Trash & Recycling

Patriot Disposal is the Association’s Trash Collection service provider and is under contract until 2027 and includes twice-per-week trash collection and once-per-week recycling.

Phone: 1(703) 257-7100 and Fax: 1(703) 368-1469

Postal Address: PO Box 3219, Manassas, VA, 20108

Regular Trash Collection occurs Mondays & Thursdays from 6 a.m. – 6 p.m. 

Regular Recycling occurs Mondays only from 6 a.m. – 6 p.m. 

Yard Waste Collection, Mondays – March 1 to December 31 (Yard waste placed at the curb in January & February is disposed of as trash.)

Bulk &/or Special Pick-up – Items must be scheduled with Patriot Disposal 1 (703) 257-7100.  Please send an email to Covenants@afhoa.net to notify the Association that your special pick-up has been scheduled and include the date of the pick-up.

Loudoun County Regulations prohibit the collection of the following:

Liquids of any kind, asbestos, ammunition, fuel tanks, hazardous waste, infectious or medical waste, petroleum-contaminated soils, radioactive waste, dead animals, manure, acids, caustics, explosives, or other dangerous items, or any items too large or too heavy to be safely loaded.

Liquids of any kind, asbestos, ammunition, fuel tanks, hazardous waste, infectious or medical waste, petroleum-contaminated soils, radioactive waste, dead animals, manure, acids, caustics, explosives, or other dangerous items, or any items too large or too heavy to be safely loaded.

Holiday Schedule

There will be no curbside collection of trash, recycling, or yard waste if the regular service day falls on New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas day, or any other day that the landfill and recycling facilities are closed.  

Loudoun County Landfill Holiday Schedule

Inclement Weather

Patriot Disposal will make every effort to serve the community on regular collection days (Monday & Thursday) but will suspend service if snow, ice, or other weather conditions jeopardize safety. If the collection service is suspended, the collection will resume on the next regularly scheduled collection day. The Association will announce suspension of service as quickly as possible, please sign up for email notifications.

Ashburn Farm Trash & Recycling Policy

• Loudoun County & Ashburn Farm Association require rigid containers with lids for storage and collection of household trash and recycling; therefore, trash & recycling must be kept in hard-sided containers with attached lids.

• Trash or recycling cannot be set at the curbside until after 6:00PM the night before collection but should be placed at the curb the night before pickup to ensure collection.

• Trash must be secured tied trash bags that are tied securely and placed inside hard-sided trashcans, or trash toters.

• Trash &/or recycling container(s) should be removed from the curb and stored properly at the earliest opportunity on the same day as trash & recycling pickup.

• Recycling should not be in trash bags, clear or other, but must be stored and placed curbside in a hard-sided container with an attached lid that is securely closed that prevent blowing, spillage, littering, etc. Boxes must be broken down.

• Loose trash bags, or grocery bags from stores such as Giant, Harris Teeter, etc. are not to be used as trash or recycling disposal bags.

• All homeowners are responsible for picking up litter on his/her property and preventing wind-blown debris from originating on his/her property.

Together, the cooperative effort will help maintain an aesthetically pleasing community to the benefit of all property owners.

Storage of Trash and Recycling

Single-Family

Storage of trash and recycling containers must be on one’s own property, in the garage, or behind the rear plane of the home against the structure. Storage of these containers in front or beside the house or garage is not acceptable and is a violation. Fully obscured trash or recycling containers stored beside a single-family home, or end unit townhome, if fully obscured by evergreen or other year-round screening and are not readily visible from the street/driveway apron will be permitted. This storage option requires an application to be submitted to the Association and approved by the Architectural Review Board. If property fencing extends on the side of the home structure, the containers may be stored behind the fence against the side of the house or garage. Homes with pipestem driveways must place trash at the nearest street with a curb when setting trash or recycling out for collection.

