New rules for special collection of bulk trash
As of July 1, Fairfax County has changed its rules for special pickups of bulk items.
Free special pickups will be limited to two cubic yards – or a collection of materials six feet long by three feet wide by three feet high.
There will be a charge to remove piles greater than two cubic yards – $15 for each extra cubic yard.
The new rules apply only to the 10 percent of county households who have their waste collected by Fairfax County government. However, that includes large numbers of Mason District residents.
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Materials for pickup should be set out on the curb by 6 a.m. on the collection day.
Acceptable materials include:
- Freon – refrigerators, freezers, dehumidifiers, air conditioners.
- Brush – shrubs, tree limbs, and branches up to six feet long.
- Bulk items – furniture, lumber, doors, mattresses, box springs, a roll of carpet up to six feet long, wood pallets.
- Electronics – computers, printers, monitors, keyboards, hard drives, phones, cameras, TVs, portable gaming devices, audio/visual equipment.
- Metal – stoves, washers, dryers, bedframes, lawnmowers (no gas or liquids), metal fencing, grills (no propane tanks), exercise equipment, water heaters.
Anything not on the list won’t be collected. Piles should be separated by type, such as one pile of brush and another pile with metal items.
Residents who have their waste collected by Fairfax County are entitled to five free special pickups per year (July 1-June 30). Schedule a special pickup here.
4 responses to “New rules for special collection of bulk trash”
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Higher taxes and less services? Sounds about right.
Exactly, the County has missed picking up yard waste on my street for three weeks. The street looks like the slums with uncollected trash not being picked up. I'm tempted to take my full yard waste trash container and dump it at Penny's house, This place is certainly earning the name "the DUMP."
Seems to me that this service takes anything you could reasonably expect to be picked up and then more — they take stoves, washers, dryers, furniture, doors, mattresses, AC units, even freon. The pickups are running behind (noted on their website) but otherwise this is a very generous service to residents. I don't see anything to complain about. BTW, yard waste won't be collected in plastic. Must be in paper containers, get them at Home Depot and other places.
You must live next door to Penny, because our trash is not being picked up. And yes we are NOT using plastic bags for our yard waste. Ever since Waste Management implemented the non-plastic bag requirement the service has been terrible. BTW they took the delay out going message off of their call center. Many of bought the yard waste containers and yet they sit at the curb full of yard waste. Yet the yard waste remains. And all those paper bags are shedding every time it rains hard. Then the grass clippings go right down into storm management; very environmental indeed!