Trash & Recycling Collection

• American Disposal Appliance Removal Schedule
• List of Acceptable Items for Recycling
• Trash Removal Restrictions

CSCA has a contract with American Disposal Services (ADS) for the collection of household trash and recycling materials. This service is part of your assessment fee. Trash collection is every Monday and Thursday with recycling collection on Thursdays only.Please make sure trash is placed in covered trashcans at the curb on the garage side of your home. (The homeowner is responsible for purchasing their own trashcans. Please call ADS for a recycling bin at (703) 368-0500. Materials recycled are glass (all colors), aluminum, plastics, and newspapers. All may be co-mingled in the container, with the exception of newspapers. Please bundle these separately and place the bundle on top or to the side of the container on collection day. ADS will also provide special pick-ups for large bulky items, furniture, and moving boxes. There is no additional charge for special collections except for the disposal of appliances. Special pick-ups of large items must be scheduled in advance by calling ADS.

Please be reminded that each homeowner is responsible for providing their own trash receptacle with a lid and that all trash must be placed within a covered trash receptacle. Trash in plastic bags or other containers, including but not limited to paper bags and boxes, are not permitted at curbside, except yard debris, which must be bagged in clear plastic bags or brown paper bags. Trash and recycling containers should not be placed at curbside until the evening before collection. After collection, all receptacles must be removed from public view and stored within an enclosed or screened area so as not to be visible from any street or Single Family Lot or Cluster Housing Lot on the same evening as the day of collection.

Homeowners should make sure all trash receptacles are secured with a lid before placing them curbside. During high winds, trash and debris can be blown about the community. Residents should bundle items such as paper and cardboard boxes so they do not blow out of the recycling bin. Residents are encouraged to mark their recycling bins and trash can with their house number so that it may be returned should it blow away and to discourage pilfering.

Cameron Station rules and regulations regarding trash and recycling are address in Policy Resolution 2008-06 - Trash Policy.

American Disposal Appliance Removal Schedule

American Disposal's scheduled pickup for appliances will be every Thursday.The removal of ferrous metals/white goods such as stoves, washers, dryers, hot water tanks, and other bulky metallic items will need to be called into the office 24 hours in advance for scheduling. Refrigerators, freezers, and air conditioning units must have refrigerants removed and tagged by a certified technician before they are collected. There will be an additional charge for the removal of these items. Special pickups such as furniture, mattresses, and other non-metallic household items will still be collected on the 2nd pickup day of the week.

White goods are taken to a separate disposal site where they are recycled. Keep in mind recycling goods is environmentally friendly. Recycling these items conserves energy, natural resources, and reduces air and water pollution.

If you have any questions to the above information or would like to schedule a white good/appliance pickup, please contact American Disposal’s Customer Service Department at (703) 368-0500, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Recycling Acceptable Items

Non‐Fiber Items

• Aluminum cans and Beverage Containers
• Ferrous and Bimetal Food and Beverage Containers
• Tin and steel cans
• All Narrow‐neck Plastic Container (other than for motor oil) which carry plastic Resin codes 1‐7
• Aerosol Cans (empty)
• Aluminum foil and Aluminum Pie Pans
• Glass bottles and jars
• Plastic bottles and jugs
• Wide‐mouth plastic containers such as peanut butter, yogurt, margarine/butter tubs, cottage cheese, sour cream, whipped topping, and mayonnaise
• Rigid Plastics which include plastic milk/soda crates, plastic buckets with metal handles, plastic laundry baskets, plastic lawn furniture, plastic totes, plastic drums, plastic coolers, plastic flower pots, plastic drinking cups/glasses, plastic 5‐gallon water bottles, plastic pallets, plastic toys and empty plastic garbage and recycling bins.
• Bagged Plastic Film (for example: grocery bags, shrink wrap, dry‐cleaner bags, bubble wrap and other flexible plastic packaging) all contained within one tied‐closed grocery bag

Fiber Items

• Brown paper bags
• Cardboard and corrugated boxes
• Catalogs, magazines and phone books
• Chipboard/paperboard (cereal boxes, shoe boxes, frozen food packaging paper & toilet paper towel rolls, tissues boxes without plastic, and soda can boxes, etc.)
• Office Paper, including Colored, Computer, fax, copy and letterhead, White ledger paper and Envelopes
• Newspapers and junk mail
• Books (including paperbacks, textbooks, and hardbacks)
• Non‐Metallic wrapping paper
• Aseptic/Gable‐Top Milk and Juice Cartons

Trash Removal Restrictions

Due to landfill regulations the following items will NOT be collected by American Disposal Services or AAA Recycling and Trash Removal Services: dead rodents, oil, paint, stains, or other liquids, batteries, construction or remodeling material, manure, tree stumps, mulch, sod, dirt, stone, rocks, cement, bricks, poisons, dangerous acids, caustics, explosives or other dangerous material or items too large or heavy to be loaded in collection vehicles safely by the refuse collectors.

2012 Winter/Holiday Service Schedule

Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25, 2012: Falls on a Tuesday. There will be no interruption in service.

New Years Day, Sunday, January 1, 2012: Falls on a Tuesday. There will be no interruption in service.

**On make-up days, crews come through neighborhoods earlier than normal, please make sure that your items are put out the night before. **

Christmas tree Collection: Single family and multi-dwelling attached homes, Christmas trees will be collected the 1^st two Wednesdays in January. All tinsel and decorations must be removed. Do not put trees in plastic bags.

Inclement Weather: Safety in the community is a primary concern for American Disposal Services. Roads and/or areas that are deemed unsafe due to snow or ice will be suspended for collection. If suspension occurs, services will be resume on the next regularly scheduled collection day.

Alexandria Hazardous Waste Facility and Electronics Collection

The Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) and Electronics Collection and recycling drop-off center is located at 3224 Colvin Street. As a reminder, the HHW & Electronic Collection site is open every Monday and Saturday (except holidays) from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The recycling drop-off center is open 24 hours per day, seven days a week. For more information, visit www.alexandriava.gov/SolidWaste or call (703) 746-4410.