703-342-6361
TTY 711
Daniel Brooks,
Hazardous Waste Manager
Call the Police Non-Emergency Number: 703-691-2131, TTY 703-877-3715.
Please contact the I-66 Transfer Station (703-631-1179, TTY 711) or the I-95 Landfill Complex (703-690-1703, TTY 711) for specific instructions on disposing of asbestos materials.
Waste cooking oil is accepted every day at the I-66 Transfer Station or the I-95 Landfill Complex. Take cooking oil directly to the Household Hazardous Waste facility for recycling! DO NOT pour cooking oil into the motor oil recycling tanks. Acceptable types of cooking oils include vegetable, peanut, canola, olive, and deep fryer oils. This is NOT intended for fats and grease. Please continue to “can the grease” and dispose of it in the trash. Visit Fats, Oils and Grease for more information. For additional information, call 703-324-5230, TTY 711.
Learn more about Household Hazardous Waste
Household Hazardous Waste accepted at I-66 Transfer Station and I-95 Landfill Complex
Explosives - Call the Police Non-Emergency Number: 703-691-2131, TTY 703-877-3715.
If you have county trash and recycling service, call 703-802-3322, TTY 711 or schedule the collection online. See detailed guidelines in the Trash and Recycling Collection Guidelines for Sanitary Districts. If a private company collects your trash and recyclables, contact them or an alternate junk removal service to arrange for a special collection.
Call the Department of Public Safety Communications at 703-691-2131, TTY 703-877-3715.
Call Health Department Inspections at 703-246-2201, TTY 703-591-6435.
Packaging peanuts can be recycled at some stores. Call 1-800-828-2214, TTY 711 for locations. Dispose of other Styrofoam™ items in trash.
TO REPORT ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES: Visit Calling Non-Emergency or 911 (Department of Public Safety Communications) for instructions.
FREE disposal of household hazardous waste is available to Fairfax County residents only.
Hazardous wastes from businesses are regulated separately and may not be brought to the Household Hazardous Waste Program.
Visit Commercial Hazardous Waste
Learn more about Very Small Quantity Generator program
Residents may take their household hazardous waste to one of the permanent collection sites.
Household hazardous waste refers to used or leftover contents of consumer products that contain materials with one of the four characteristics of a hazardous waste: toxicity, ignitability, corrosivity or reactivity. (See Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Household Hazardous Waste Management for more information.) Household hazardous waste should not be disposed of in the regular trash.
The Fairfax County Household Hazardous Waste Program accepts hazardous materials from residents free of charge and disposes or recycles them according to all local, state and federal regulations.
Household hazardous waste is best managed when it is collected separately from regular municipal solid waste so that it can be sent to facilities capable of properly disposing of hazardous wastes. If handled properly, the likelihood that these potentially-harmful compounds will enter the environment is significantly decreased.
The safest way to dispose of household hazardous wastes is to carefully pack them up and bring them to one of the county's Household Hazardous Waste Collection Sites at I-66 Transfer Station and I-95 Landfill complex.
EnviroPod Episode 8 features Dan Brooks, Assistant Complex Manager, I-66 Transfer Station, and Host Scott Coco, helping residents to dispose of paint, fertilizer, pesticides and other Household Hazardous Waste by bringing these leftover items to the I-95 Landfill in Lorton or to the I-66 Transfer Station on West Ox Road, where Dan and his colleagues dispose of these noxious chemicals in environmentally friendly ways.
