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 sad news, Recycle the Clown died.

Mr. Seidel, a 73-year-old Midlothian resident, died May 7 the way he wanted to go, without machines or drugs.
He was the first individual in Chesterfield County to adopt a road to keep clean when the Adopt-A-Road program began. Because of his interest in recycling, he chose “Recycle” as his clown name when he began clowning in the 1980s.
At first, everything about his costume was recycled, said Paula “Petunia” Ward, a fellow member of Clown Alley 3. “Most of the stuff he bought at yard sales and thrift stores, like a gold foil top hat and his first pair of pants — bright golf pants, the kind you only would wear on the golf course.
“He carried a plunger and would use it like a drum major with a baton. He had a big cow bell that on several occasions we had to take away from him so he would not, for instance, take it in church for the wedding of two of our clowns.”
Later, he acquired a more polished wardrobe. His trademark props were a chartreuse green wig and a big horn. While he sculpted balloons into different shapes, he’d talk to children about the importance of recycling.