A-Z List of Recycling and Trash Topics
Here is a list of various topics related to recycling and trash. Several of the entries 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.
- Acceptable/Unacceptable Waste
- Administrative Office
- Announcements
- Apartment and Condominium Recycling
- Batteries
- Bicycles
- Books and Media
- Business:
- Buy Recycled Products
- CESQG Program
- Calendar of Events
- Chapter 109.1 (Code of the County of Fairfax)
- Complaints about Collection or Disposal Service
- Composting
- Computer Recycling
- Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator Program
- Consignment and Thrift Shops
- Contact Us: Administrative Office, E-mail (see also, Complaints)
-
County Customers (residents of Solid
Waste Collection Areas only):
Recycling and Trash Guidelines, (Spanish, Korean) - Curbside Collection:
- Document Destruction is offered from time to time at special events. Check the Calendar of Events for the next opportunity.
- Drop-off Centers for Recycling
- 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)
- Hazardous Waste:
- Hoarding in Your Community
- Hospitals (see Nonresidential Recycling)
- I-66 Transfer Station Complex
- I-95 Landfill Complex
- Illustrated Recycling Chart (English, Spanish)
- Inkjet Printer Cartridges
- Institutions (see Nonresidential Recycling)
- Leaves: Vacuum Collection
-
Litter
- Adopt-a-Highway
- Adopt-a-Stream: County Program | State Program
- Clean Fairfax Council
- Materials:
- Materials Recovery Facility Tour
-
Medicines
- Disposal of Pills and Liquids
- Disposal of Sharps and Medical Waste
- Mulch, Free of Charge to Fairfax County Residents
- Multifamily Residential Recycling and Trash
- Nonresidential Recycling
- Online Scheduling of Bulk and Large Item Collection
- Permit Applications for Solid Waste Collection and Disposal
- Petition to Obtain County Collection Service
- Plastic Bottle and Jug Recycling
- Publications and Forms
- Recyclables, Illustrated Chart (English, Spanish)
- Recyclables, List of Materials
- Recyclables, Tour a Materials Recovery Facility
- Recycling Drop-off Centers
- Recycling Requirements:
- Recycling Statistics, Tons Recycled
- Recycling and Trash Homepage
- Regulations (Chapter 109.1)
- School:
- Single Stream Collection of Recyclables
-
Solid Waste:
- Code of the County of Fairfax: Chapter 109.1
- Curbside Collection: County Service | Private Collection 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: 2009 Letter, 2009 Agenda, 2009 Minutes
- Solid Waste Collection Companies
- Special Collection of Large and/or Bulky Items or Brush
- Televisions and Other Electronics
- Thrift Shops and Consignment Shops
- Trash (see "Solid Waste")
-
Trash and Recycling Collection
Guidelines, (Spanish,
Korean).
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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