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Solid Waste Advisory Board- - Regular Meeting December 125 2002 Government Services , Hillsborough Approved January 9 , 2003 Prince William County began operating the landfill in 1969 as one of the first permitted landfills in the State of Virginia . One of the differences between Prince William and Orange is that all the collections including both residential and commercial are done by private companies . There are no municipal (public) collections of waste . Two cities located within the county are totally independent from the county . They have their own tax rate , their own planning office , etc . They handle their own waste as they see fit . [They do not pay the County' s waste assessment fee . ] ided to expand the existing landfill . The county purchased In 1988 the county dec approximately 800 acres of land bringing the site to almost a thousand acres . To do that, the county had to borrow money as a revenue bond for $ 123 million, of which $ 18 million is still outstanding . We have an integrated system, similar to most governments who have recycling programs and yard waste programs . We have a unique situation with Fairfax County to our north, where we utilize a new waste energy facility . We work together on yard waste compost . We have a regional yard waste compost facility where Fairfax County brings yard waste to Prince William and Prince William ' s trash goes to Fairfax waste facility for disposal . It ' s called the 'trash trade ' . When we expanded the landfill we wanted to have a long -term solution, so we made plans to extend the landfill to 2050 . We had gate fees to cover the entire system . The County ' s tipping fee covered the recycling program (dropoff sites and materials recovery facility but no curbside) , household hazardous waste program and the yard waste program . The fee covered everything . That was the primary source of revenue . The county did have a flow control ordinance which required that all trash generated within the county would be delivered to the county landfill , which fell apart due to a Supreme Court decision [ Carbone 19961 . The City of Manassas within the county decided to go its own with trash disposal . They allowed Waste Management to build a transfer station within that city . The large [privately owned] landfills located south of the county and central Virginia were developing . The County began to lose trash to other facilities . With the loss of trash flow, the landfill tipping fee revenues begin to drop . The number of haulers dropped from 19 down to 6 . The big guys were buying up the little guys . Four big haulers and two little ones survived this crisis . Working with two citizen committees (one is made up of representatives of each jurisdiction of the county and the other with one with citizens who live around the landfill) whose primary issues were the landfill and how it operates . These committees recommended that the County (for the short-term) import trash . The rates were dropped , trash flow increased and the revenue increased enough to pay the bills . Trash was imported from as far away as New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and the District of Columbia . Trash could be intercepted off I - 95 before going to the southern landfills . A 2