Townhome

Storage of these containers in front or beside the house, or outside of the property line fencing is not acceptable and is a violation. Fully obscured trash or recycling containers stored beside a single-family home, or end unit townhome, if fully obscured by evergreen or other year-round screening and are not readily visible from the street/driveway apron will be permitted.  This storage option requires an application to be submitted to the Association and approved by the Architectural Review Board. Homes with pipestem driveways must place trash at the nearest street with a curb when setting trash or recycling out for collection.

Trash & Recycling Collection

Ashburn Farm Association is committed to keeping the community clean, using a high-quality, reliable trash collection service. 

Association trash collection service includes:

• Twice weekly trash collection is on Mondays & Thursdays

• The Association does not assess Townhome Owners for trash containers due to storage preferences, which is why refuse containers are not provided to townhomes.  Residents in the townhome neighborhoods must purchase their own container that complies with the Loudoun County Solid Waste Ordinance and the Association’s Trash Storage and Curbing Policies. 

Recycling & Recycling Collection

Recycling is especially important to the health of our environment. On January 1, 2018, the largest recycling market reduced the acceptable amount of contamination to 0.5%. These new limitations have hindered recycling in the United States. Contaminants include plastic bags, food waste, loose shredded paper, non-recyclable plastics, and more. The US currently exports one-third of its recycled materials—how are trash haulers and localities handling the excess waste? Unfortunately, much of this waste ends up in local landfills or in large containers in shipping yards around the country.

What can I do?

 The best practice to ensure as much as possible is recycled is to ensure the correct recycling of materials and ensuring all recyclables are clean when placed in your recycling container.

What can be recycled?  Newspaper, Magazines & Catalogs, Most Plastic Containers, Flattened/Broken-Down Cardboard, and Aluminum Cans.

Loudoun County Recycling Guide How to Recycle Specific Materials

• Loudoun County launched a pilot glass recycling program in July 2020 at the county’s recycling drop-off centers in Hamilton, Leesburg, and Sterling. The county has now expanded the program to three additional sites: Arcola, Middleburg, and Philomont. Glass bottles and jars are now being collected separately at the:
• Arcola Recycling Center, 24244 Stone Springs Boulevard, Arcola
• Central Western Loudoun Recycling Center, 38159 Colonial Highway, Hamilton
• Landfill Recycling Center, 21101 Evergreen Mills Road, Leesburg
• Mickie Gordon Park Recycling Center, 23229 Carters Farm Lane, Middleburg
• Philomont Recycling Center, 36560 Jeb Stuart Road, Philomont
• Sterling Park Recycling Center, 400 W Laurel Avenue, Sterling

Visitors to the recycling center will see large purple bins labeled “Glass Recycling,” where glass bottles and jars are to be placed. Please follow these guidelines:

• Only glass bottles and jars are accepted.
• The glass bottles and jars must be empty and rinsed out.
• No lids or caps. 
• Deposit bottles and jars loosely in the recycling containers provided, not in bags. 

The program is designed to increase recycling opportunities for glass. Glass that is commingled with other recyclable materials at the point of collection requires additional processing not currently available at local facilities and results in disposal of the glass as waste or otherwise limits the extent to which the glass can be recycled. The glass bottles and jars collected in the purple bins at the county’s recycling drop-off centers are delivered to Fairfax County to be used in construction projects and may also be sent to other facilities that are able to recycle it into new glass bottles and other products.

What cannot be recycled? Garbage / Food waste, Food-tainted items (such as used paper plates or boxes, paper towels, or paper napkins), Ceramics and Kitchenware or Kitchen Appliances, Windows/Mirrors, Plastic Cling Wrap, Packing Peanuts/Bubble-wrap, Wax Boxes/Paper, Photographs, Medical Waste, Polystyrene/Styrofoam, Hazardous Chemicals/Chemical Containers, Plastic Toys, Sporting Equipment, Foam Egg Carton Material, Wood, Light Bulbs, Lawn & Garden Tools/Machinery.

