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Talkin' Trash Newsletter
Volume 14 - Issue 2
Tri-County Resource & Waste Management Council




Providing recycling news for communities, businesses, and schools

In the Newsletter
The Trend for 2010 - "Out With the Old"
From Township, to TCRCF, to Recycling Center
Reuse-a-Shoe Lives!
Must Do Dates...
Township Clean-ups
Earth Day
Where to Recycle Your CFLs
The Trend for 2010 - "Out With the Old"

Eliza


Township Clean-ups Indicate an
Upsurge in Electronic Recycling

Eliza and Richland Grove townships in Mercer County have conducted their 2010 clean-ups with amazing increases in the amounts of electronics and scrap metals recycled and items landfilled. 


The 151 households in Eliza Township generated approximately six tons of materials that went to the landfill and 2,829 pounds of electronics that were delivered to the Tri-County Regional Collection Facility (TCRCF). All totaled, it was an average of 18.68 pounds of landfill materials and 93.5 pounds of appliances and other metals per household.  In 2009 Eliza Township produced 500 pounds of e-waste and 8,275 pounds of metal.  This reflects a 565% increase in electronics recycling and a 45% increase in heavy metals.

The 306 households in Richland Grove generated approximately nine tons of landfill items and 4,685 pounds of electronics. Each household recycled 15.32 pounds of e-waste and 20.75 pounds of material went to the landfill. The community increased its 2009 e-waste recycling by 633% and landfill materials by 818%.

Congratulations to both communities for their clean-up commitment!

From Township to TCRCF to
Recycling Center
It's All in the Process


Township clean-ups provide the opportunity for residents to dispose of electronics and heavy metals (white goods) responsibly. Because of a new state law mandate, the TCRCF, as a registered IEPA e-cycler, provides free electronics recycling to residents for Covered Electronic Devices (CEDs) such as TVs, CPUs, printers and monitors; and Eligible Electronic Devices (EEDs) like keyboards, mice, speakers, fax machines, zip and jazz drives.  Once the electronics are collected at a township clean-up, they are trucked by the TCRCF to its facility and the landfill materials are taken to the closest site.  At the facility, the e-waste is sorted and prepared for trucking to a recycling facility.  All the non-CRT electronics go to Plainfield, Illinois, for recycling and all cathode ray tubes (CRTs) such as TVs and monitors go to Jamesville, Wisconsin, where they are recycled or disposed of appropriately.


In a time when funding for recycling programs has become scarcer, it is becoming more apparent that the public is ready and willing to recycle and make sure that materials that need to go to the landfill arrive there - and not in rural ditches.  Since September of 2005, the TCRCF has processed 1,015,474 pounds of electronics under voluntary conditions. By January 2012, under a new electronics law PA 095-0959, all TVs, CPUs, printers and monitors will be banned from the landfills in Illinois. Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota already have bans in place.  This will make facilities such as the TCRCF even more essential to ensure that toxic electronics are disposed of properly. The TCRCF has secured electronic recycling weights-credits for all of its electronics collected for the next two years under the new law, guaranteeing a recycling home for all of the electronics collected.

The Tri-County Regional Collection Facility serves residents from the City of Galesburg, the City of Rushville, and Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough and Warren counties.  Henry and Knox counties recently elected to no longer participate as collection sites.


Reuse-a-Shoe Lives!Reuse 102
A Canceled Program
Comes to Life
Bigger and Better



Reuse-a-Shoe Goes Year-Round!

The Reuse-a-Shoe Program has become a year-long shoe collection.  No longer is spring cleaning the only time you can recycle your used athletic shoes. Starting now, two facilities will be open to accept your used athletic shoes on a year-round basis. The Tri-County Regional Collection Facility, 510 N. Pearl Street in Macomb, can accept shoes Tuesday through Friday from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm and the first Saturday of the month from 8:00 am to noon; and Maple City Recycling Center, 614 South 3rd Street, Monmouth, Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm.

 

The collection only accepts old, used athletic and walking shoes with no metal parts. No shoes with metal parts, such as zippers, eyelets, studs, or motion lights, and no sandals, boots or dress shoes will be accepted.  Once a specific quantity of shoes is collected, they are sent to the Nike Corporation who will grind the shoes into "Nike Grind," a material that can be used to make new sports surfaces for soccer and football fields, basketball and tennis courts, and tracks and playground surfaces.

 

For more information, call Tri-County Resource & Waste Management Council Solid Waste Coordinator Chad Braatz at 309-331-4782 or the Maple City Recycling Center at 309-734-6939.


The Tri-County Resource & Waste Management Council (TCR&WMC) represents and meets the solid waste management needs of incorporated and unincorporated communities in McDonough, Mercer, and Warren counties.  The council's Solid Waste Coordinator provides a comprehensive approach to solid waste issues.  For more information about the TCR&WMC, call 309-331-4782.
TCR&WMC logo
MUST DO....DATES
TCR&WMC
June 29
July 26
Warren County Courthouse/Monmouth
7:00 pm

McDonough Co. Law & Legal Committee

May 3
June 1
July 6
McDonough Co.
Courthouse/ Macomb
7:00 pm

Mercer Co. Board

May 4
June 7
July 12
Mercer County
Courthouse/Aledo
7:00 pm

Mercer Co.

Recycling Board

May 27
July 22
CES Office/Aledo
7:00 pm

Warren Co. Board

June 23
Warren County
Courthouse/Monmouth
9:30 am




TOWNSHIP CLEAN-UPS
Swan
April 17
8-11am

Eldorado
April 30
8 am - 3pm
May 1
8-noon

New Salem
April 30
8am - 3pm
May 1
8am - noon

Scotland
May 5
8am - Noon

Emmet
May 21
8am - 3pm
May 22
8am - noon

PROPOSED CLEAN-UPS

Hale
June 4 & 5

Macomb
June 11 & 12

Bethel
June 19

 Preemption
June 25 & 26


EARTH DAY
APRIL 22, 2010
Earth Day is Celebrating its 40th Anniversary!

Start planning your Earth Day 2010 event or action now and join The Green Generation!

Earth Day Website
WHERE TO RECYCLE YOUR CFLs!
CFL
You can now drop off your CFL bulbs at health departments in Knox, Warren and McDonough counties.
Make sure you put the bulb in a plastic bag
when transporting it to a drop-off site!


Click here for more drop-off sites in Illinois

Click here to view CFL disposal video


WHERE TO TAKE  UNWANTED MEDS FOR FREE DISPOSAL!
CFL
CHECK THE LIST BELOW FOR   THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT CLOSEST TO YOU. TAKE ALL YOUR MEDS IN A ZIP LOCK BAG!

Fulton Co. Health Dept.
Canton/309-647-1134

Hancock Co. Health Dept.
Carthage/1-800-422-8218

Henderson Co. Health Dept.
Gladstone/309-627-2812

Knox Co. Health Dept.
Galesburg/309-344-2224

McDonough Co. Health Dept.
Macomb/309-837-9951

Mercer Co. Health Dept.
Aledo/309-582-3761

Warren Co. Health Dept.
Monmouth/309-734-1314

QUICK LINKS

TCR&WMC
Website

Environmental Protection Agency

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency

Illinois Recycling Association