Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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This Wednesday is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup.

Please go over what can be recycled.

NOTE: CVWMA (Central Virginia Waste Management Authority) has announced that all curbside recycling must now be INSIDE the CVWMA containers with lid closed. Items beside the container or on top of it will not be collected. In fact, incorrect setouts may not be collected at all. This is new as of July 1 for all our curbside recyclers, with the exception of townhomes/condos still using small bins. (And yes, this also applies to flattened cardboard boxes.)

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 it seems like pickup did not happen, use this online form:
https://cvwma.com/programs/residential-recycling/recycling-service-request-form/

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

Don’t forget this recycling event on Saturday.

Richmond E-Cycle: Bring One for the Chipper Christmas Tree Recycling Event – Saturday, January 13

Reminder: Posted January 9, 2024

Note: this event also includes paper shredding, the collection of electronics, household hazardous waste items and oil based-paint

Who: The Richmond Department of Public Works and The Clean City Commission

What: 15th Annual City of Richmond Bring One for the Chipper Christmas Tree Recycling Event

When: Saturday, January 13, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: 1710 Robin Hood Road (northeast corner of Robin Hood Road & North Arthur Ashe Boulevard)

Background: The City of Richmond’s E-Cycle Day event offers City residents an efficient option to recycle Christmas trees, paper, electronics, and household hazardous waste items to keep them out of the landfill. Recycling these items also helps keep city waterways, streams, and rivers clean. Recycling Christmas trees allows them to be re-purposed and used as mulch. This free event is available to city residents – proof of residency is required. No commercial or business items will be accepted.

Christmas Tree Recycling Options:

Tree Drop-off: Residents can drop off their trees at the following two locations:
1710 Robin Hood Road on the day of the event or prior to the event
Remove all lights and decorations
If dropping off prior to the recycling event, please place the tree in the designated area
Note: No trees will be accepted at 1710 Robin Hood Road after the event ends at 2 p.m. on January 13, 2024.
East Richmond Road Convenience Center (ERRCC), located at 3800 East Richmond Road
Residents can start dropping off Christmas trees after the holiday through January 11, 2024
ERRCC hours of operation are 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday
Curbside Collection Instructions – handled by the department’s Bulk and Brush Team:
Please place your Christmas tree (with no lights or decorations) beside your recycle cart and it will be picked up on your regular recycle collection day by the bulk and brush team (not by CVWMA). The team will collect Christmas trees curbside after the holiday through Thursday, January 11, 2024.
Note: All trees collected curbside or dropped off at the ERRCC will be recycled.

The event also includes:

Paper Shredding – no charge

Up to five (5) paper bags or boxes of paper documents
Remove staples and clips
Paper shredded onsite
Electronics – various fees apply

Computer systems (hard drive or CPU) and accessories (cables, wires, keyboards, mice, speakers, etc.) VCRs, camcorders, stereos, and all phones
Televisions, computer monitors and printers
Other electronic equipment (almost anything with a plug – see the online list for clarification)
To get fees and the full list of electronics go to www.rva.gov/public-works/clean-city-commission and click on the tab for Recycling
Household Hazardous Waste Items – no charge

Pesticides, herbicides (Roundup, Weed B Gon, bug spray, rodent poison etc.)
Oil-based paints
For more information on DPW, please visit us online at www.rva.gov/public-works or email us at AskPublicWorks@rva.gov

We’re Social! For updates on DPW-related projects, activities and events visit us on Twittter @DPW_RichmondVA

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Animal Welfare

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Many Richmond residents were horrified to learn that a famous deer who had been roaming in Hollywood Cemetery and the James River park system had been shot and poached this past month. The report even made it to the Washington Post newspaper.

This buck, with a nice big rack of antlers, was a welcome sign of riverfront wildlife and undoubtedly lead a whole herd.

It really was not so much about hunting in general so much as it was about what is supposed to be protected inside the City, where hunting is illegal. Some residents said that people should be more careful about posting photos and other information about wildlife, in case that inadvertently entices more criminals in the future. Over the years, that buck had made it into a lot of local photographs.

Given the amount of gunfire heard last night, enforcement may not seem that obvious, though the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources may also have more resources when it come to poaching than the Richmond Police Department has for illegal shooting.

This incident does beg the question- should the City try to hide remaining pockets of wildlife or celebrate and do more for them publicly?

Elsewhere in Virginia, the nation, and the world, more is being done to protect wildlife from traffic, with wildlife crossings, and noise, with more restrictions on human activity. The City of Richmond, on the other hand, under the rule of VCU and corporations, seems to be moving in the opposite direction. As expressed here earlier last year, the local PTB (Powers That Be) seem determined to blast this neighborhood, and its more natural surroundings, off the hill altogether with a new, unnecessary, outdoor amphitheater.

But dig a little, and the callousness towards nature and wildlife goes much deeper. Indeed, while the very sad story about ‘cemetery buck’ made local media rounds, some residents are wondering if another story should really be getting more attention- it’s to the Richmond Free Press and reporter Jeremy Lazarus’ credit that an article entitle ‘VCU’s rat de-bait’ appeared in that newspaper this past week (Full disclosure: I do some part-time technical work for the Richmond Free Press).

It comes as another outrage to the ravaged historic park- what was a wooded, Victorian park treasured by City residents has been expensively turned into, essentially, another VCU campus lawn in a long-involved ‘renovation’. It’s a depressing end for this place that some City residents had hoped could have become part of the ‘East Coast Greenway’.

But more pointedly, what the Richmond Free Press article did not get into, is that VCU’s costly, poisonous traps poise a great threat to local wildlife. The glyphosate floated by VCU in Monroe Park is substantial and also affects humans and important pollinators. Any poisoned squirrel or rat from the park can be picked up by hawks and owls, who will also die and spread the poison to the river or wherever they die.

