Welcome to the Buchanan County Litter and Recycling Office website.
The Buchanan County Litter Control Office has numerous programs
and projects. Some of the innovative programs include:
Assign-A-Highway, Illegal dump cleanups, deployment of Surveillance
Cameras, Litter Enforcement, Stream Cleanups, Tri-County
Regional Programs, Outreach to schools, businesses and civic groups,
County wide Spring cleanup, Electronics Recycling, Household Hazardous
Waste Collection and Clean Your Files Day, and now citizen paper
recycling drop off located at the Grundy Shopping Plaza in Grundy,
VA
Did You Know!
The Buchanan County Litter and Recycling office has a model Litter
Ordinance! This new litter control tool will aid our department
with stopping those who choose to litter our beautiful county-they are
better known as Litter Bugs! Recently the litter officers won a
landmark case using the civil damages componet of the litter
ordinance-a $700 decision was placed on a litter bug!! This is
the first of this type of suite against a litter bug in Buchanan County
history. Buchanan County is the second county in Southwest Virginia to
use the Civil Suite, with Wise County being the first. Currently
our neighbors in Dickenson County adopted the Civil Suite and have
cases pending.
How is this different from taking someone to criminal court? In
Criminal Court, the litter officer has to prove without a shadow of a
doubt that the person or persons place the materials in the littered
area or dump. In Civil Court, the defendant has to prove they
didn't throw or discard the materials found at a dump.
We at the Litter and Recycling office will be using this tool more as
the days go by, we currently have 15 cases pending hearings by a Judge.
Under the civil suite, those found guilty can be fined up to
$5,000 plus court cost. Penities levied in these cases will
go back to our office to purchase additional litter control tools, such
as Groundhog "Survalliance" Cameras, educational materials, etc.
If you know of someone who has illegally dump trash, furniture,
household appliances, woody debris or any materials considered trash
over our hillsides or beside our roadways please don't hesitate to call
the Buchanan Couny Litter and Recycling Office at 276-935-6106.
For more information about the Buchanan County Litter and Recycling Office and its programs, please
contact us at (276) 935-6106 or 935-4574.
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Contact
Jerry Ward, Litter Officer
Richard Lee, Litter Officer
Phone: 276-935-4574 or 276-935-6106
Fax: 276-935-0129
Email: buchlitter@buchanancounty-va.gov
Buchanan County Litter and Recycling Office Administrative Office
P.O. Drawer 950
Grundy, VA 24614
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