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Thursday, November 26, 2009: Thanksgiving Day - No County-provided recycling or trash collections on November 26; Thursday and Friday collections that week shift by one day. Transfer Station closes at 5 p.m. on November 25; closed November 26.
Effective September 21, 2009, our recycling program expanded to accept additional blue bin and mixed paper items!
Montgomery County has two closed municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills:
Since the Oaks Landfill stopped receiving waste, all burnable MSW that comes to the County Processing Facility and Transfer Station is loaded into transfer containers and rail hauled to the County Resource Recovery Facility (RRF), located near Dickerson, MD for incineration. Yard trim material, such as leaves and grass, is received and processed at the Transfer Station, and is also rail-hauled to the our Composting Facility, located near Dickerson, MD.
The ash produced from the RRF and other non-processible rubble (DOT-type material) that is delivered to the Processing Facility and Transfer Station are transported via rail and truck to the Brunswick Waste Management Facility, Inc. (BWMF) landfill, located in Brunswick County, Virginia. The County’s contract with BWMF is for 15 years, with an option for a 5-year extension. Recyclable rubble, such as clean asphalt, dirt, and concrete are taken to local rubble recycling facilities such as Clean Earth in Hagerstown, MD.