This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Ideally, rolling recycling containers are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night.

If you have not done so already, don’t forget to sign up for your Recycling Perks.
In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

In recycling news, a lot of people are wondering if Samsung will repair, refurbish or recycle millions of recalled phones? Its a good question because people spend so much time with their phones these days and a marketing researcher says people are more likely to recycle things they relate to their identity.

In local recycling news, don’t forget about the 2017 VRA 25th annual conference call for papers.
Submit your presentation idea for VRA’s 25th annual conference, Moving Toward Zero Waste, by January 20, 2017.