We need local leaders and organizations who are not afraid of the VCU administration to call this poisoning for what it is- totally unacceptable, and demand an immediate halt.

Furthermore, the City needs to look at the big picture and come to terms about its commitment to animal welfare overall. Many residents want to live in a more biophilic city. Unfortunately, government already has a bad reputation for ignoring its human citizens and deferring to the corporate PTB instead.

Jame River Park’s Winter Solstice Celebration

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On December 21 Jame River Park System will co-host a midday nature hike for the public around Belle Isle to be led LERN naturalists Bill Shanabrauch and Stacey Moulds (Local Ecotype Richmond Natives) at 12 PM. Meet at the Belle Isle side of the suspension bridge.

In the evening, JRPS Programs hosts a night hike at 6 PM. Hot chocolate provided by Friends of James River Park. Both events meet at the Belle Isle side of the Suspension Bridge. Email programs@jamesriverpark.org for more information.

OHNA Meeting Tomorrow Night

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From email:

Monthly Meeting Agenda
Tuesday 18 December 2023
7:00PM
This meeting will be held by Zoom, at the link below.

Topic: OHNA Monthly Meeting – December 2023
Time: Dec 19, 2023 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
(Editor’s note: Meeting information redacted but please email ohnarva@gmail.com if you would like to receive it)

Welcome
• Treasurer’s Report

Community Updates:

1. Lt. Brian Robinson, City of Richmond Police Section Lt, 4th Precinct
2. Officer Luke Schrader, Police Liaison, VCU
3. Ms. Verenda Cobbs, VCU
4. Ms. Stephanie Lynch, 5th District Councilperson
5. Ms. Colette McEachin, Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney

Updates:

1. Continued automobile accidents in and around neighborhood.
· While some traffic calming measures are planned to coincide with repaving in 2024, are these enough?

2. Any updates on the restaurant planned for the former Mama Zu space?

Continued Business

3. A volunteer has agreed to head up a committee looking into locations for a dedicated dog park in Oregon Hill and addressing the various city requirements for such an undertaking.
· A Friends of Oregon Hill Parks has been created to plan park improvements, plantings, and to e investigate a location for a dog park

New Business

4. Any other new items?

Bryan Clark Green, President
Harrison Moenich, Co-Vice-President
Jennifer Hancock, Co-Vice-President
Mike Matthews, Secretary
John Bolecek, Treasurer

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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This Wednesday is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup.

Please go over what can be recycled.

NOTE: CVWMA (Central Virginia Waste Management Authority) has announced that all curbside recycling must now be INSIDE the CVWMA containers with lid closed. Items beside the container or on top of it will not be collected. In fact, incorrect setouts may not be collected at all. This is new as of July 1 for all our curbside recyclers, with the exception of townhomes/condos still using small bins. (And yes, this also applies to flattened cardboard boxes.)

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 it seems like pickup did not happen, use this online form:
https://cvwma.com/programs/residential-recycling/recycling-service-request-form/

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

In recycling news, Covanta Energy Corp. has begun operation of a new metal recycling system, the first of its kind in North America, designed to recover very small particles of non-ferrous metal at its waste-to-energy facility in Fairfax County, Va.

The Morristown, N.J.-based Covanta said in a news release the new system will annually prevent the creation of 15,000 tons of greenhouse gases from the production of new aluminum, copper and other metals from raw metal materials.

OHNA Meeting Tomorrow Night

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From email announcement:

Monthly Meeting Agenda
Tuesday 28 November 2023
7:00PM
This meeting will be held by Zoom, at the link below.
Topic: November OHNA Meeting
Time: Nov 28, 2023 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

(Editor’s note: Meeting information redacted but please email ohnarva@gmail.com if you would like to receive it)

Welcome
• Treasurer’s Report

Community Updates:

1. Lt. Brian Robinson, City of Richmond Police Section Lt, 4th Precinct
2. Officer Luke Schrader, Police Liaison, VCU
3. Ms. Verenda Cobbs, VCU
4. Ms. Stephanie Lynch, 5th District Councilperson
5. Ms. Colette McEachin, Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney

Updates:

1. Pleasant’s Park upgrades
· Thank you to all of the volunteers who came to the two Saturday workdays to help construct the new fence in the park, paint new picnic benches, and otherwise clean up the park. Thank you also for Parks & Recreation for bringing out the heavy equipment and staff to remove the old chain -link fence and to dig the holes for the new posts.
· Thank you to everyone who sawed boards, dug holes, broke up brick in the holes (ugh), set the posts in concrete, attached the new boards, and did all the many other tasks it took to complete this project.
· Parks & Recreation provided the heavy equipment and knowledgeable staff; OHNA purchased the new materials, and the neighborhood provided many volunteers to see the job through.
· Once the new wood has been able to age a bit, we will return to apply a protective stain to the fence.

2. Infrastructure walk held 4pm – 5:30 Friday Oct 27.
· Thank you to all of the volunteers who helped out.

Continued Business

3. A volunteer has agreed to head up a committee looking into locations for a dedicated dog park in Oregon Hill and addressing the various city requirements for such an undertaking.
· A Friends of Oregon Hill Parks has been created to plan park improvements, plantings, and to e investigate a location for a dog park

New Business

4. OHNA elections
· Anyone interested in running?
5. Any other new items?

Bryan Clark Green, President
Harrison Moenich, Co-Vice-President
Jennifer Hancock, Co-Vice-President
Mike Matthews, Secretary
John Bolecek, Treasurer