Schedule

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	Trash		Recycling	Trash		Yard Waste

 

Trash schedule Monday morning and Thursday morning each week except major holidays. Removal of all trash properly secured in tied plastic bags, standard trash cans, or 96-gallon, wheeled carts placed at the curb by 6 am. Trash bags or containers shall not exceed 50 lbs. per bag or container.

If you have to store your bins in front of your house, please also remember to try to conceal your bins in front of your house as much as possible.

Recycle schedule: Wednesday morning each week except major holidays. Recycling includes all items specified by the County mandates. Newspapers, Magazines, Cardboard, Plastic bottles, Aluminum and Ferrous Metal (Tin) Food cans. NO GLASS.

Glass recycling: For more information about recycling glass in Fairfax County, visit https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/publicworks/recycling-trash/glass. The nearest purple glass recycling bin is at Baron Cameron Park.

Yard waste: Saturday morning pickup each week. All yard waste has to be bundled with string, reasonable length, in a bin or in a paper yard waste bag. NO PLASTIC.

Holiday Service

There is no trash or recycling collection on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, or any other collection day when the refuse and recycling facilities are closed. If a designated collection day falls on one of these holidays, please visit Patriot's Holiday Schedule page to see when your next scheduled pickup will be.

In observance of Memorial Day and Labor Day, Patriot's office is closed however their crews will continue regularly scheduled trash and recycling collection. To ensure collection on these holidays, please be sure to place your containers curbside the night before.

Bulk or Junk Services

Call Patriot Customer Care at 703-257-7100 option #5.

Hazardous Waste

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: toxic, ignitable, corrosive or reactive as defined by the EPA. Household hazardous waste should not be disposed of in the regular trash. As part of Fairfax County, we can bring our hazardous material to the Household Hazardous Waste disposal center on West Ox Rd by I-66 at any time. Check here for more details: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/publicworks/recycling-trash/household-hazardous-waste