The Labor Day holiday yesterday moves trash and recycling pickup this week to Thursday instead of Wednesday. Please go over what can be recycled. 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.

TFC Recycling, Virginia’s largest residential curbside recycling facility, is reporting a 20-percent increase in recyclable materials since the start of the pandemic. But that extra volume has also brought trash that shouldn’t have been thrown into the recycling bins in the first place. Employees are encouraging people to educate themselves on what is actually recyclable before they add to the bin.

DON’T FORGET- The City of Richmond has scheduled an E-Cycle Day for September 12 with COVID-19 Guidelines-

This Wednesday is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please go over what can be recycled. 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, two Northern Virginia teens started their own business to help recycle glass that might otherwise end up in the trash.

While in Charlottesville, UVA is trying to recycle debris from the demolishing of its Alderman Library. (Makes you wonder what VCU has been doing with its debris from its demolished gym).

In national news, the Trump administration in early August re-imposed Section 232 tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada, but did not apply tariffs on Canadian steel.