2024 Trash & Recycling Services
There is no trash pickup on these holidays:
- Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 28, 2024
- Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day
- Service will resume on the next scheduled pickup day for each holiday.
Bates Trucking is the current contract holder (as of January 2021) 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 and yard debris collection on Thursdays only. Recyclables should not be put in plastic bags, only loosely placed inside the bin. Please make sure trash is placed in covered trash cans at the curb on the garage side of your home, the night before pickup. Receptacle bins must be taken in on the day of pickup. Materials recycled are aluminum, plastics, and newspapers. For recycled items, please note that cardboard boxes must be broken down, no plastic bags or plastic packing material allowed (these can be taken to local grocery stores like Harris Teeter or thrown away) and no glass. Click here for what is and is not permitted. Glass recycling must to be dropped off at special glass-only bins, locations linked here. Yard debris must be bagged in brown paper bags (up to 6 paper bags) and/or cut into 4ft length bundles and tied securely (up to 3 tied bundles).
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 addressed in pdf Policy Resolution 2008-06 - Trash Policy.
Bates Trucking will not pick up the following items:
- Flammable products
- Propane/oxygen/helium tanks, or items containing gas or oil,
- Oil, paint cans
- Lead, acid/wet cell batteries,
- Toxic materials, bio-hazardous materials, or waste
- Auto parts, tires
- Railroad ties
- Construction material
- Dirt, stone, rock, brick, or sand
- Explosives, live ammunition, or weapons
- Manure, tree stumps
- Animal carcasses, large amounts of animal waste
- Oversized brush, (longer than 4ft in length or 6 inches in diameter cannot be safely loaded by our crews for removal or any items that may damage their hauling equipment
Residents can email cameronstation@batestrucking.com for information about bins. 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 brown paper bags or tied in bundles no longer than 4ft. 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.
Appliance Removal Schedule
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 may 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 Bate Trucking's Customer Service Department at 703-212-9395, dial 1 for bulk items.
Click here for Glass recycling
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
- 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.
- NEVER put in your recycling bin bags, phones, diapers, food, foam, clothes, cables/lights, wrappers.
- Always put in your recycling bin Rigid Containers, Cans, Cardboard & paper.
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: 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.
**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 are typically collected the second and third Monday in January. All tinsel and decorations must be removed. Do not put trees in plastic bags.
Inclement Weather: 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.
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