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What are YOU doing for Earth Day?
CVWMA wants you to make every day Earth Day! Check out our educational resources as well as local events in our region.
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Recycling Collection Schedule
Residential (curbside) recycling collections with CVWMA are every other week. Red or Blue? which day are you. Sign up for our free collection day email reminder.
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Recycling is easy with CVWMA
Use our Recycling Wizard to see what you can recycle where you live.
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What to Recycle
There’s no need to sort your items, but please take a moment to learn what (and what not) to recycle with CVWMA. It’s all you. Your recycling matters. Nearly 125 tons of recyclables are collected each day of residential (curbside) recycling service.
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Journey To the MRF
Take a virtual field trip to a Materials Recovery Facility (or MRF) owned by TFC Recycling. See firsthand what happens to recycables in this educational video...
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Drop-off Recycling
Most of CVWMA’s member jurisdictions offer convenient drop-off recycling centers. Over 7,600 tons of recyclables have been recycled through this program this past fiscal year and not sent to area landfills.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Special Scout Patch
The program is designed to teach Scouts that live within one of the CVWMA’s thirteen member jurisdictions the importance of being a “recycling steward” in their community.
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Education and Outreach
CVWMA wants to help you recycle better! Visit our Education and Outreach page for tools to help you better care for our planet.
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Welcome to CVWMA
We offer waste collection and recycling programs for residential use within 13 localities in Virginia.
Getting Started
If you live in one of our nine participating localities, curbside recycling is EASY with CVWMA!
- Is service available at my address?
- What can I recycle?
- How can I prepare my recycling items?
- What type of container can I use?
- Frequently asked questions.
CVWMA wants to help you recycle! We’ve compiled great tools to encourage recycling for a wide range of audiences. Visit our Education and Outreach section for details
Common Requests
Curbside Recycling Services
- Report a missed collectionTo report a missed recycling collection, Call: (804) 340-0900 for customer service.
- Ask for extra container stickers
- What is my collection day
- Sign up for email reminders
- Accepted Items
- Holiday Collection Schedule
- Order a bin or cart
Residential Trash Collection Services
- GuidelinesCVWMA contracts for trash collection service in the Town of Ashland and the Cities of Colonial Heights, Hopewell, and Petersburg. Click this link to get guidance for each location
- Report a missed collectionTo report a missed trash collection, Call: (804) 425-0500 for customer service.
- Holiday Collection Schedule
- Bulk Pickup Request
About CVWMA
We offer waste collection and recycling programs for residential use within 13 localities in Virginia. Learn more about the CVWMA and it’s programs:
- COVID-19 and CVWMA Collections
- Local Impacts to Changing Global Markets, Clean Up At, Recycle Right
- Curbside Recycling
- Drop-off Recycling
- Residential Trash Collection
- Electronic Recycling
- Meet the Board
- Mission and Vision
- Regional Recycling Rate
- Monthly Program Statistics
- Stay Connected with CVWMA
- How Are We Doing?
