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Recycling Centers - search by zip |
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Don't forget to recycle: |
Plastic Bags
Take back grocery, produce, newspaper, and dry
cleaning bags (remove receipts) to any
Dominick’s, Jewel, or Wal-Mart store. 100
billion plastic grocery bags are used in the
U.S. each year, or about 333 per person. Only
about 4% are currently recycled.
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Used Clothing and
Textiles
Call your favorite charity or look for one of
the metal collection boxes from “U’SAgain”
located around the County. Call (800) 604-9533
for the location nearest you. Recycle worn-out
and torn clothing too.
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Scrap Metal, such
as pipes, gutters, swing sets, etc. – take it to
a metal recycling center (look in the phone book
under “Recycling Centers”) |
Household items
Usable dishes, small appliances, lamps, other
home furnishings – look in your yellow pages
under Resale Stores. Goodwill Industries has
donation centers on Randall Road in Batavia,
Carpentersville, and South Elgin
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Styrofoam
In Kane County:
Dart Container Corp.
310 Evergreen Drive, North Aurora
Anytime (bins by main entrance)
Bring:
• Foam packing blocks
• Food containers
(cups, plates, fast-food boxes)
NO: straws, cups
lids, paper
or packing peanuts
For more info call: (630) 896-4631
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Compact Fluorescent
Bulbs
Each of the new bulbs contains a small amount of
mercury. The small, new-style bulbs may be taken
to any Ace Hardware or the lighting dept. of any
Home Depot store for recycling.
The old-style fluorescent tubes contains more
mercury than the new types and should be handled
through a Hazardous Waste program.
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Recycling has many benefits. A
major one for our Fox watershed is to help
reduce the need for additional landfills.
Many communities in the Fox watershed have
recycling programs. Though you need to check
with your own community to make sure, most
common items that can be put out for curbside
programs include: |
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Paper |
• Newspaper and inserts
• Magazines, catalogs, and phone
books
• Office, computer, notebook,
and gift wrap paper
(no metal clips, spirals, binders, foil)
• Junk mail and envelopes (no
plastic cards foil or tyvek
envelopes)
• Chipboard - cereal, cake,
shoe, gift, tissue boxes
• Cardboard boxes. Must be
flattened and cut to 3’ x 3’
• Brown paper grocery bags
• Paperback books (no hardcover
books)
• Juice cartons and boxes |
| Aluminum Cans |
• Please empty and rinse
• Aluminum foil, pie plates,
trays (must be cleaned) |
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Steel/Tin Cans |
• Soup, fruit, beans, tuna
cans and lids -- Please empty
and rinse
• Metal paint cans and lids -
Must be empty and dry
• Empty aerosol cans
• Small cookie tins |
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Glass |
• Clear, brown, green --
Please empty and rinse. Labels
are OK
• NO
window glass, dinnerware,
ceramics, mirrors, light bulbs |
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Plastics -- look for code on
bottom of container |
• #1 PET bottles and boxes
(water and soda bottles, some fruit boxes)
• #2 HDPE bottles (milk, juice,
laundry detergent)
• #3 PVC bottles (health and
beauty products, cleaners)
• #4 LDPE containers (margarine
tubs, vegetable oil, 6-pack
rings)
• #5 PP containers (yogurt,
syrup, ketchup, etc.)
• #7 Other -- Narrow neck
containers only
• Plastic buckets, such as kitty
litter containers
(5 gallon max. size, no metal handles) |
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Plastics NOT accepted |
• Bags (should be returned
to stores)
• Film (no plastic wraps,
sandwich bags, tarps)
• Containers for motor oil,
pesticides or chemicals
• #6 plastic – Styrofoam,
polystyrene
(packing peanuts, blocks, meat trays, egg cartons) |
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Visit our
Waste Disposal Page
for more information |
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