A-Z List of Recycling and Trash Topics
Several of the entries below are publications in PDF format. In order to view PDF documents, you will need to have Adobe Reader installed on your computer. PDFs are available in alternative formats upon request. Please contact the Solid Waste Management Program at 703-324-5230, TTY 711, to submit your request and allow seven business days for preparation of the material.
See also: Index of Residential Materials
- Administrative Office
- Announcements
- Apartment and Condominium Recycling Requirements
- Auctions of Surplus County Property
- Batteries
- Bicycles
- Books
- Building Supplies
- Business (Nonresidential Properties):
- Buy Recycled Products
- CESQG Program
- Calendar of Events
- Chapter 109.1 (Code of the County of Fairfax)
- Christmas Trees
- Clean Streets Initiative
- Collectors (Solid Waste Collection Companies)
- Complaints about Collection or Disposal Service
- Composting
- Computer Recycling
- Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator Program
- Consignment and Thrift Shops
- Contact Us: Administrative Office, email (see also, Complaints)
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County Customers (residents of Solid
Waste Collection Areas only):
Recycling and Trash Guidelines - Curbside Collection:
- Document Destruction (Shredding)
- Drop-off Centers for Recycling
- Dump (I-95 Landfill Complex)
- Electronics Recycling (computers, peripherals, cell phones)
- Energy Resource/Recovery Facility
- Event Calendar
- Facilities, Disposal and Recycling
- Fees, Trash Disposal
- Fluorescent Light Bulbs
- Forms and Applications for Solid Waste Collection and Disposal
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):
- Future of Solid Waste Management
- Green Sheet, Illustrated Recycling Chart (English, Spanish). See also Residential Recycling Requirements
- Hauling Companies: Private Collectors | County Service
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Hazardous Waste:
- Business
- Household
- Emergency Response Unit (Fire and Rescue Department)
- Hoarding in Your Community
- Hospitals (see Nonresidential Recycling)
- I-66 Transfer Station Complex
- I-95 Landfill Complex
- Illustrated Recycling Chart (English, Spanish). See also Residential Recycling Requirements
- Institutions (see Nonresidential Recycling)
- Leaves: Vacuum Collection
- Litter
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Materials:
- Hazardous Waste, Business
- Hazardous Waste, Household
- Hazardous Waste, Emergency Response Unit (Fire and Rescue Department)
- Recyclables
- Trash - List of Residential Items for Recycling and Disposal
- Materials Recovery Facility Tour
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Medicines
- Disposal of Pills and Liquids
- Disposal of Sharps and Medical Waste
- Mulch, Free of Charge to Fairfax County Residents
- Multifamily Recycling Requirements
- Needles and Syringes
- Nonresidential Recycling (see Business)
- Paint
- Permit Applications for Solid Waste Collection and Disposal
- Petition to Obtain County Collection Service
- Pink Carts and Helping Hearts
- Plastic Bottle and Jug Recycling
- Printer Cartridges
- Private Hauling Companies
- Publications and Forms
- Recyclables, List of Residential Materials (includes Items for Disposal)
- Recyclables, Tour a Materials Recovery Facility
- Recycling Bin, Small, Wheeled Bin for Purchase
- Recycling Collection Companies: Private Collectors | County Service
- Recycling Drop-off Centers
- Recycling Requirements:
- Recycling Statistics, Recycling Rate as a Percentage of Waste Stream
- Recycling and Trash Homepage
- Regulations (Chapter 109.1)
- Schedule a Special Collection of Large and/or Bulky Items or Brush
- School Resources and News
- Single Stream Collection of Recyclables
- Shredding (see Document Destruction)
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Solid Waste:
- Code of the County of Fairfax: Chapter 109.1
- Collection Companies, Private
- Curbside Collection: Private Collection Service | County Service
- List of Waste Materials (Accepted and/or Not Accepted at County Facilities)
- Management Plan
- Pop-up Trash Video (requires media player for viewing)
- Public Forum Meeting Notes
- Special Collection of Large and/or Bulky Items or Brush
- Surplus County Property, Auctions of
- Televisions and Other Electronics
- Thrift Shops and Consignment Shops
- Trash (see "Solid Waste")
- Trash & Recycling Collection Guidelines. Publication is for residents of Solid Waste Collection Areas only.
- Vacuum Leaf Collection
- Videos about Trash and Recycling (require media player for viewing)
- Waste Reduction
- Yard Waste


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