Garbage and Household Waste Collection

Virginia Beach Public Works Waste Management is responsible for weekly collection of garbage from Virginia Beach residences.  Garbage pickup occurs on an assigned day designated by your address. You can look up your service day on the Trash and Recycling Lookup tool to see what day of the week your household waste and recycling will be picked up and use the Holiday Schedule to determine which holidays will cause a delay in your garbage pickup.

Curbside trash and recycling services starts when you set up your water service with Public Utilities at 757-385-4631. If your new home does not have trash and recycling carts already there, you may contact Waste Management at 757-385-4650 to purchase them and schedule delivery.

Please follow these guidelines:

• Place cart at curb no later than 7 a.m. on garbage day (or) no earlier than 5 p.m. the day before  
  
• Place at curb on a level surface (no more than 18" from the street or arm's length) 
  
• Cart should be at least 3 feet from all permanent structures. This includes other collection carts, yard bags or bundles, mailboxes, fences, wall, utility poles and other stationary items on the curb. 
  
• Cart's handle must face towards your home
  
• The lid must be closed
  
• Do not over fill the cart
  
• Garbage must be bagged
  
• Do not place cart under low hanging tree branches or overhead wires
  
• Remove cart from collection point after collection
  

To report service problems, please call 385-4650 on your collection day or by noon the following business day.

​​Please do not put the following items ​in your black cart:​

• ​​​Remodeling and building materials, carpet, doors, cabinets, toilets, sinks, rocks, dirt, concrete, vehicle parts, tires, paint cans, glass, propane tanks, hazardous materials.
  
• Please do not dispose of dirt or concrete in your black trash can.  If you don't have a place to use these in your yard, they can be taken to the Virginia Beach Landfill and Resource Recovery Center, where dirt will be used for daily cover and concrete will be crushed into stone for roadbeds.
  

Garbage Can Fee and Warranty

*Refuse containers come with a 10-year warranty. If during that 10-year timeframe the container is damaged, we will repair it free of charge. The warranty does not cover fire damage or theft.

Landstown​ Transfer Station

Monday - Friday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday: 8 a.m. - Noon​
(757) 961-3986
www.SPSA.com

*Please check www.SPSA.com or call 757-961-3986 for operating schedule and closures.​

• To report service problems, please call 385-4650 on your collection day or by noon the following business day.
  

Acceptable Rec​​yclable Mat​erial​

Recycling Guide

• Paper: office paper, newspaper, junk mail, magazines, phone books, paper bags. No shredded paper.
  
• Cardboard & Chipboard: Flattened, Clean & Dry
  
• Plastics Bottles  and Plastic Jugs (i.e., milk jugs & All Bottles: water, soda, shampoo, etc.)
  
• Food & Beverage Cartons (i.e., juice, milk, soy milk, soup, broth, etc.)
• Glass Bottles & Jars.  Empty and Clean
  
• ​Aluminum, Steel, and Tin Bottles and Cans.
  

DO NOT PLACE RECYCLABLES IN PLASTIC BAGS.
DO NOT PLACE BATTERIES OR DEVICES WITH BATTERIES IN YOUR RECYCLING CART AS THEY POSE A SERIOUS FIRE HAZARD. 

Yard Waste is collected year-round on your regular garbage collection day. This service does not require a workorder.

 Branches & Yard Debris

Yard Debris

• Acceptable examples of yard debris: grass clippings, leaves, pine straw, shrub trimmings
• Bag yard debris in clear bags only
• Limit 25 bags per home/per collection day
• Bags cannot exceed 25 lbs. per bag
  

Branches

• Group loose branches into bundles. Tied bundles are preferred but not required.
• Limit two (2) bundles per home/per collection day.
• Limbs up to 4 feet long and 6 inches in diameter will be collected.
• Bundles/Piles cannot exceed 4 x 4 x 4 feet.

 Not accepted in the Yard Waste Service:

• Any work that was done by a contractor (tree and yard debris)
  
• Roots balls, mulch, dirt, rocks will not be collected.
• Animal feces (bagged or unbagged)
  
• No dead animals (or live ones)
• Loose leaves/grass
  

Yard Debris Container Pro​gra​​m

• For larger amounts of yard debris, roll-off containers are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. There is a fee for this service:  $40 for weekdays and $75 for weekends.
  
• The containers measure 13 x 7 x 5 feet.
  
• The container is only to be used for tree limbs less than 6 inches in diameter, leaves, shrubbery, and grass trimmings from the normal upkeep of the immediate perimeter of your occupied dwelling. 
• No clear plastic bags in container.
  
• The container is not intended for debris resulting from clearing of large tracts of land (greater than one-half to one acre), limbs larger than 6 inches in diameter, root balls, sod, hazardous waste, stumps, firewood, concrete, dirt, bricks, landscape timbers, pallets, compost, mulch, building materials, bulky items or debris from vacant lots or waterways. It is not to be used by contractors or loaded with mechanical equipment.
  
• You may schedule the container for a day with AM or PM delivery available. However, trailers delivered on Friday will be picked up on Monday.
  
• Someone at least 18 years old must sign for the trailer when delivered, but need not be home when it is picked up.
  
• Please note that the Landfill does not accept tree removal debris over 6 inches in diameter.
  

Please call 385-4650 well in advance if you wish to schedule a container. This service is not available online.​​​