This Wednesday is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please go over what can be recycled. 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 local recycling news, Chesterfield County will, thankfully, continue to recycle. It’s government has decided to continue supporting the Central Virginia Waste Management Authority’s program of collecting paper, cardboard, glass and other recyclable items from residences for at least three more years.

Instead of pulling out, as the county had threatened last year because of rising costs, the Chesterfield Board of Supervisors voted instead to approve an increase in the yearly fee households pay for CVWMA’s curbside service.

U.S. News and World Report has an article on how Virginia as a whole is working to improve its glass recycling abilities.

And in local-international recycling news, a fragment of a Hampton,VA recycling bin was found washed ashore on a beach in Ireland this week, identifiable by its town seal printed in white.