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.

The University of Richmond Collegian student newspaper recently answered a question from one of its readers: Where does campus recycling go?

Also, in national recycling news, acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler and 44 of the top stakeholders in U.S. recycling signed a pledge on America Recycles Day to “work together to build on our existing efforts to address the challenges facing our nation’s recycling system and identify solutions that create a more resilient materials economy and protect the environment.” This is important because many of the problems with recycling in this country are further aggravated by the fact that, unlike other countries, recycling is financed and managed by local governments instead of state or federal ones. With some 20,000 different localities making their own decisions, inefficiencies do appear.