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 recycling news, a lot of people are wondering if Samsung will repair, refurbish or recycle millions of recalled phones? Its a good question because people spend so much time with their phones these days and a marketing researcher says people are more likely to recycle things they relate to their identity.

In local recycling news, don’t forget about the 2017 VRA 25th annual conference call for papers.
Submit your presentation idea for VRA’s 25th annual conference, Moving Toward Zero Waste, by January 20, 2017.

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.

Anyone in the neighborhood interest in DIY plastics recycling with Precious Plastic V2.0?

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. This is a good time to clear the sidewalks for Halloween trick-or-treaters.

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.

Click here for Halloween recycling tips.

In recycling news, Ontario cardboard recycling facility goes up in flames, while Harrisburg, PA comes up with a cool way to use recycled colored glass.

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.

Think you know how to recycle? Look for the new labels on your favorite products to find out if they’re recyclable nationwide, recyclable on a local level or not yet recyclable. This way you’ll know which products you can avoid sending the landfill. Click here for more info.

In worrisome recycling news, scrap prices have continued to fall, putting a strain on recycling outfits everywhere. From the linked article:

About 90 percent of the 8 billion soda cans sold in California every year get turned in for recycling and a 5¢ refund. But cheaper commodity prices, plus lower Chinese demand for America’s used bottles and cans, have upended the economics of the state’s recycling industry. Over the past two years, California’s recycling rate has fallen enough to relegate more than 2 billion containers a year to landfills.

That said, the amount of energy conserved by recycling a single aluminum can should give everyone incentive to continue to recycle- recycling a single aluminum can saves 96% of the energy used to make a can from ore. The equivalent energy could power a television for over 3 hours.

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 recycling news, the Virginia Gazette reports that the Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg has begun a oyster shell recycling program to go along with its composting efforts.

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.

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In recycling news, the Georgia Institute of Technology has announced a major breakthrough; a new carbon fibre recycling process that could recycle virtually 100% of the materials in certain types of thermoset carbon fibre.

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 recycling news, a new Greenpeace study suggests consumers have had enough. A survey of 6,000 people across the U.S., China, Mexico, Russia, Germany and South Korea revealed that over half of consumers want manufacturers to release fewer phone models and do more to help them recycle their old devices.

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.

Also, here’s a new post on trash/recycling with, uh, a slightly different take that may be worth reading- Urban Trash: Why and How to Minimize Your Garbage.

In recycling news, a new report from the Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling at Worcester Polytechnic Institute says that the recycling rate for automotive aluminum is over 90% in the United States.

From the article on www.recyclinginternational.com:
‘We set out to detail exactly how aluminium is separated and recovered at the end of a vehicle’s service life, and findings show it is highly recyclable and is recovered and reused at very high rates,’ comments Professor Diran Apelian, founding director of WPI’s Metal Processing Institute.

‘With an eye toward reducing the nation’s energy consumption, lowering carbon emissions and increasing fuel economy, this study confirms that, as aluminium use continues to grow in the automotive sector, it also enhances energy security and environmental protections.’

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.

As you may have seen around the neighborhood, we have lots of problems with student renters’ illegal dumping again this year. Its slowly getting better, but we need to make a bigger effort. The good news is that VCU is doing more to address the problem. It may be too late for this year, but keep these tips in mind for next summer-

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.

Recycling Today reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the final rules for new, existing and modified landfills.

According to the rules, landfills will begin capturing and controlling landfill gas emissions at levels that are one-third lower than current requirements, updating 20-year-old standards for existing landfills.

Combined, the final rules are expected to reduce methane emissions by an estimated 334,000 tons a year beginning in 2025—equivalent to reducing 8.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. EPA estimates the climate benefits of the combined rules at $512 million in 2025 or more than $8 for every dollar spent to comply.

In science news, researchers have found that larval fish exposed to microplastic particles during development displayed changed behaviors and stunted growth which lead to greatly increased mortality rates. The researchers discovered that larval perch that had access to microplastic particles only ate plastic and ignored their natural food source of free-swimming zooplankton.