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.

Alright, VCU students, let’s talk cans. First of all, you can get paid for collecting and turning in your aluminum cans. And restricted supply to keep aluminum prices elevated in Q3 2014, says the headline. Lately, that means around .50 to .55 for a pound of aluminum cans. A 16 gallon bag of cans gets you around $5. You can turn your nose up if you want, but that means pocket money for (more) beer. Personally, I go right across the Lee Bridge to Pocket Money Recycling to turn my cans in, but certainly there are other places around town.

And there are good reasons to recycle aluminum cans:

So, please, recycle your cans, don’t just throw them away in your trash.

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.

Recent polling indicates that there needs to be more awareness about plastics recycling. Click here to read what the Central Virginia Waste Management Authority says about plastics. (Personally, my attitude is, when in doubt, put it in the bin and see if they will accept it anyway- they need to.)

Lastly, and very much related to recycling, don’t forget about the neighborhood yard sale coming up on August 16th!

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.

Also, please do not forget about Project Clean Move. The next project day is Saturday, August 2. Please contact neighbor Jimmy Blackford at prairiegates at hotmail.com in order to volunteer for the Oregon Hill team.

On August 1 – 2 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., a Goodwill truck will be stationed on the corner of Morris Street and Grove Avenue.

For large items that are not suitable for donation, call 311 and request a bulk pickup.

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.

Also, please do not forget about Project Clean Move. The next project day is Saturday, August 2. Please contact neighbor Jimmy Blackford at prairiegates at hotmail.com in order to volunteer for the Oregon Hill team.

On August 1 – 2 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., a Goodwill truck will be stationed on the corner of Morris Street and Grove Avenue.

For large items that are not suitable for donation, call 311 and request a bulk pickup.

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.

Also, don’t forget this Saturday’s Project Clean Move.

In recycling news, North American aluminum scrap prices recently moved slightly higher. And a new research paper sees the global market for recycled paper packaging reaching $139 billion in the next 4 years.

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 recycling news, The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), Arlington, Virginia, has released its “Third Annual Report of the eCycling Leadership Initiative,” which shows a total of 620 million pounds of electronics were recycled in 2013, more than double the amount collected for recycling in 2010. The eCycling Leadership Initiative has established a goal of recycling 1 billion pounds of electronics by 2016. The initiative says it plans to grow the number of collection opportunities available to consumers, improve consumer awareness of available electronics recycling collection sites and provide transparent metrics on electronics recycling efforts. E-cycling is important.