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Chesapeake City Park Recycling Drop-off

Plastics #1 and #2, cans, and mixed paper; cardboard separately

Hours not posted. Call ahead.

  • Open sunrise to sunset.

Address not posted. Call ahead.

On Hollowell Lane next to the SPSA transfer station, behind the Public Works Environmental Quality building, near the skate park

Call the city office: Chesapeake Customer Contact Center, 757-382-2489Get directions

This center has no phone of its own, so this calls Chesapeake Customer Contact Center at 757-382-2489.

Not yet verified. Call ahead to confirm. Source checked Oct. 20, 2026.

Source: City of Chesapeake: Recycling

Run by City of Chesapeake Public Works.

City of Chesapeake rules

  • Chesapeake residents with proof of residency get 12 free drop-offs a year at SPSA’s Chesapeake Transfer Station; after that it’s $78 a ton, with a $20 minimum. The station takes no residential waste on Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday, when residents can use SPSA’s Suffolk transfer station instead.
  • City trash customers can schedule bulk pickup at 757-382-2489 or online, by the day before their trash day: one household pile up to 4 by 4 by 10 feet a week, 12 a year, plus yard debris piles with no yearly limit. Keep the two piles apart.
  • Since July 27, 2026, recycling goes in the trash bin with everything else, sorted later by SPSA. The city’s drop-off recycling sites stay open: plastics #1 and #2, cans, and mixed paper in one container, flattened cardboard in the other.

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