Presented By: Jose De La O

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Presented By Jose De La O
Recycling

• Definition
• Recycling (noun)
• the act of processing used or abandoned
• materials for use in creating new products
  synonyms recycling

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Recycling
The U.S. EPA has prioritized integrated waste
management options in a hierarchy.  Most
communities use some or all of these
options  1. source reduction and
reuse2. recycling3. composting4. waste-to-energ
y (combustion)5. landfilling
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Recycling
Pick Ups and Drop off Dates
August 12th
Electronics Equipment and Books (Regular
Drop-Off in St. Charles 2nd Saturday of each
Month)
Household Hazardous Waste (Every Weekend-
Naperville Fire Station 4)
Used Motor Oil County Highway Garage August 26
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Recycling
Naperville

• Household Hazardous Waste
• The citys household hazardous drop off facility,
  located behind Fire Station 4, 1971 Brookdale
  Road, is open Saturdays and Sundays, from 9 a.m.
  to 3 p.m., excluding holidays.  If you have
  questions about the Citys household hazardous
  waste collection program, please call the
  Department of Public Works at 630-420-4190,
  Monday through Friday, between the hours of 7
  a.m. and 4 p.m.

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Recycling
Naperville
Accepted items include Household cleaners,
drain openers Paints (oil based only) Mineral
spirits, strippers, solvents Insecticides,
herbicides Flammables, automotive
fluids Fluorescent fixtures Household
batteries Unknown hazardous substances
The following items are not accepted Explosives,
Ammunition Radioactive materials Compressed
gas Latex Paint Trash and non-hazardous
materials Unopened, useable consumer
Other County Recycling Links
DuPage County (Entire Websites) http//www.co.dup
age.il.us/
 
Kendall County http//www.co.kendall.il.us/econo
micdevelopment.htm
Kane County (Area Recycling) Website
http//www.co.kane.il.us/Environment/recycle/are
a.htm
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Recycling

• Usually, to fabricate paper it is necessary to
  cut down trees. After its use, paper is
  carried
• into dumping (upper scheme) An important part
  of used paper can be recycled. In this way.
• It is necessary to cut down a smaller quantity
  of trees and the disposal of paper is also
  reduced
• (lower scheme). The same is valid for other
  materials such as glass, plastic, metals, etc..

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Smoke Detectors
Recycling

• Smoke Detectors, Proper Disposal
• The most common type of smoke detector contains a
  small amount of Americium 241, a radioactive
  material. Detector companies accept returned
  radioactive detectors for disposal as hazardous
  waste.
• Unfortunately the companies seem to assume
  you'll keep the instruction booklet on hand for
  the entire life of the product, and don't always
  put good contact information on the case.
• Detectors have a limited life span, usually
  specified at ten years. Testing your detector
  with actual smoke is the only way to be sure it
  will work when needed. The vast majority of smoke
  detectors are made by First Alert Corporation.
  
• Send Old Detectors to
• First Alert, Radioactive Waste Disposal,
  780 McClure Rd,
• Aurora, IL 60504-2495,
  1-800-323-9005.
• Others are made by a Canadian firm called
  American Sensors, dial 1-800-387-4219 for
  information. The companies sell detectors under
  many different brand names, and can dispose of
  any of them.

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Recycling
Used Motor Oil, Oil Filters and Antifreeze
Collection

• Originally directed towards Do-It-Yourself oil
  changers, today's used oil recycling program
  promotes the responsible management of used motor
  oils, antifreeze, and oil filters by all sectors,
  both public and private.  Used motor oil or
  antifreeze should never be poured on the ground
  or down a storm drains.  Used motor oil, oil
  filters and antifreeze can be recycled or
  "beneficially used." For information on the
  impacts of the improper disposal of used motor
  oil and the recommended methods of collecting
  used oil for recycling and reuse, please refer to
  the
• American Petroleum Institute's Used Motor Oil
  Collection and Recycling Website at
  www.recycleoil.org and
• EPA's Used Oil Management Program at
  www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/usedoil/.

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Recycling in Will and Kane County
News Events The Tire Collection Event on July
28th and 29th was a huge success.  Over 15,000
tires were collected over the two-day event at
the Will County Fairgrounds.
Landfill StandardsMunicipal solid waste
landfills are regulated under Subtitle D of the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
passed by Congress in 1976. 
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Recycling

• Did You Know?
• In a lifetime, the average American will throw
  away 600 times his or her adult
• weight in garbage. This means that each adult
  will leave a legacy of as much
• as 100,000 pounds of trash for his or her
  children.
• Illinois residents and businesses recycled 5.3
  million tons of material in 1999,
• or 815 pounds per person.
• In Illinois, we recycled 35 of all our solid
  waste in 1999, up from only 8
• recycling in 1986. Current levels of
  recycling have reduced the need for landfills
• by one-third.
• Americans comprise only 5 of the world as
  population, but we consume 25 of
• the world's resources.
• What's in the Waste Stream? The amount of
  garbage, called municipal solid waste, Americans
  generate has
• inched upwards since 1960, from 88 million
  tons to over 229 million tons in
• 2001, according to the U.S. Environmental
  Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) .

