This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night.

In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

Plastics, cans, glass– how about cardboard?

According to this website:

One ton of recycled cardboard saves:
390 kWh hours of electricity.
46 gallons of oil.
6.6 million Btu’s of energy.
9 cubic yards of landfill space.
Cardboard and paper waste make up 41% of the municipal solid waste stream.
Recycling cardboard takes 24% less energy and produces 50% less sulfur dioxide than making cardboard from raw materials.

Makes you wonder what our neighbor Mead Westvaco is up to….