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The Fuquay-Varina Public Works Department provides a wide range of municipal services to the residents of Fuquay-Varina. The primary functions of Public Works are:
- street and sidewalk construction and maintenance
- solid waste and recycling collection
- yard debris collection
What can we help you with?
Select a tab below to learn more about our services.
The Town provides weekly curbside garbage collection. Help us provide efficient, safe, and timely service by doing the following:
DO:
- Place your green garbage cart curbside the night before your scheduled service.
- Only include bagged household garbage in your cart (such as kitchen scraps and small items).
DO NOT:
- Place any of the following items in your garbage cart: recyclables, yard waste, liquids, dirt, masonry, rock, metal, wood, building materials, ashes, loose diapers, loose animal waste, contractor waste, fluorescent light tubes, electronic waste, or hazardous waste.
- Put cardboard out with your garbage. Cardboard is picked up by the Town on your regular recycling day. Boxes are to be broken down and placed beside your recycle cart at the curb for pick-up. Cardboard pick-up service is only available for residential accounts.
Garbage collection schedule:
Find your scheduled garbage collection day with our interactive map. When the map loads, expand the Town Information and Development layer group and turn on the Garbage Pickup Streets layer.
The Town provides bi-weekly curbside recycling collection. Recycling is picked up every other Wednesday, and should follow these guidelines...
DO:
- Place your blue recycling cart curbside on Tuesday nights before your scheduled pickup
- Break down and flatten cardboard boxes and remove all packing material
- Recycle! The State of North Carolina has banned cardboard, aluminum cans, and numbered plastics in landfills
DO NOT:
- Put your recycling in plastic bags
- Put pizza boxes in your recycling
- Put any type of plastic film, styrofoam, or bubble wrap in the recycling cart
- Put anything other than allowed recyclables in your recycling cart
Recycling collection schedule
Determine your collection date using the Green and Blue Recycling Calendar. Find out if you are assigned to the Blue or Green Route with our interactive web map. Expand the Town Information and Development layer group, and then select the Recycling and Leaf Collection Streets layer. Enter your address in the upper left corner to zoom to the address.
The Town collects yard debris (grass clippings, and branches) year-round by request. Complete the Yard Debris Form or call 919-552-1408 and leave a message to request service.
Requirements for collection
Place all loose residential yard debris in one or more plastic totes (less than 20 gallons and weighing less than 40 pounds).
Larger debris, such as limbs, must be stacked in one large pile. Limbs should not be longer than 5 feet in length and 5 inches in diameter.
No dirt, mulch, sod, or rocks will be collected. Do not place yard debris or limbs on a tarp.
All requests for pick-up received by 5:00 p.m. on Monday will be scheduled for pick-up that week. Debris should be placed curbside by Monday evening to be picked up before the end of the week.
Have an item that’s too large to fit in your garbage cart?
The Town picks up bulky items such as furniture, mattresses, box springs, and other large items.
Complete the Bulky Item Pickup Request Form. There is no fee for this residential customer service.
Requests should be made by Friday at 5 p.m. and pick-up is on Monday.
The town does not collect construction materials, treated wood, pallets, or hazardous waste materials. Visit Wake County Waste & Recycling for proper disposal of these items.
Have appliances or electronics you need to dispose of?
The Town picks up appliances for a $10 pre-paid fee for each appliance, and electronics for a $10 pre-paid fee per address visit. Pickup MUST be scheduled and paid for by Friday at 5 p.m. at the Finance Office located at 134 N. Main Street. Pick-up is on Monday unless otherwise noted.
Please complete the Appliance/Electronic Pick-up Request Form.
Electronics can also be dropped off free of charge at the Electronics Recycling Convenience Center located at 820 S. Main Street.
What item(s) do you need to dispose?
Item |
Disposal service available |
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Flattened cardboard
Metal cans
Plastics (water, soda, and cleaning bottles; plastic jugs)
Glass bottles
Cartons
Paper |
Recycling collection |
Kitchen scraps
Small household trash
Plastic film, packing material or bubble wrap
Styrofoam Pizza boxes |
Garbage collection |
Grass clippings
Small branches
Large branches |
Yard debris collection |
Loose leaf piles | Loose leaf collection (mid-October to mid-February; outside of this date range, put leaves in yard debris containers). |
Yard debris left by landscapers | Must be removed by landscaper. |
Christmas trees | Collected by the town December 26 through January 12. Learn more here. |
Treated wood or pallets
Hazardous waste
Construction materials
Fluorescent light tubes
Masonry materials
Dirt
Rocks
Mulch
Sod |
Not collected by the Town of Fuquay-Varina. Visit Wake County Waste & Recycling for proper disposal of these items. |
Contractor waste | Must be removed by contractor. |
Item too large to fit in the trash cart, but not listed as an item the Town does not collect | Bulky item pick-up service |
Appliances Televisions
Computers
Monitors
Scanners
Printers
Other electronics |
Appliance/Electronic recycling pick-up service ($10) Electronics can also be dropped off free of charge at the Electronics Recycling Convenience Center located at 820 S. Main Street. |
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Public Works
Physical Address
1415 Holland Road
Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526
Phone: 919-753-1027Fax: 919-552-7481