This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup.

This will be the first time for Oregon Hill to use the new, larger rolling recycling containers. Ideally, they are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night.

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

In national recycling news, RecyclingToday.com has a story on EPA proposals to reduce landfill emissions:

As part of the President’s Climate Action Plan – Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued two proposals to further reduce emissions of methane-rich gas from municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. Under these recent proposals, landfill gas emissions at new, modified and existing landfills would be reduced by nearly one-third compared with current requirements.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential more than 25 times that of carbon dioxide, the EPA says. In addition to methane, landfills also emit other pollutants, including the air toxics benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and vinyl chloride.

MSW landfills are the third-largest source of human-related methane emissions in the U.S., accounting for 18 percent of methane emissions in 2013—the equivalent of approximately 100 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution—the EPA says.