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Recycling

• Nationwide, 48 of all paper was recycled in
  2000. 71 of old newspapers were recycled 75
  of old corrugated boxes were recycled and 41 of
  all office paper was recycled.
• In 2000, Illinois residents and businesses
  recycled 2,272,000 tons of paper
• 350 pounds per person BUT 379 pounds
  per person were still land filled!
• In 2003, Kane County residents and businesses
  combined to recycle 267,000 tons of material
  1,187 pounds for every person in the County. This
  amount equals 42 of the 636,000 tons of garbage
  we generated last year.
• Every day, enough paper is recycled in the United
  States to fill a 15-mile long train of boxcars.
• The first paper made in America - more than 300
  years ago in Pennsylvania
• was recycled paper made from cloth rags.
• Recycling one ton of paper saves the equivalent
  of 17 trees, saves enough energy to power an
  average
• home for six months, saves 7,000 gallons
  of water, and keeps 60 pounds of pollutants out
  of the air.
• We recycled 94 million pounds of paper, saving
  the equivalent of 796,000 trees. Each day, 2
  million trees are cut down in the United States.
• Americans throw away enough office and writing
  paper each year to build a wall twelve-feet high
  stretching from New York City to Los Angeles.
• Last year, we recycled about 65,000,000 aluminum
  cans in Kane County (or 168 for each person).
  BUT, we still threw away 30 million cans (or 86
  cans per person).

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Recycling

• What You Can Recycle at Home.Recycling Tips
• Recycle everything you can. One can or envelope
  may not seem like much, but there are more than
  100,000 homes in Kane County, and if everyone
  does it, that one can becomes 100,000 cans that
  are thrown out instead of recycled.
• Labels can be left on bottles and cans.
• Do not recycle the caps from plastic bottles.
  They are usually a different type of plastic than
  the bottle and are difficult to separate at the
  sorting facility.
• Cardboard boxes must be flattened and cut down to
  36" x 36" so they will fit on the recycling
  truck.
• Do not put your recyclables in plastic grocery
  bags. Use paper bags and take your plastic bags
  back to the grocery store.
• Remove any plastic, foil, or scented packets from
  catalogs and mail before recycling

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EPA Informational linksFor Kids
Recycling

• Educator Resources
• Take a look at the links below for some
  interesting tools to help children understand the
  importance
• of recycling, waste management, and environmental
  stewardship! Visit the EPA's Office of Solid
• Waste, for Teacher Resources and Tools!
• http//www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/teacher.htm
  
• Visit the EPA's Office of Solid Waste, for
  the Kids' Page, including games, comics, and
  activities!
• http//www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/kids/index.htm
  
• Solve the Case of the Broken Loop!!! (PDF file)
  http//www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/kids/pdfs/4-6.pdf
  
• Help N.Trubble and the Environauts accomplish
  their Mission to Earth! http//www.epa.gov/epaosw
  er/osw/kids/space/index.htm
• Join the Planet Protectors Club and help stop
  the Garbage Gremlin! http//www.epa.gov/epaoswer/
  non-hw/recycle/gremlin/gremlin.htm

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Recycling
The Worlds Shortest Comprehensive Recycling
Guide http//www.obviously.com/recycle/guides/sho
rtest.html
Commonly Recycled Materials http//www.obviously.
com/recycle/guides/common.html
The Worlds Shortest Comprehensive Recycling
Guide http//www.obviously.com/recycle/guides/har
d.html
The Worlds Shortest Comprehensive Recycling
Guide http//www.nrc-recycle.org/resources/rei/re
ihome.htm
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Compact Discs (CD's), Repair/ Reuse/Recycling
Recycling

• Damaged CD's can be repaired, and repair or reuse
  is definitely a better environmental option than
  recycling. You have some chance of repairing
  small numbers of obvious scratches with a mild
  abrasive such as toothpaste. Work only on the
  non-label side, with strokes radially out from
  the center. Professional refinishers such as
  AuralTech CD Refinishing will repair disks for
  about 3 each and guarantee the results.
• If you just don't like the CD's, give or trade
  them at a music store or donate them to charity.
• Obsolete or unrepairable CD's and cases can be
  recycled. Recordable CD-R's have about 20mg of
  gold that can be recovered, and some processors
  can actually remove the data layer, and reuse the
  plastic disc. If you are worried about
  proprietary data, you can cut them with a pair of
  heavy duty tin shears, or place them in a
  microwave oven with a small glass of water (for
  one disc, 5 seconds on medium does a fantastic
  job, and creates a spectacular light show)
• Since CD's are not very valuable, nobody will pay
  you for recycling. Send pre-paid by UPS Ground,
  third-class mail, freight or other surface
  transportation to NESAR Systems, 420 Ashwood
  Road, Darlington, PA 16115 [phone] or
  Digital Audio Disk Corporation, Attention Disc
  Recycling Program, 1800 Fruitridge Ave., Terre
  Haute, IN 47804-1788, [phone]a

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Polystyrene Packing Peanuts, Reuse
Recycling

