There are currently over 40 glass drop off containers that residents are encouraged to use. Visible from Judicial Drive, the container is across the street from the Page Avenue Post Office, in the Burkeholder Administrative Building parking lot. The City of Fairfax has a purple glass-only drop off container at 10700 Page Avenue, Fairfax, VA 22030. Glass Drop-off LocationsĬity residents can use any of the Purple Can Club glass-only drop-off containers in the region (see map below). A portion of the glass will be crushed into sand and gravel for use in a variety of local construction projects, such as paving, pipe bedding and backfill. The majority of the glass collected in these containers will be sent to a glass processing facility where it will be recycled into new glass containers. The Purple Can Club consists of over 40 purple, glass-only drop-off containers that are located throughout the region. The City of Fairfax has joined other Northern Virginia jurisdictions in the "Purple Can Club", a recycling program for residents to recycle their glass waste. To ensure glass is recycled, residents are encouraged to use the Purple Can Club glass-only drop-off containers. Removing glass from the City’s single-stream curbside collection, and collecting glass independently through the region's Purple Can Club will generate a higher quantity and quality of source separated material that can be made into new glass bottles and jars. Glass is also the heaviest material collected in the recycling stream, creating additional costs for a material that is ultimately landfilled instead of recycled.
Debris and grit from other materials contaminate the glass that could be made into new bottles, but is instead discarded into the landfill. Much of the recycling infrastructure in the region is not equipped to source separate glass at a high enough quality when comingled in a single-stream recycling system. Glass containers break during collection and processing liquids in the glass bottles and jars negatively impact paper and cardboard and broken glass pieces can collect in other processed materials, which is hazardous to machinery and workers. Glass creates many problems for single stream recycling.
Residents should reuse glass containers or bring them to one of the Purple Can Club glass-only drop-off containers located throughout the region (see map below), or dispose of glass in the trash. Beginning April 1, 2022, residents who receive City recycling services are no longer allowed to place glass in curbside recycling.
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