This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night.
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. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night. Please also keep in mind that the City is supposed to be doing leaf removal and street cleaning this week.
In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.
Companies said they pursued sustainable manufacturing efforts largely because of customer demand. The media attention and awards these companies garnered for their sustainable manufacturing efforts, in turn, helped build consumer trust and brand loyalty.
Companies surveyed gained more than consumer loyalty. Many reported saving money and using fewer resources through physical waste, water, energy and sustainable manufacturing initiatives.
This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night. Please also keep in mind that the City is supposed to be doing leaf removal and street cleaning this week.
In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.
In recycling news, three cities in Hampton Roads are using high-tech computer technology to track how often residents are recycling.
This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night. Let’s get the streets and sidewalks clear for the trick-or-treaters and Halloween parade.
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. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night.
In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.
In recycling news, the City of Toronto has had some success developing raccoon proof composting bins.
This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night.
In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.
Appreciate that we do not live in Russia–
There is little doubt Moscow could use a robust recycling effort. The majority of the city’s landfills date to the Soviet period and fail to meet modern environmental standards. Furthermore, Greenpeace Russia has estimated that all of Moscow’s landfills will be full within the next two to four years.
In the absence of a broad municipal effort, die-hard recyclers have to rely on a hodgepodge of private, for-profit companies that are not always willing to accept small batches of recyclables, usually take only one kind of material, and are both far away and hard to find.
This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night.
In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.
Plastics, cans, glass– how about cardboard?
According to this website:
One ton of recycled cardboard saves:
390 kWh hours of electricity.
46 gallons of oil.
6.6 million Btu’s of energy.
9 cubic yards of landfill space.
Cardboard and paper waste make up 41% of the municipal solid waste stream.
Recycling cardboard takes 24% less energy and produces 50% less sulfur dioxide than making cardboard from raw materials.
Makes you wonder what our neighbor Mead Westvaco is up to….
This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which normally means trash and recycling pickup, but due to the Monday holiday, pickup will happen on Thursday morning. Again, because of the Labor Day holiday, collection will be Thursday instead of Wednesday. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup Thursday night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after Thursday night.
In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.
So we have mentioned plastics and aluminum cans, what next? How about glass? From the EPA:
Americans generated 11.6 million tons of glass in the municipal solid waste (MSW) stream in 2012.
About 28 percent of the glass was recovered for recycling.
Glass recycling increased from 750,000 tons in 1980 to more than three million tons in 2012.
Food, soft drink, beer, food, wine, and liquor containers represent the largest source of glass generated and recycled.
Glass in durable goods, such as furniture and appliances, round out the sources of postconsumer glass.
Unfortunately, there are still many questions about recycling glass in Virginia…even in Arlington…
But CVWMA says about glass in City of Richmond:
Glass bottles and jars (no lids please). Recycle through City of Richmond’s curbside recycling collection program or at one of the drop-off recycling collection sites. No other glass items accepted for recycling.
(Personally, as with plastics, I put all glass in the bin in the hope that there will be more improvements made.)
From Craigslist ad:
If you, or someone you know, took the panel of wood that was covered in collaged and then wheatpasted black and white xeroxes of space capsules and astronauts throughout time which someone left in the trash on Cherry Street this evening, please contact me. PLEASE. I am the original artist. This piece has an incredible amount of emotional importance to me. It represents a huge landmark in my own personal artistic development, I am desperate to have it back. Please, if you have this piece, contact me immediately. My heart is broken that this went into the gutter, it wasn’t supposed to wind up on the curb like this. I really hope someone can help. I would do anything to have this back.
From Councilperson Parker Agelasto’s FaceBook page, in response to a story on NBC12 News:
Is the system broken? We have received numerous complaints about the lack of enforcement for illegal dumping and the failure of the City’s Department of Public Works to respond in a timely fashion (current response time is more than 30 days). Surely the increased call volume for service requests keeps RPD and DPW busy. However, does the average citizen know how to report an issue for effective response? We tell them “if you see something, say something.”
After calls from neighbors of Peyton Avenue who informed me that they had reported illegal dumping to the Richmond Police Department and 311, I visited the alley on August 2. I logged 7 SeeClickFix cases for bulk pick-ups and illegal dumping. The bulk pick-ups were behind residential houses and appeared to be yard debris and furniture. The illegal dumping reported more than 8 locations where dozens of tires had been brought to the alley and illegally disposed. I also contacted the Richmond Police Lieutenant for the Sector and reported the illegal dumping.
Wanting to improve her community, one concerned neighbor informed me that she had loaded a pile of the tires in her truck to deliver to the Southside refuse center on Hopkins Road but was only allowed to dump four tires. She then asked other vehicles in line to take up to four tires to dump until her truck was empty. The effort of this good Samaritan was met with resistance since there is a formal policy at DPW regarding tire disposal. As such it appears the piles of tires in the alley between Wythemar and Roanoke Street behind Peyton Avenue were going to stay put as citizens were unable to help themselves to remove the unwanted blight.
On August 7, several of the SeeClickFix cases I reported were CLOSED because Code Enforcement “is incapable of assigning an inspector to an area that is not connected with a parcel address. Please call our office…” What? A phone call revealed that SeeClickFix reports of Illegal Dumping are not being handled by RPD instead through Code Enforcement but only on private property and not in the public right-of-way. Illegal dumping on city-owned property becomes a bulk puck-up request for DPW to send a crew to retrieve. Now the tires in the alley enter the 30-day backlog of requests with apparently no attempt to fine or arrest anyone associated with the dumping.
With such a large backlog of bulk & brush requests, citizens continue to call and report the issues. They continue to ask for assistance from city leaders. Sometimes, they organize a community clean-up through the Clean City Commission or simply contact the media as the bully pulpit. This again requires DPW to respond with resources – often paying overtime to meet this excessive demand. Could DPW have solved its own problem by accepting the tires at the local refuse center thus eliminating the roundabout that ultimately cost them and frustrated citizens? Seems like a viscous loop with no good solution.
“If you see something, say something.” That’s the message of community policing but it needs to be reinforced in all departments of City government. Citizens need to inform the Richmond Police Department that you will testify in court when you witness the incident. City DPW staff need to look for items and respond to them when they see it so that we reduce mobilizing other staff to the same area. If we don’t change the condition, we can’t solve the problem. We’re only inviting more bad behavior, forcing larger backlogs, slower response times, or higher taxes.
Fortunately, in the instance reported above a community clean-up is scheduled for this Saturday, August 23, from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon. Meet at George Wythe High School. Oregon Hill and Randolph are also hosting clean-ups on Saturday, August 23, from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon. Meet up at S. Laurel Street at Albemarle or 1401 Grayland Avenue.