The City of Virginia Beach Parks and Recreation Department is committed to preventing litter from making its way into our waterways and harming our wildlife. 

Our targeted litter prevention programs allow us to focus on some of the biggest litter contributors by providing recycling receptacles at popular parks, boat ramps, fishing piers and marinas for cigarette butts and monofilament fishing line.

  • Cigaratte butts trashcan

    The cigarette butts from these containers are collected and shipped to TerraCycle for recycling into plastic pellets that are then combined with other plastics and used for new plastic products like ashtrays, shipping pallets and plastic lumber.
  • Monofilament Recycling Bins1

    Many boat ramps, parks, and marinas across our fisheries throughout the state have monofilament recycling bins for depositing old and tangled monofilament into these plastic bins.
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