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...
View ArticleAlderman 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...
View ArticleLake 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...
View ArticleCounty 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...
View ArticleRecycling 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...
View ArticleLake 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....
View ArticleDon’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...
View ArticleMore 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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