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. There was a recent Richmond.com column on local recycling.

In recycling news, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) has announced the winners of the 2015 Innovation in Plastics Recycling Award.

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. There was a recent Richmond.com column on local recycling.

In state recycling news, Virginia Beach is offering residents a way to properly dispose of holiday cooking oil.

In national recycling news, an Albany, NY man claims Walmart fired him for recycling $5 in cans from their parking lot.

This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. It’s regular collection for recycling with Veteran’s Day.

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.

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 United Nations named the top 10 countries with the highest per capita e-waste rates. The Unites States, with a per-capita e-waste generation rate of 48.7 pounds per person, was eighth in the list. For more information on Central Virginia Waste Management Authority’s e-waste response, click here.

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.

In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

Don’t forget the City’s Clean City Commission & Stormwater Utility Recycle Event on October 17 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.

In state recycling news, Carded Graphics, a Staunton, Virginia-based producer of printed folded cartons has been acquired by Graphic Packaging International Inc.

This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup.

This will be the fourth time for Oregon Hill to use the new, larger rolling recycling containers. Ideally, they are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night.

In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

Here’s a new website devoted to recycling wood: http://www.reusewood.org. In other recycling news, a new method been found that recycles scrapped tires for supercapacitors. Overall though, recycling companies are having to adapt as scrap prices for recycled goods fall.

This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup.

This will be the third time for Oregon Hill to use the new, larger rolling recycling containers. Ideally, they are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night.

This just in: The schedule during the UCI Bicycle Race will change. Expect a much earlier garbage collection for Sept. 23.- as in 2 am! Click here for Times Dispatch article.

In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup.

This will be the second time for Oregon Hill to use the new, larger rolling recycling containers. Ideally, they are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night.

This just in: The schedule during the UCI Bicycle Race will change. Expect a much earlier garbage collection for Sept. 23.- as in 2 am! Click here for Times Dispatch article.

In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

In other news, Treehugger.com has a story on a new recycling method by Reformation, a clothing company. It is

making it super easy for you to recycle your old clothes. Any U.S. customer who purchases a garment from Reformation online will receive their shipment in a box—plus a special return label addressed to a clothing recycler. You then load up the box with any gently used clothing and shoes you want to have recycled, slap on the return label and leave it out for your mail carrier.
It’s free and you don’t even have to leave your house.

This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup.

This will be the first time for Oregon Hill to use the new, larger rolling recycling containers. Ideally, they are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night.

In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

In national recycling news, RecyclingToday.com has a story on EPA proposals to reduce landfill emissions:

As part of the President’s Climate Action Plan – Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued two proposals to further reduce emissions of methane-rich gas from municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. Under these recent proposals, landfill gas emissions at new, modified and existing landfills would be reduced by nearly one-third compared with current requirements.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential more than 25 times that of carbon dioxide, the EPA says. In addition to methane, landfills also emit other pollutants, including the air toxics benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and vinyl chloride.

MSW landfills are the third-largest source of human-related methane emissions in the U.S., accounting for 18 percent of methane emissions in 2013—the equivalent of approximately 100 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution—the EPA says.

As forewarned, the new recycling containers were delivered in the neighborhood on August 10. It looks like a lot of residents are still figuring out what to do with them. Ideally, they are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. However, some Oregon Hill houses do not have alley access, and some of those do not even have easy access to their back yards. Residents should try to do the best they can to adapt. Ultimately, the Central Virginia Waste Management Authority (CVWMA) is responsible for the roll out of the new recycling program and can answer questions. The hope is that these new recycling cans will encourage more recycling and reduce clutter and spillovers on front sidewalks. Don’t forget to sign up for “Recycling Perks”.