Trash/Recycling/Yard Waste

West Laurel residents' trash/recycling/yard waste services are provided through Prince George's County. Service dates and scheduling information is as follows:

West Laurel Trash Collection:  1 x week, on Tuesdays*

• Detailed information on trash collection

West Laurel Recycling Collection:  1 x week, on Tuesdays*

• Detailed information on recycling collection

West Laurel Yard Waste Collection:  1 x week, on Mondays.*

• Detailed information on yard waste collection.

PG County Bulk Trash:  By appointment only. Visit the Bulky Trash Pick-Up site or dial 3-1-1 to schedule.*

• Detailed information on bulk trash collection.

*To report a missed collection or register a complaint about your trash/recycling/yard waste collection, please utilize the online CountyClick 3-1-1 Citizen Service Request System or dial 3-1-1 for assistance.  If you're unable to get through, you can contact Councilwoman Mary Lehman's office at 301-952-3887 and her staff will arrange pick-up ASAP. 

How to Recycle/Dispose of Other Items the Trash Won't Take 

Hazardous Waste:  Can be disposed of by driving them down to the Prince George's County's Brown Station Road Sanitary Landfill and Hazardous Waste Collection Site at 11611 White House Road, Upper Marlboro, free for residential use; charges for commercial usage. Hours are Mon through Sat, 8 AM – 3 PM except hazardous wastes and electronics: Thurs – Sat, 8 AM – 3 PM (for information, call 3 -1-1 or 301- 952-7625).

• Detailed information on hazardous waste collection.

Plastic Shopping Bags:  While hard plastic should be disposed by recycling, plastic bags that you get from grocery stores and that newspapers comes in, as well as plastic wrap (like Saran Wrap), should NOT be put into the county's recycling, as they clog up the single - stream sorting machines. Then these bags are a REAL problem to manually pull out. Rather than disposing of these bags as trash and unnecessarily filling the landfill, please instead collect them and take them to the bag recycling bin at any grocery store, and they will get recycled at a dedicated facility . Also, yard waste can not be in plastic bags,   as they screw up the composting .     

Electronics: Staples (including the one on US 1 in Laurel) offers free recycling of office electronics of "any brand of office technology in any condition, regardless of where they were purchased."  More information here.

Styrofoam: Information on where to recycle styrofoam can be found here.  

Latex Paint: Let it dry, uncovered, and when it is solid, then throw it in the normal trash. Stores like Ace Hardware sell a product to greatly speed such drying of latex paint.

Other Products: Call 1-800-RECYCLING or visit their web site, www.1800recycling.com which gives information on where to recycle various products, but does not say if there is a cost associated.