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, there is still a lot of failure. None of the 50 companies evaluated by shareholder advocacy group As You Sow earned higher than a B- on recycling, reusability or compostability goals, while long term concerns are mounting with heightened attention around “forever chemicals” at landfills and other facilities.

In other news, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has released its annual report on solid waste management for the Commonwealth. Charlottesville’s CBS 19 relays the report, which says that the amount of solid waste Virginia facilities received in 2019 went up by more than 724,700 tons, or 3.3 percent, over 2018. Furthermore, the release says about three-quarters of the waste came from within the Commonwealth. The total amount from outside Virginia increased by 13 percent, with 43 percent of that coming from industrial sources.