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Don’t Just Toss Your Old Electronics After Opening Christmas Gifts

CHICAGO (CBS) – If you got a new TV, computer or laptop for Christmas, a new ban that takes effect next week in Illinois could affect you. CBS 2′s Susan Carlson explains that the new rules impact what...

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Alderman Seeks To Lift Landfill Moratorium Because Of One Operation

CHICAGO (CBS) — A South Side alderman says he is working to protect residents despite how it looks as he tries to lift Chicago’s moratorium on landfills. As WBBM Newsradio Political Editor Craig...

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Lake County Hoping To Boost Recycling Level To 60 Percent

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (CBS) – Lake County commissioners are using an upside down garbage can as their symbol of a new effort to start recycling 60 percent — instead of 40 percent — of everything left at the...

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County Commisioner Calls For Ordinance Banning New Landfills

CHICAGO (CBS) – Cook County Commissioner John Fritchey and local environmentalists are calling for approval of an ordinance banning new or expanded landfills in unincorporated Cook, even though...

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Recycling Advocates: More People Looking For Alternatives To Landfills

WBBM 780’s Bernie Tafoya WBBM 780/105.9FMplaypause (CBS) – It appears a lot of people are just itching to clean out their homes and get rid of items they no longer want, and are recycling instead of...

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Lake County To Shut Down Electronics Recycling Program

WBBM 780’s John Cody WBBM 780/105.9FMplaypause CHICAGO (CBS) – Officials in Lake County were preparing to shutter a highly successful electronics recycling program, because key funding has run out....

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Don’t Just Toss Your Old Electronics After Opening Christmas Gifts

CHICAGO (CBS) — If you got a new TV, computer or laptop for Christmas, a new ban that takes effect next week in Illinois could affect you. CBS 2’s Susan Carlson explains that the new rules impact what...

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More Cities Are Ditching Recycling Programs

Cities around the United States are scaling back recycling programs — or ditching them altogether — as China has stopped accepting much of their waste. In some places, certain plastics that used to be...

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