FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions

There are two recycling centers in Culpeper County.

Laurel Valley Recycling Center

14017 Laurel Valley Place

​Culpeper County Transfer Station

Hours of Operation

  • Monday - Saturday 7 AM - 4 PM
  • Sunday 1 PM - 5 PM

Closed on the following Holidays

  • New Year's Day
  • Memorial Day
  • Independence Day
  • Labor Day
  • Thanksgiving Day
  • Christmas Day

Lignum

Off of Route 3, 2.4 miles east of Batna Road (Route 647) - 1/2 mile west of Shell's Gas & Stuff

Hours of Operation:

  • Saturday 8 AM - 6 PM
  • Monday 8 AM - 6 PM
  • Wednesday 1 PM - 6 PM

***Also, accepts cardboard

***At Laurel Valley Recycling Center there is a container for glass, aluminum and tin, newspapers and magazines, cardboard and plastics grades 1 through 5.

Aluminum

Aluminum is not magnetic (i.e. cans, foil, etc.), it is accepted at both locations.

Automotive Needs

The Laurel Valley Solid Waste Transfer Station will accept antifreeze, motor oil and tires.

Retailers of batteries are required to accept your old battery IF you are purchasing a new battery from them. Contact your local auto parts store for more information.

Batteries

Alkaline Batteries can be disposed of in your normal household trash.

Rechargeable Batteries are recyclable through the RBRC (Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation). They recycle the following battery chemistries: Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium Ion (Li-ion) and Small Sealed Lead* (Pb). They have drop-off locations in many cities across the Country.

Or you can find a drop off location online.

You can also contact them by calling (678) 419-9990; or you can recycling [at] rbrc.com (email the company).

Clothing

Culpeper Baptist Church Clothes Closet

318 S. West Street

(540) 825-8192

(1st & 3rd Wednesday's, 10 am - 12 noon. Also every Wednesday evening, 6:30-7:30)

Full Circle Thrift

12308 Sperryville Pike, Culpeper

(540) 727-8717

Clothes and household items.

Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm

KC's Thrift Shop

122 W. Culpeper Street

(540) 825-9838

(Mon. - Tues. 10am - 5pm, Thurs. - Sat. 10am -5pm, Sun. 12pm - 4pm)

Culpeper Regional Hospital Auxillary Thrift Shop

513 Meadowbrook Drive

(540) 825-7523

Goodwill

504 Culpeper Town Square

(540) 829-8068

(Mon. - Sat. 9am - 7pm, Sunday 12pm - 5pm)

Corrugated Cardboard

Accepted at:

Laurel Valley Recycling Center

Lignum Convenience Center

Only accept thick double or single lined with corrugation. Cannot accept thin, glossy, waxy cardboard, such as poster board, etc. The items must be dry, and breakdown into pieces that will fit into the slots of the containers. We do NOT accept colored cardboard or cardboard that has been coated with wax or clay

Glass

Accepted at:

Laurel Valley Recycling Center

Lignum

Remove the caps or lids (anything metal). Paper labels do not need to be removed, but we do ask that you empty and rinse the bottles.  We do NOT accept the following: ceramics, clay pots, blue glass, crystal, light bulbs, mirrors, window glass, heat resistant ovenware (Pyrex, etc.), or BROKEN glass.

Household Appliances

Accepted at:

Laurel Valley Solid Waste Transfer Station

**$8.50 fee per item, for appliances which contain freon.

Leaves & Brush

These materials can be composted in your yard, or hauled to the Laurel Valley Waste Transfer Station.

Newspapers

Accepted at:

Laurel Valley Recycling Center

Lignum

Newsprint and magazines are accepted. Please keep your papers/magazines dry.  We do NOT accept telephone books for recycling.

Other various metals

Accepted at:

Transfer Station 

Plastics

Plastic food containers that are less than two gallons and Grades 1,2,3,4 and 5 are accepted at the Laurel Valley Recycling Center.  Plastic must be cleaned and rinsed.  We do NOT accept Styrofoam, plastic bags or rigid plastics such as PVC pipe/siding, toys, car parts, buckets, etc

Steel (Steel is magnetic, i.e. steel cans and jar lids): 

Accepted at:

Laurel Valley Recycling Center

Lignum

Empty and rinse, paper labels do not need to be removed.

The recycling centers DO NOT ACCEPT the following items at any time:

Friable asbestos/asbestos rock, ammunition, explosives, petroleum contaminated soil, tar, automobile bodies, manure, dead animals, creosote-covered lumber, stumps, compressed gas cylinders, unidentifiable materials as well as biological, medical and radioactive waste.

For recommendations on proper disposal of these materials, please call (540) 727-3409.