County of Buckingham
Government and Administration
Solid Waste and Recycling
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New Clothing Containers & Cardboard In Take
There are now clothing recycling containers at all major solid waste recycling centers in the County. Please put unwanted clothing and shoes into these containers. Also, every recycling site offers a cardboard deposit bin. Please break cardboard down before putting it into these containers. [top of page]
Supervisor of Solid Waste and Recycling
Carolyn Amos
Supervisor & Solid Waste Vehicle Operator
camos@co.buckingham.state.va.us
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Janita Banks, Route 655 site monitor
Charles Crews, Route 655 site monitor
Henry Banks, Route 655 site monitor
Clarence Gormus, Arvonia site monitor
Herman Gormus, Arvonia Site monitor
Louis Banks, Arvonia site monitor
James Jones, Buckingham Recycling Center monitor
Roger Thomas, Buckingham Recycling Center
David Windrow, Buckingham Recycling Center
Andrew Eldridge, Route 600 monitor
Stanley Jones, Route 600 monitor
Robert Lee
John Tindall
Walter Jones
Contractors working within Buckingham County are required to carry all construction debris and disposal to a landfill (which Buckingham County does not have) or are required to purchase and use a roll off construction container. The following disposal compaines are licensed to work and hire in the County:
BFI - 1-800-522-2341
Container Rentals - 1-434-498-0591
Arena - 1-434-392-3997
USA Waste Management - 1-804-233-5052
Bryant's - 1-434-581-3341
Mo-Johns Sanitation Services - 1-800-440-6116Site Information
(for a map of all sites, click here)Buckingham Recycling Center
Arvonia Recycling Center
655 Recycling Center
Route 600 Recycling Center
Route 56 Recycling CenterPlease note that all facilities are only for household use of residents of Buckingham County. Contractors and businesses should not use these facilities, but go directly to a landfill.
TIRES: The County does not accept tires at disposal sites. There are designated days that the County Anti-Litter Task Force does accept them. Emannuel Tire Co. in Appomattox does collect tires for a fee - call 1-434-352-8889.
Recycling tips:
- Junk Vehicles: for information, call the County’s Administrator’s Office at (434) 969-4242 or email: camos@co.buckingham.state.va.us
- Appliances: refrigerator, freezers, air-conditioners-or any appliance with Freon, place in designated areas. Other appliances may be put in metals container.
- Plastic Shopping Bags: Food Lion in Dillwyn and Farmers Food in Dillwyn and other grocery stores accept used bags
- Glass: glass is separated by color. DO NOT include window glass, baking dishes, drinking glasses, or canning jars.
- Construction Materials: NO CONTRACTORS!! Residents only. Items to be placed in the construction materials containers are furniture, mattresses, springs, masonry, lumber, insulation, sheet rock, shingles, carpet, tile, etc.
- Paper: include newspaper, magazines, catalogs, light cardboard and mail. Please package materials in paper bags.
- Medicines: Keep away from children. Flush medicines down the toilet.
- Syringes: Put in a capped milk jug and place with household waste in a dumpster
- Clothing: There is now clothing recycling containers at all major solid waste recycling centers in the County. Please put unwanted clothing and shoes into these containers.
- Aluminum: A business buys aluminum from citizens bimonthly on the 3rd Saturday, from 9 a.m. to12 p.m. during the months of January, March, May, July, September and November
Road kill: for removal of dead animals off of right-of-way or state maintained roads, phone VDOT at 434-983-2017.
NO LEAVES & BRUSH IN CONTAINERS. THEY NEED TO BE COMPOSTED.
NO TIRES AT ANYTIME.Monitored Sites:
Buckingham Recycling Center, Rt. 15 (near Dillwyn Firehouse)
Rt. 15 North (at the old Arvonia School)
Rt. 655 Site (Glenmore Rd. off Rt. 20)
Rt. 56 Site (this site is monitored by cameras only)
Green boxes for household waste (garbage), appliances, and metal, newspapers, junk mail, magazines, construction materials and aluminum, clothes & shoes, cardboard in correct container
Buckingham Recycling also has glass recycling.For more information or suggestions, please call Carolyn Amos, Solid Waste & Recycling Supervisor at (434) 969-4242 on Tuesday and Wednesday’s.
Related Concerns:
- Fire danger: cigarettes can cause fires. Keep cigarettes in your ash tray.
- Open burning: outdoor burning is regulated by the State of Virginia. For information, call the Department of Forestry at 434.969.4211.
- Open trucks: please secure your trash so that is does not blow out of the truck bed.
- Road kill: for removal of dead animals off of right-of-way or state maintained roads, phone VDOT ar 434.983.2017.
Other Information
- Recycling and the law: Virginia law HB 1743 requires that each county in the state recycle 25% of all its solid waste.
- Littering and the law: illegal dumping and littering may result in a fine up to $1,000 and up to 12 months imprisonment as stipulated in the Buckingham County Solid Waste Ordinance.
- County facts and figures: the monthly average from household waste alone is about 470 tons. The cost of land filling this waste is $40 per ton.
Keep Buckingham Beautiful
- Adopt-a-highway: Join in the effort by picking up roadside trash. Call VDOT, 983-2017.
- Spring and Fall County Clean ups: For dates and information, call 434.969.4242.
- Volunteer: If you have suggestions or would like to be involved in out anti-litter and recycling programs, please contact Carolyn Amos camos@co.buckingham.state.va.us
New members of the Anti-litter Task ForceChairman: Nancy Powers
Vice-Chairman: Jerry Mundel
Secretary:
Treasurer: Carolyn Amos, Board of Supervisors RepresentativeThe Anti-litter task force was created by order of the Buckingham County Board of Supervisors on February 5, 1979. The Board of Supervisors saw a great need for a task force to eradicate the growing trash problem in the county.
Original members of the task force include Spencer Adams (who served as chairman), Helen Saxon, Jim Blevins, Edward LeSueur, Thomas Hutchenson, Thelma Ross, Garnett Shumaker, Meade Garrett, Frank Knott, Jr., Virginia Bailey, and Harry Bryant, Jr.
Since it's inception, the Buckingham County Anti-litter task force has received numerous awards at the county and state level:
- For example, in 1991 the Clean Virginia Award of Excellence;
- in 1990 the county won the Litter Prevention Award of Merit from the Virginia Department of Waste Management;
- in 1983, 1984, and 1990 the task force and the county received the Governor's Clean Virginia Award;
- an Honorable Mention from the Virginia Attorney General on behalf of the Keep Virginia Beautiful Organization;
- in 1992, the task force received a certificate of recognition from Governor L. Douglas Wilder.