Trash: Every Monday and Thursday*

Recycling Every Monday*

 

The trucks begin their route at 6:00 AM. The trucks normally maintain the same route each pickup day. However, the amount of trash varies from day to day, and other factors may impact the routes, making it difficult to guarantee a pick-up time. To be assured of pickup, your trash must be out by 6:00 AM. We encourage you to place the trash out the night before, after dusk if possible. No more than 5 bags can be picked up from any one residence in a single day.

 

*There is no trash service on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Collection will be cancelled on days when the weather has made the roads unsafe due to ice and snow. There will be no makeup and trash will be collected on the next scheduled day.

 

In accordance with the Prince William County Code and the Westridge Guidelines, trash is to be placed in a sealed, secure container. This means a covered barrel or covered trashcan or a wheeled cart provided by American Disposal. Containers should be placed at curb side in front of your residence. Please do not pile the trash in front of the mailboxes. American Disposal is not responsible for trash that is scattered from containers or bags by weather or animals.

 

All of the single-family homes as well as the homes in the Highland Chase and Knightsbridge townhome neighborhoods have been provided with a wheeled trash cart. Residents of the Wimbley, Devonwood and Lakeview townhome neighborhoods and the Somerset Condominiumare responsible for providing their own trash container. Each home in Westridge has been provided with a recycle bin. Trash carts and recycle bins are the property of American Disposal and are to remain in the property for the new residents when you move. Remember you are responsible for the care and cleaning of your trash cart and recycle bin.

 

If your trash cart or recycle bin is in need of repair or replacement, please call American Disposal at 703-368-0500. To replace a lost or stolen trash cart or recycle bin, please contact the Westridge Clubhouse at 703-590-1600.

 

Removal of large items, appliances, furniture, moving boxes and other bulky items that your family does not generate on a weekly basis need to be scheduled for pickup forty eight hours in advance by calling American Disposal at 703-368-0500. Items should be placed at curb side the day of or the evening before the scheduled pick-up day.

 

The following items will not be picked up by American Disposal.

 

• Oil, paint, dead animals, construction materials, dirt, toxic or flammable items, batteries;

• Packing peanuts that are not secured in a bag;

• Tree stumps from trees larger than six inches in diameter;

• Logs from fallen or cut down trees;

• Any item that cannot be safely loaded and hauled away.

 

 

 

 

The following items may be commingled in the same recycling container. Please do not use plastic bags for recycling.

• Aluminum cans, aluminum foil & trays rinsed and cleaned, metal food & beverage cans

• Clear & colored glass, #1 through #7

• Plastics bottles, wide mouth plastic containers and rigid plastics

• Newspapers, mixed paper, junk mail, magazines, phone books and catalogs

• Empty aerosol cans

• Cardboard boxes must be broken down and flattened no bigger than 3X3 feet. For larger cardboard boxes i.e. moving boxes, they must be cut down to 3X3 feet and flattened

 

Unacceptable recycling items: plastic food trays and cups, clam-shell containers, light bulbs, glassware, ceramics, pots and pans, paper plates and napkins, batteries, Styrofoam cups, plates, bowls and to go food containers.

 

 

 

Brush: Secure in bundles up to two feet in diameter and cut up to four-foot lengths.

Yard debris: Place in disposable plastic bags.

 

Christmas trees will be collected on Thursdays. All tinsel and decorations must be removed. Trees should not be placed in plastic bags.