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.

Pretty happy with the turnout for this year’s RVA Solar Tour, which was part of the National Solar Tour. Hopefully the next iteration will be even bigger. One recycling tidbit to keep things in perspective- as much as I love independently producing power from the sun, (and please note I am not really that into numbers,) I am pretty sure from scratching out the math on napkins that my collecting and recycling of aluminum cans from around the neighborhood in one year conserves more energy than my solar house solar panels produce in one year. That says more about the amount of energy that can be conserved from recycling aluminum than it does the utility of solar. (Recycling of aluminum cans saves 95% of the energy required to make the same amount of aluminum from its virgin source. One ton of recycled aluminum saves 14,000 kilowatt hours (Kwh) of energy, 40 barrels of oil, 130. 152.32 million BTU’s of energy, and 10 cubic yards of landfill space. Or to put it another way, recycling one aluminum can save the equivalent energy for powering a television for over at least 3 hours.)

Mark your calendar and plan ahead…