This Wednesday is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please go over what can be recycled. 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.

Due to the holiday shopping season kick off with ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Cyber Monday’, watch the nation’s struggling recycling system try to to ingest increased tonnage of cardboard.

And on the state front, the Virginia Mercury online newspaper asks “Will this be the year Virginia imposes a plastic bag tax?”