-            "dist": {
-                "type": "zip",
-                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/tighten/collect/zipball/5e460929279ad806e59fc731e649e9b25fc8774a",
-                "reference": "5e460929279ad806e59fc731e649e9b25fc8774a",
-                "shasum": ""
-            },
-            "require": {
-                "php": "^7.1.3",
-                "symfony/var-dumper": "^3.4 || ^4.0 || ^5.0"
-            },
-            "require-dev": {
-                "mockery/mockery": "^1.0",
-                "nesbot/carbon": "^2.23.0",
-                "phpunit/phpunit": "^7.0"
-            },
-            "type": "library",
-            "autoload": {
-                "files": [
-                    "src/Collect/Support/helpers.php",
-                    "src/Collect/Support/alias.php"
-                ],
-                "psr-4": {
-                    "Tightenco\\Collect\\": "src/Collect"
-                }
-            },
-            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
-            "license": [
-                "MIT"
-            ],
-            "authors": [
-                {
-                    "name": "Taylor Otwell",
-                    "email": "taylorotwell@gmail.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "description": "Collect - Illuminate Collections as a separate package.",
-            "keywords": [
-                "collection",
-                "laravel"
-            ],
-            "time": "2020-09-05T00:05:48+00:00"
         }
     ],
     "packages-dev": [
diff --git a/src/EventRepository.php b/src/EventRepository.php
index 67abfa9..23b0e02 100644
--- a/src/EventRepository.php
+++ b/src/EventRepository.php
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 namespace App;
 
-use Tightenco\Collect\Support\Collection;
+use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
 
 interface EventRepository
 {
diff --git a/src/Meetup/MeetupEventRepository.php b/src/Meetup/MeetupEventRepository.php
index c06004d..d2a58f2 100644
--- a/src/Meetup/MeetupEventRepository.php
+++ b/src/Meetup/MeetupEventRepository.php
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 namespace App\Meetup;
 
 use App\EventRepository;
+use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
 use Symfony\Contracts\HttpClient\HttpClientInterface;
-use Tightenco\Collect\Support\Collection;
 
 final class MeetupEventRepository implements EventRepository
 {
diff --git a/symfony.lock b/symfony.lock
index 8ec85a6..e13f727 100644
--- a/symfony.lock
+++ b/symfony.lock
@@ -309,9 +309,6 @@
     "theseer/tokenizer": {
         "version": "1.2.1"
     },
-    "tightenco/collect": {
-        "version": "v7.9.2"
-    },
     "webmozart/assert": {
         "version": "1.10.0"
     }
diff --git a/tests/EventRepositoryContractTest.php b/tests/EventRepositoryContractTest.php
index 6c5405e..45fb1ae 100644
--- a/tests/EventRepositoryContractTest.php
+++ b/tests/EventRepositoryContractTest.php
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 namespace App\Tests;
 
 use App\EventRepository;
-use Tightenco\Collect\Support\Collection;
+use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
 
 trait EventRepositoryContractTest
 {
diff --git a/tests/Fake/FakeEventRepository.php b/tests/Fake/FakeEventRepository.php
index 5ab9ce2..dba2cce 100644
--- a/tests/Fake/FakeEventRepository.php
+++ b/tests/Fake/FakeEventRepository.php
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ declare(strict_types=1);
 namespace App\Tests\Fake;
 
 use App\EventRepository;
-use Tightenco\Collect\Support\Collection;
+use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
 
 final class FakeEventRepository implements EventRepository
 {