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.

In recycling news, Sonoco’s paper mill operations in Hartsville, South Carolina, have been shut down temporarily As a result of flooding from Hurricane Florence. Certain operations remain flooded and have experienced damage that could require those operations to be down for several weeks, according to a news release from the company, which is headquartered in Hartsville. Several other company operations in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina closed as the storm passed through the region but have reopened. However these locations are not accepting water-logged material from municipalities.

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.

In recycling news, economic and steel industry-specific woes in Turkey are being cited as a reason for ferrous scrap price declines in the face of a domestic steel industry in the United States that has shown steady growth in output in 2018.

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.

The Central Virginia Waste Management Authority needs our help. It’s now more important than ever that recycling containers are used for recyclable items only, according to CVWMA officials. Placing items that are not accepted, such as plastic bags or food-contaminated containers, in curbside recycling bins or drop-off recycling containers causes contamination issues and add additional processing and disposal costs.

In the past, nearly all paper and cardboard collected in central Virginia for recycling was marketed to paper mills in China – until recently, when the country stopped allowing certain commodities, such as mixed paper, into the country because of poor quality.

Quality issues are caused when non-recyclable items, like plastic bags, get mixed in bales of paper or cardboard and contaminates the paper. Shutting off the world’s largest importer of recyclable materials has disrupted the market and forced recycling companies and municipalities to question the economic viability of recycling – especially products such as mixed paper and glass.

As a result, CVWMA’s recycling vendors will no longer pick up unwanted items like plastic bags and other non-recyclables, including food-contaminated containers.

Recyclers should place loose acceptable items only in the recycling container and not bag recycling in plastic bags.

If you find an “OOPS” tag (pictured) on your bin or cart and your recycling was not collected, then you may have included items that are not acceptable.

To avoid this, visit cvwma.com/programs/curbside-recycling/what-to-recycle/.

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.

In recycling news, A.I. trash can sorts your trash from your recycling while many localities, including ones in Virginia, are re-examing their recycling options. With China balking at bringing in more American recycled materials, will we see a new emphasis on banning wasteful plastic packaging altogether. (Will the City of Richmond’s Green Commission do anything?)

This Wednesday is a “Red Wednesday”, but because of the July Fourth holiday, trash and recycling will be picked up Thursday. 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 on Thursday.

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.

Bloomberg recently ran a provocative column entitled “The Recycling Game Is Rigged Against Consumers”. It’s worthy of consideration.

The Virginia Gazette had a article entitled: “Despite Chinese ban, area recycling continues normally”. Excerpt:

Zook declined to discuss County Waste’s revenue from its operation of collecting and then selling recyclables, but voiced continued support for recycling.

“We’re still committed to recycling,” Zook said.

The recycling industry provided 8,669 jobs in Virginia in 2017. That year, recycling had an $1.9 billion impact in the state economy, according to a report by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.

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.

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.

In recycling news, things have been pretty grim, with economics and foreign relations having negative effects on the whole recycling industry. There are still some positive stories though- check out this one- Recycling Efforts Save Virginia DOT Over $15M on I-64 Rebuild.