• Those pesky packing peanuts don't have much
  recycling potential, but they can be reused,
  which is even better. Many packing, shipping and
  moving stores will take used peanuts. Just pack
  them up in (recycled) plastic bags, and drop them
  off next time you are nearby. Suitable businesses
  can be located under "packaging" in the yellow
  pages. Typical chain stores include Mail Boxes
  Etc. and The Postal Annex. For a partial list of
  local collection sites, try the
• Plastic Loosefill Council at
  1-800-828-2214 (24 Hours).
• Some peanuts are not made of plastic. If you find
  a peanut that looks like a cheese puff, try
  licking it. One type of peanut is made from
  vegetable starch, and dissolves almost instantly
  in water. These taste somewhat like rice cakes,
  and are just as safe in a compost bin. If you buy
  peanuts, strongly consider switching to this
  type. They're better for the environment, and
  much easier to get rid of.
• Disposal of rigid foam blocks (such as those
  protecting new equipment) is problematic. The
  materials are very lightweight, they're made from
  natural gas it is easy to end up with a net
  environmental loss just transporting the stuff.
  For most individuals recycling this material is
  not worth it, though future research into local
  small-scale reprocessing may change this. If you
  have large quantities of material, a list of
  collection sites is available from The Alliance
  of Foam Packaging Recyclers.

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Disposable single use cameras, Recycling
Recycling

• Disposable single use cameras, Recycling
• Recent studies have show that, despite the
  recycling claims on the boxes, less than half of
  disposable cameras are ever actually recycled.
  Enough cameras have been tossed to circle the
  planet, stacked end-to-end. Local film developers
  often have little or no incentive to return the
  camera bodies to the manufacturers, and not all
  parts of the cameras are recyclable. Kodak has
  started to minimally reimburse developers for the
  costs of sorting, storing and shipping, but
  processors are still faced with a bewildering
  variety of types, brands, and procedures for
  dealing with them.
• Inexpensive fully-automatic 35mm cameras can be
  purchased for about 20 if you look carefully.
  These cameras will give better results and cost
  less to use than the disposables. If you must use
  a disposable camera, be sure to take it to a
  developer that explicitly promises to recycle the
  remains.

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Batteries (dry-cell, rechargeable, automotive,
button, lead-acid)
Recycling

• Battery technology is becoming increasingly
  important with the rise of portable computing,
  remote data monitoring and electric vehicle
  research. Unfortunately batteries contain metals,
  acids and other compounds that can be bad when
  released into the environment.
• Here's how to recycle the most common
  battery types
• Nickel-Cadmium batteries, Recycling
• NiCad rechargeable batteries can be recycled,
  and it is important to do so because of the toxic
  metal cadmium contained in the batteries. See the
  companion guide to common materials for the
  details on Ni-Cads
• Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH), Recycling
  Lithium Ion (Li-Ion), Recycling
• Many newer laptop computers and other portable
  use Nickel Metal Hydride or Lithium-Ion
  batteries. Battery retailer Power Express will
  accept reasonable numbers of batteries by surface
  mail or UPS Ground for recycling. Package to
  prevent electrical short circuits and send to
• Power Express Batteries, ATTN Battery
  Recycling, 14388 Union Avenue, San Jose, CA 95124
  (USA).

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Anatomy of a battery
Recycling
Relatively small but potentially troublesome
waste Most batteries contain hazardous chemicals
and are regulated as Universal Waste. These
chemicals can contaminate the environment if they
are discarded with ordinary trash. Nickel Cadmium
(Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium
Ion (Li-ion), and other alkaline and lead acid
batteries are some just to name a few. Batteries
power an ever-growing list of machinery and
cordless electronics products, including cellular
and cordless phones, digital cameras, laptop
computers, PDAs and cordless power tools. An
increasing number of companies are looking for
solutions to properly handle this relatively
small but potentially troublesome waste.
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Recycling
Batteries (dry-cell, rechargeable, automotive,
button, lead-acid)

• Button Cell Batteries, Recycling / Proper
  Disposal
• Most small, round "button cell" type batteries
  contain mercury, silver, cadmium, lithium or
  other heavy metals as their main component. These
  materials leak in landfills, can enter the water
  table, and are even worse when incinerated.
  Button Cells are increasingly targeted for
  recycling because of the value of recoverable
  materials, the hazard to the environment, and the
  small size and easy handling relative to other
  battery types.
• Many shops that replace watch and hearing aid
  batteries will accept your batteries for
  recycling at no charge. Check with a jeweler,
  watchmaker, or volume retailer like Pay-less,
  Radio Shack or K-Mart. If you have your watch
  batteries replaced, be sure to ask if the battery
  will be recycled.
• Automotive batteries, Recycling
• Automotive batteries contain lead. Lead is both
  toxic and valuable in the US over 95 of all
  automotive batteries are recovered and recycled.
  Virtually any place that sells batteries will
  take them back, most state laws require it.

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Recycling

• What Can You Save Today?
• EPA is challenging all citizens to conserve our
  natural resources and save energy by
• committing ourselves to
• Reduce more waste
• Reuse and recycle more products and
• Buy more recycled and recyclable products.