Happy New Year! This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night.

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

Need to recycle your Christmas tree? From info on CVWMA’s site:

Through Jan. 10, 2015
East Richmond Road Convenience Center, 3800 East Richmond Road,yard waste area
Richmond Southside Transfer Station, 3520 N. Hopkins Rd.yard waste area
Residents can set tree by Supercan for collection (tree will be recycled)
Note: “Bring One for the Chipper” event 1/10/2015 from 9 am until 2 pm, (Document shredding will be included too.)
Hosted by the City of Richmond Dept of Public Works and Richmond CCC, field at corner of North Boulevard & Robin Hood Rd)

This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night.
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. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night.

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. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night. Please also keep in mind that the City is supposed to be doing leaf removal and street cleaning this week.

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

A new study that surveyed top companies is offering proof of successful sustainable manufacturing efforts:

Companies said they pursued sustainable manufacturing efforts largely because of customer demand. The media attention and awards these companies garnered for their sustainable manufacturing efforts, in turn, helped build consumer trust and brand loyalty.

Companies surveyed gained more than consumer loyalty. Many reported saving money and using fewer resources through physical waste, water, energy and sustainable manufacturing initiatives.

This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night. Please also keep in mind that the City is supposed to be doing leaf removal and street cleaning this week.

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

In recycling news, three cities in Hampton Roads are using high-tech computer technology to track how often residents are recycling.

This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night. Let’s get the streets and sidewalks clear for the trick-or-treaters and Halloween parade.

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

In recycling news, it’s still not clear, whether, the supply-demand graph of aluminum is up in the highest or lowest at the bottom?, even though the question is a simple one, the answer is very much harder to find.

This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night.

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

In recycling news, the City of Toronto has had some success developing raccoon proof composting bins.

This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night.

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

Appreciate that we do not live in Russia–

There is little doubt Moscow could use a robust recycling effort. The majority of the city’s landfills date to the Soviet period and fail to meet modern environmental standards. Furthermore, Greenpeace Russia has estimated that all of Moscow’s landfills will be full within the next two to four years.

In the absence of a broad municipal effort, die-hard recyclers have to rely on a hodgepodge of private, for-profit companies that are not always willing to accept small batches of recyclables, usually take only one kind of material, and are both far away and hard to find.

This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night.

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

Plastics, cans, glass– how about cardboard?

According to this website:

One ton of recycled cardboard saves:
390 kWh hours of electricity.
46 gallons of oil.
6.6 million Btu’s of energy.
9 cubic yards of landfill space.
Cardboard and paper waste make up 41% of the municipal solid waste stream.
Recycling cardboard takes 24% less energy and produces 50% less sulfur dioxide than making cardboard from raw materials.

Makes you wonder what our neighbor Mead Westvaco is up to….

This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which normally means trash and recycling pickup, but due to the Monday holiday, pickup will happen on Thursday morning. Again, because of the Labor Day holiday, collection will be Thursday instead of Wednesday. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup Thursday night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after Thursday night.

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

So we have mentioned plastics and aluminum cans, what next? How about glass? From the EPA:

Americans generated 11.6 million tons of glass in the municipal solid waste (MSW) stream in 2012.
About 28 percent of the glass was recovered for recycling.
Glass recycling increased from 750,000 tons in 1980 to more than three million tons in 2012.
Food, soft drink, beer, food, wine, and liquor containers represent the largest source of glass generated and recycled.
Glass in durable goods, such as furniture and appliances, round out the sources of postconsumer glass.

Unfortunately, there are still many questions about recycling glass in Virginia…even in Arlington…

But CVWMA says about glass in City of Richmond:

Glass bottles and jars (no lids please). Recycle through City of Richmond’s curbside recycling collection program or at one of the drop-off recycling collection sites. No other glass items accepted for recycling.

(Personally, as with plastics, I put all glass in the bin in the hope that there will be more improvements made.)