Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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 local recycling news, the City has already started deploying new recycling carts to certain parts of the Northside.

In national recycling news, according to the Recycling Today website, employment increased by 8,700 in the waste and recycling industry during 2014, bringing total sector employment to a new high of 383,300, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics cited by the National Waste & Recycling Association (NW&RA), Washington.

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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)

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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.

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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.

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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.

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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.

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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.

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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….