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Electronic Keyboards
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Digital Video Disc Players
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How to Recycle Your Underwear
(Really!)
We all know that it’s better to reduce what we consume, and avoid the question of how to recycle things altogether; however, we also know that sometimes it’s not practical to do without. In the case of underwear, if “going commando” isn’t for you . . . more
Recycling in Chicago
without you!
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to watch three hours of television. That's according to earthshare.org.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Makes a Recycling Promise
On April 5, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that the managed competition recycling program was going so well that he could now say that all Chicago neighborhoods would have blue-cart curbside pickup by the end of 2013. It's a long-awaited step in the right direction. And the Chicago Recycling Coalition is happy to hear about it. But . . .
. . . there are still a few issues to be resolved. For example, we still don't know what the criteria for the managed competition are. We don't have any report of how the material picked up from blue carts is being processed and recycled. Without guarantees that this is being done appropriately, we just have an expensive trash pickup. We know that revenues from the sale of any recyclables belongs to the company that does the pickup, but we don't know what those revenues are. We also don't know what revenues the city is getting from the carts picked up by Streets and Sanitation.
And we haven't heard anything about a commitment to enforce the recycling laws governing the other segment of the Chicago population--all those who live in buildings with more than four units, a not inconsiderable number in this city of towering high-rises.
So CRC won't be throwing up its hands in joy and relief and disbanding any time soon.
Blue-cart recycling expands to all city neighborhoods (Chicago Sun-Times, 4/5/2012
Emanuel: Rest of city will get curbside recycling by end of 2013 (Chicago Tribune, 4/5/2012)
Chicago Mayor Promises Citywide Recycling in 2013, Earth911.com
Electronics Recycling Law Goes into Effect
CRC research
shows way to future
The Chicago Recycling Coalition has created five issue papers that provide specific and practical measures that the Emmanuel administration could take to improve recycling, promote reuse and reduction, and capture the benefits of a strong recycling sector in every neighborhood in the city.
Click on the subject of each paper, below, to read the document.
- Recycling Revitalization
- Recycling: Economic Incentives
- Blue Cart
- Composting
- High-Density Residential and Commercial
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New blue carts delivered to southwest Logan Square
Living in the Recycling Desert Click here for background on recycling in Chicago. Questions on Recycling and Privatization (Newstips, 10/2/2011) Emanuel's 'managed competition' push goes into full swing on recycling pickups (Chicago Tribune, 9/30/2011)Managed Competition On July 18, the City of Chicago website proclaimed: Mayor Emanuel Announces Plan to Make Recycling More Cost Effective. The story, which was quickly picked up by local and national media, was about how the mayor was introducing “managed competition” to the administrative debacle that has been recycling in Chicago for more than twenty years. more . . . |
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Why Can't Chicago Recycle? (Chicago Reader, 7/22/2010) City may wash hands of curbside recycling (Chicago Sun-Times, 6/16/2010) Chicago Blue Carts (ChicagoREgen.com, 6/9/2010) How far will YOU go to recycle? (redeye, 6/7/2010) Aldermen push for more blue cart recycling (Chicago Current, 6/7/2010 Chicago launching new effort to get residents to recycle (Chicago Tribune, 6/4/2010) |
City to privatize recycling; deliver curb-side service to households Environmentalists salute Daley, challenge next mayor to do more, Chicago Tribune Gary Chico says ads, not fees Rahm Emanuel says it's all about competition in the world of trash. Daley says privatization. Will he be the one to decide? The mayor talks about privatization. Mike asks if we're sure we want to give away recyclables in a market where their value is likely to increase. Let's talk about this. The Laborers Union suggests a recycling fee. CRC's Mike Nowak asks whether politicians will even consider the proposal in an election year. |
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