Alright, I think the schedule was thrown off by President’s Day, but we now have the 2020 schedule, and 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.

In recycling news, The NextGen Cup Consortium, an effort driven by McDonald’s and Starbucks, started reusable cup pilot programs at independent coffee shops around San Francisco and Palo Alto, California last week. The consortium is managed by Closed Loop Partners’ (CLP) Center for the Circular Economy, with the World Wildlife Fund serving as an advisory partner and design firm IDEO running the pilots.

It’s nice to see more sustainability efforts but everyone should be looking at corporate claims with a lot of skepticism. Greenpeace just released a report that includes a comprehensive United States survey of plastics recyclability. It found that U.S. companies are incorrectly labeling many plastic products as recyclable. The report, “Circular Claims Fall Flat”, states only PET #1 and HDPE #2 bottles and jugs are truly recyclable.

In more local news, this Saturday is the 6th Annual Shiver In The River, sponsored by Keep Virginia Beautiful. See more on that, but also more ‘about that’…