Recycling and Refuse Collection
CITY CURBSIDE RECYCLING/REFUSE COLLECTION
The Public Works Department offers recycling/refuse collection service to City residents and businesses. The service includes two household refuse pickups per week, a weekly recycling pickup, and a free recycling bin. Items followed by a * in the list below under Belman Road Recycling Center will be accepted at the curb for recycling. Approximately 3,000 customers are currently served. To obtain recycling/refuse collection service and related information, please contact the Utility Billing Office.
Refuse Collection Practices and Policies Study (June 2007)
SPECIAL CLEANUP EVENTS
Spring and fall Community Pride Weeks are great opportunities to clean up City yards and neighborhoods. During these weeks, the Public Works Department collects certain types of materials (e.g., appliances, brush, building materials, furniture, mattresses, scrap materials, tires) from special dumpsters located throughout the City.
Earth Day is in April each year, but you can celebrate everyday by recycling! Log on to www.r-board.org to find a recycling center near you.
Household Hazardous Waste Collection Days are held each spring and fall at the Belman Road Recycling Center (1200 Belman Road) and the Regional Landfill and Recycling Center (489 Eskimo Hill Road). The Public Works Department also holds summer and winter Curbside Bulk Collections for items such as appliances, Christmas trees, and furniture.
There is no trash collection on the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day. Alternate collection schedules will be posted each holiday on this website, in The Free Lance-Star, on Cox Channel 24, or you may call 372-1023 for your alternate collection day.
TRASH COLLECTION GUIDELINES
- Trash must be ready for collection no earlier than 7:00 a.m. on collection days. Collection day is based on address. Call the Public Works office (372-1023) for collection day for your address.
- Trash may not be placed or stored at curb on non-collection days.
- Trash placed out for collection must be in bags, boxes, or bagged within trash containers with lids. Residents must promptly remove trash containers from curbside after collection has been made.
- After collection, and on non-collection days, trash containers must be stored out of view from the street. All outdoor trash storage containers must have secure lids.
- Trash bags must not weigh more than 30 pounds. Boxes must not weigh more than 50 pounds.
- Sharp refuse, such as glass and syringes, must be placed into protective containers before discarding. Milk jugs or 2 liter soda bottles work well for syringes. Cardboard boxes marked “GLASS” work well for broken shards of glass.
- Limbs must be bundled. Bundles must be less than 4 feet long and 2 feet in diameter and tied securely with rope or twine.
- Latex Paint cans must be emptied (or allowed to dry until completely solid) and placed inside bags or containers.
Items Acceptable for Trash Collection
- Up to 5 bags of trash, each bag 30 pounds or less.
- Up to 2 cardboard boxes of trash, each weighing 50 pounds or less and smaller than 8 cubic feet in size.
- Up to 2 bundles of limbs. Each bundle less than 4 feet long and 2 feet in diameter.
Examples of Items Not Acceptable For Trash Collection
(The City reserves the right to refuse collection of any item deemed inappropriate for household trash collection)
- Loose household trash or unbagged trash.
- Hazardous waste (including paints and insecticides)
- Appliances, furniture, mattresses, and other bulk items.
- Brush, stumps, logs, etc.
- Building materials such as lumber, metal, blocks, concrete, gravel, soil, drywall, etc.
- Ammunition
- Plate Glass or syringes, unless placed inside a protective container.
BELMAN ROAD RECYCLING CENTER
Available only to City of Fredericksburg and Stafford County residents, the Recycling Center [hours; map] is located on Belman Road (behind the City Shop). Commercial vehicles are not allowed. The Recycling Center is operated by the Rappahannock Regional Solid Waste Management Board. For additional information, please call 540-658-4590 Monday-Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Directions
Follow the Blue & Gray Parkway to Belman Road (located between Lafayette Boulevard and Dixon Street); turn onto Belman Road; and proceed straight ahead, approximately a quarter-mile, until you see the Belman Road Recycling Center entrance on the right side.
Monday – Friday: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Sunday: 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Closed on these holidays: New Year's Day, Easter Sunday, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.
Items Accepted
Recyclable items accepted curbside in the City are marked with a *.
Recyclable items accepted at the Belman Road Recycling Center:
(for a print-friendly list, click here)
- Aluminum (e.g., beer and soda cans, foil, pie plates)*
- Electronics
- Glass (brown, clear, and green) (* No plates, windows, mirrors, drinking glasses, light bulbs and NO broken glass at the curb)
- Motor oil
Paper: "anything that tears" (e.g., dry newspaper*, paper bags, office/copy/printer paper (shredded or whole), wrapping paper, memo pads and envelopes, junk mail*, magazines* and catalogs, ad circulars and TV guides, phone books* and notebooks, cardboard, cereal boxes*, toilet paper/paper towel cores or tubes, paper backs and hard backed books, shoe boxes, milk and juice cartons. No shredded paper at the curb. Residents must ensure paper products do not blow out of curbside bins).
Plastic: #1 - #7, look for the number on the bottom of the container (e.g., milk jugs, water or soda bottles, mayonnaise jars, party cups, yogurt/cottage cheese/margarine/butter/dip containers, but NOT packing peanuts or plastic bags)*
- Scrap metal*
- Steel/tin cans, and aerosol cans* (e.g., soup, vegetable, and pet food cans)
Sorry - no food-soiled items, carbon paper, packing peanuts or other packing materials, windows, drinking glasses, mirrors, or motor oil bottles at the curb.
Other items accepted for recycling at the Belman Road Recycling Center:
- Antifreeze
Batteries: auto and household dry cell - Building materials
- CDs and DVDs (clear CD cases, too)
- Cell phones
- Eye glasses
- Flourescent Bulbs
- Ink cartridges
- Mercury switches and thermostats
- Mixed containers and mixed paper
- Pallets
- Plastics - large items, including milk/soda crates, buckets with metal handles, laundry baskets, flower pots, molded lawn furniture, storage totes, coolers, 5-gallon water bottles, empty garbage cans and recycling bins, toys
- Propane tanks
Working electronics and small appliances - Motor oil
- Scrap metal
- Shopping bags contained in one bag or stretch film/shrink wrap contained in one bag
Brush and yard waste, including leaves and Christmas trees Textiles: “gently used” clothing, sheets and blankets (no mattresses), towels, table linens, and curtains - Tires
REGIONAL LANDFILL AND RECYCLING CENTER
The Regional Landfill and Recycling Center [directions; hours; landfill layout; map] is located at 489 Eskimo Hill Road in Stafford County. As a cooperative venture between the City of Fredericksburg and Stafford County; the Center is operated and carefully monitored by the Rappahannock Regional Solid Waste Management Board (R-Board) for the benefit and use of Fredericksburg and Stafford residents.
The Regional Landfill and Recycling Center accepts various recyclable refuse materials. For additional information on recyclable materials, please contact the Recycling Center, (540) 658-4590. For information on business recycling, privately-run recycling facilities, public education programs, recycling activities, recycling and litter-control projects, recycling markets, recycling programs, and waste reduction, please contact the Recycling Coordinator, (540) 658-8680. For information on environmental education programs or to schedule a landfill tour, please call (540) 658-4579.
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