Richmond Recycles
Richmond.com features an overview of recycling in Virginia as part of today’s America Recycles Day, along with facts about the state’s current and past recycling efforts.
Virginia has 52 curbside recycling programs, and the state requires localities to recycle 25 percent of solid waste. Virginia also has 46 different drop-off centers, and recycles 38.4 percent of its solid waste.
The article also profiles the efforts of other cities and states, including North Carolina, Charleston, W.Va., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Denver, Portland, Ore. and Madison. For more information on recycling in Virginia, visit the Virginia state page on Earth 911.
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posted on November 15th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
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nanaflan
posted on January 5th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
It’s too bad that the only comment was from a spammer…anyway, I moved to Virginia a year ago and I’m shocked that there is no mandatory recycling for households. People look at me like I’m nuts for even asking about it. I live out in the country and it’s such a beautiful area. There is quite a bit of litter on the back roads. LOTS of empty cans and bottles. Why no deposit on bottles? That would stop some people. Now they want to put a huge landfill nearby and there seems to be no way to fight these people. The polution and trash along the roadside is going to be even worse. Any ideas of where I can start to get people to recycle. A lot of my neighbors burn their garbage too and it’s not just paper. People won’t know what they had until it’s gone. Shame shame Virginia! I lived southeastern PA for a couple years before I moved here and it was the same thing. Beautiful countryside but no recycling except in the populated areas. I was even called a “Tree Hogger” once (no, I did not spell it incorrectly, that is what I was called)