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.

Don’t forget that the RVA Environmental Film Festival continues for just a little while longer. Tonight, see the movie Before The Flood at VCU Cabell Library Lecture Hall at 6 pm.

Tomorrow night, see A Man Named Pearl at the North Courthouse Road Library in Chesterfield. And then this Saturday, check out EVOLVE: Driving a Clean Future in Coal Country at the Henrico Library in Varina, along with an electric vehicle presentation.

In recycling news, in Henrico, Tuckahoe District Supervisor Patricia S. O’Bannon will host a Tuckahoe Town Meeting on Thursday, Feb. 28 to discuss the proper disposal of household waste, recycling programs and other ways to conserve natural resources. But the big news for the state may be the continued wrangling over recycling coal waste. Legislation moving through the General Assembly to clean up Dominion’s coal ash now includes a provision that would shield Chesterfield County from truck traffic due to recycling.

On the international front, a Hezbollah leader appeared on an Israeli recycling ad.