Because of the Fourth of July holiday, trash and recycling pickup moves to Thursday this week. 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 Thursday night.

This has been announced previously, but starting this month, Central Virginia Waste Management Authority will now accept additional plastic bottles and containers with the number 1-7 on the bottom as well as waxy cartons for recycling.

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, do not put your dog into recycling bin.

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 Virginia recycling news, students at Yorktown High School in Arlington, Virginia, are petitioning the high school to upgrade its recycling efforts by replacing current trash and recycle bins with integrated waste receptacles with clearly labeled bins for “recyclables” and “landfill.” Students are concerned that the current blue recycling bins at the school are being treated as regular trash cans by a majority of students, undermining the school’s recycling effort. Please consider signing their petition (click here for link) and encourage this to be a statewide effort.

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.

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.

A couple of additional notes:
Locally, with the school year drawing to a close, it is time for student renters and others who are moving to consider how to deal with all of their stuff. With the City budget strained, it is important that stuff is recycled and disposed of properly, without just dumping it on the sidewalk, street, and alley. I am happy to post neighborhood yard sale notices on this site. There are also certainly a number of local thrift stores and charities that are willing to receive furniture donations.

Sadly, the 5th District Cleanup/RVA Cleansweep event this past Saturday was cancelled due to weather, but there is an Oregon Hill alley cleanup scheduled for June 4th, organized by Cherry Street neighbor Jimmy Blackford.

There’s been lot of internet/social media interest in these new edible/biodegradable six pack beer can rings. Will local breweries implement them?

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.

A couple of additional notes:
Locally, with the school year drawing to a close, it is time for student renters and others who are moving to consider how to deal with all of their stuff. With the City budget strained, it is important that stuff is recycled and disposed of properly, without just dumping it on the sidewalk, street, and alley. I am happy to post neighborhood yard sale notices on this site. There are also certainly a number of local thrift stores and charities that are willing to receive furniture donations. Don’t forget the 19th Annual Big Yard Sale at the University of Richmond on May 14th.

In terms of Oregon Hill neighborhood cleanups, RVA CleanSweep has a Randolph/Oregon Hill litter pickup scheduled for May 21. Meetup link: http://www.meetup.com/RVA-Clean-Sweep/events/228648874/
There is also a alley cleanup planned for early June.

In international recycling news, scientists are studying the anomalous sinking of spheres, which might lead to better recycling methods.

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 Colorado University-Boulder research team has found a way to recycle carbon-fiber composites by simply soaking the composite in an organic solution at room temperature.
Read more: http://www.environmentalleader.com/2016/02/19/strong-lightweight-and-recyclable-has-this-startup-discovered-the-holy-grail-of-carbon-fiber-composites/#ixzz44KwU7xDV