AAA Recycling/Trash Removal and Single Stream Recycling
AAA Recycling and Trash Removal Services hauls its residential recycling to recycling centers in Northern Virginia that accepts single stream recycling materials. In most cases, our recycling is collected in rear-load residential compactor trucks, which are identical to those used in collecting rear-load residential trash.
Single stream recycling allows all the acceptable recycle materials to be mixed together in one collection container at the curb. The commingled recycling is then hauled away as single stream recycling. A recycling center must be equipped to handle commingled recycling that is single streamed. The recycling materials are then sorted by the type of recyclables at the recycling centers.
AAA wants to increase the overall recycling efforts by communities, by removing the need for its residential customers to have to sort their recycling at the curb.
Currently AAA provides curbside recycling collection for all plastics #1-7, cans, glass bottles and jars, and mixed paper.
Acceptable Curbside Recycling Items:
• junk mail
• magazines
• catalogs
• newspapers
• phone books
• cereal and cracker boxes
• flattened cardboard
• AAA would prefer (3ft x 3 ft).
Unacceptable Items Curbside Recycling Items:
• light bulbs
• ceramic dishes
• cookware
• pizza boxes
• plastic or wax coated paper (milk cartons)
• hardcover books
• styrofoam
• plastic bags
• aluminum foil or foil pie pans
• yogurt/margarine tubs or similar items
Please check back frequently for a list of newly accepted recyclables. Visit the following links listed for your county to get specifics:
Fairfax County Recycling
Prince William
Loudoun Recycling
Currently, AAA is offering RecycleBank rewards in some service areas. Please visit our website or www.RecycleBank.com for more information. This program is exclusive to AAA and is designed to help increase recycling efforts and improve our environment.
Click here to view the single stream recycling process in action.