You get 3 hours to pick up trash, then 2 hours to turn it into art. Go.

Good riddance to SPSA, and here’s to a more comprehensive, forward thinking recycling program for Hampton Roads.

Green Alternative’s Amelia Baker follows Hampton Roads’ roughly 6.4 million pounds of trash a day and 2.3 billion pounds of waste a year from your bin to its final resting place.

A primer on all the ways ODU is leading the pack when it comes to greening the campus, including such innovations as a water cistern under Foreman Field and using tree trimmings to feed hippos at Norfolk Zoo.

Your local greenie–Amelia Baker, owner of Green Alternatives–judges whether or not Hampton Roads has developed a strong relationship with earth-friendly habits and happenings.