As with the recent VCU event Paint The Town Green, VCU should be commended for redoubling its efforts with the City to address public dumping by student renters at the end of school year and lease time. Hopefully messy trash sites will not happen so often in the future. VCU policeman Greg Felton deserves a lot of credit for also getting the word to local landlords.

Oregon Hill may or may not get a dumpster like the one pictured below. If we do, it will likely be on Albemarle Street between S. Cherry and S. Laurel.

From Councilperson Parker Agelasto’s FaceBook page:

Project Clean Move is operational. On Friday, dumpsters were placed at 4 locations near VCU to facilitate with the significant trash and bulk items resulting from students moving out of their residences. The dumpsters will remain until June 2. Please note that these will be emptied by the City’s Department of Public Works.

Dumpster Locations:
1) N. Plum Street between W. Main Street and Floyd Avenue
2) S. Morris Street between W. Main Street and W. Cary Street
3) N. Morris Street at the corner of Grove Avenue
4) Ryland Street at the corner of Grace Street

All residents are encouraged to use these dumpsters between April 25 and June 2. DPW will still respond to individual bulk pick-up requests as they are received. To report bulk pick-up, please call 311 or use SeeClickFix. If you have items in good condition, please also contact CARITAS Furniture Bank or Goodwill to donate them rather than adding to a land fill.

That last part is important. For VCU to continue to improve its sustainability efforts, it needs to get more students’ belongings recycled. The Sierra Club Falls of the James has helped University of Richmond do this through its Big Yard Sale (coming up this year on May 17th), but its understand able that VCU (and Virginia Union and other schools) may need to come up with its own model.