Association Recycling Service Includes:

• Weekly curbside pickup on Mondays.
• Single-stream recycling.  All recyclable items go into one container.

YARD WASTE

Maintaining your landscape can be demanding and create debris that needs disposal.  Simply bag up grass clippings, leaves, brush, or hedge trimmings in paper yard waste bags or a personal yard waste container and leave it on the curb on collection day and the Association’s trash collection service will do the rest. We know you work hard to maintain your landscaping and are happy to help you clean up.

​Yard waste collection service includes:​

• Weekly collection from March 1st through December 24th of up to 10 bags, bundles, or containers not to exceed 50 pounds each.
• Per county ordinance, Loudoun County residents are prohibited from using clear plastic bags for yard waste. Loudoun County residents must use brown paper bags or a personal container for yard waste collection.

What is Yard Waste?  Yard waste is defined as grass clippings, leaves, or bush/hedge trimmings resulting from normal maintenance of your yard. Please place your yard waste on the curb in brown paper yard waste bags or un-bagged in a personal container clearly marked ‘yard waste’ on both sides of the container. Patriot Disposal will also accept tree trimmings so long as it is cut into four-foot lengths, with each limb or piece of brush no larger than four inches in diameter and tied in small bundles with rope or twine. The final dimensions of each tied bundle of pruning debris can be no larger than four feet long, two feet in diameter, must weigh 50 lbs or less, and contain nothing larger than four inches in diameter.

Residents of Loudoun County are prohibited from using clear plastic bags for yard waste per county ordinance. Instead, they must use brown paper bags or personal containers to collect yard waste.  Yard waste bagged in clear plastic bags will not be collected.  Plastic bags are not biodegradable and lead to collection and composting machinery issues.

​Special Pick-up & Bulk Items

Are you cleaning out your house, replacing furniture or appliances, and do not know what to do with the items you are replacing? Things such as TVs, tires, grills, water heaters, lawnmowers, computers, filing cabinets, portable basketball goals, car batteries, used motor or cooking oil, toilets, or exercise equipment, construction debris, carpeting, trees, dirt, rocks, bricks, swing/playsets, wood, cabinets & furniture cannot simply be placed at the curb for collection but can be collected by Patriot Disposal if a special pick-up is requested.  Special pickups operate on a per-request basis and do not run on the same schedule as your standard curbside collection. If you have any questions or wish to request a special pick-up, Patriot Disposal; additional charges may apply.

Loudoun County Landfill Services

Free Mulch Depot

• Free mulch is available to residents on a first-come, first-served basis year-round.
• The mulch loading area is in the Loudoun County Recycling Drop-off Center next to the pavilion that contains the used motor oil and antifreeze tanks.
• The mulch weighs 0.29 tons per cubic yard (580 pounds per cubic yard).
• Residents must load their own mulch and need to bring tools such as pitchforks.
• No motorized equipment is allowed.

Landfill Tours

The Loudoun County Solid Waste Management Facility is a popular site for scout groups, schools, and others. Visit us and learn how garbage is disposed of in a landfill, watch 40-ton tractors smash trash, and get quizzed on recycling.

The Department of General Services, Waste Management Division offers group tours once a week, Monday through Friday, between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., from March through November.

Arrange a Tour
Call 703-771-5514 to arrange a tour.

Landfill Photo Gallery
Browse our photo gallery.

Helpful Numbers

Loudoun County Office of Waste Management (703) 771-5318

Loudoun County Landfill (703) 771-5500

Limits of Responsibility

Neither Patriot Disposal nor Ashburn Farm Association will be responsible for trash containers, trash container lids, or any items left in or near the containers.  Patriot Disposal cannot remove refuse from a container that is packed too tightly, nor can they service containers weighing more than 50 pounds. Tightly packed containers or those weighing more than 50 pounds will not be collected/serviced.