Environment and Energy

Recycle: Lisle (near Naperville)

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For those of you near Lisle, Illinois, if you act quickly, you can recycle lots of stuff today:

Sustainable Saturday in Lisle
Saturday, May 1, 2010
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Rice Center Parking Lot
Benedictine University

The Village of Lisle, Benedictine University and DuPage County encourages all area residents to bring electronics; car, boat and sump pump batteries; bicycles; documents; scrap metal; cell phones and more to its Sustainable Saturday in Lisle event from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. May 1. The free of charge, drop-off event will take place in the Dan and Ada Rice Center parking lot located on the campus of Benedictine University, 5700 College Road, Lisle.

Items accepted include:

Electronics (such as computers, televisions, monitors, telephones, VCRs, video games, stereos, fax machines, copy machines and printers)
All computer hard drives will be wiped clean or destroyed, and any data on a hard drive will not be recoverable by any method.

Ink jet cartridges (please no toner cartridges)

Eye glasses, hearing aids, and old keys

Scrap metal (lawn furniture, swing sets, wire hangers, vacuum cleaners, tomato cages, etc.)

Shred and recycle personal documents (limit of 3 paper grocery bags or 3 small boxes per vehicle)

Worn American flags

Cell phones

Bicycles in any condition (please No Big Wheels or toddler-type bikes)

Sealed-Lead Acid (SLA) batteries (which include batteries for cars, motorcycles, boats, lawn mowers, sump pumps and sport vehicles)*

*Batteries should be contained in a sturdy box or plastic tub to minimize handling. Residents should keep batteries separate from other items and place them in their vehicle last so that they can be removed by specially trained workers.

A complete listing of acceptable items is available on the Village’s website.

No hazardous waste, alkaline batteries, VHS tapes, floppy and/or compact discs, paint, tires, lawnmowers, or air conditioners will be accepted.

I would have posted this sooner, but I just found out about it.

11 thoughts on “Recycle: Lisle (near Naperville)”

  1. I’ve only ever recycled soda cans. But if I wanted to recycle a bunch of other junk, I don’t know if I’d want to go to a big event. A little uncomfortable, I would think, to be around people while offloading old stuff I have no use for.

    Also, I’m ignorant, what’s wrong with toner cartridges?

  2. Re: Andrew_FL (May 1 15:11),

    Also, I’m ignorant, what’s wrong with toner cartridges?

    If they leak, the toner goes everywhere. It’s a very fine powder. Toner cartridges that contain a print roller as well should be recycled through the manufacturer or a secondary source supplier. The print roller is coated with selenium, IIRC. Toxic.

  3. Andrew_FL–
    Why would that make you uncomfortable? A different group had an event last fall. I got rid of some of my Mom’s old furniture hand-me downs. We got rid of some of Jim’s families stuff. This stuff was taken to a warehouse for military families, so they can pick what they like. Our basement was less cluttered, and someone got to use the stuff. It was much better than filling the landfill or going to the trouble to advertise for some piddly amount of money.

  4. Just slightly OT, but about recycling and betting:

    Bishop Hill suggests Nigel Calder’s new blog, on which a May 1 thread is “Global Warming – Want to Bet?” The article starts by talking about the Nenana (Alaska) Ice Classic, the betting about when the river ice will start moving, but moves on to other climate bets, including the two Russian physicists who bet climate modeler Annan $10,000 on ten year global cooling, which I had previously mentioned here (thus, the recycling part). 🙂

    http://calderup.wordpress.com/

  7. A bit off-topic, but could someone direct me to the open-source project that does anomalies without requiring a base period?
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    I’m getting ready to add anomalies to the Aqua satellite project and wanted to steal that code. 🙂

  8. MJ,

    Are you talking about Jeff and Romans code? If so, try the Air Vent or Statpad.

    Otherwise, an anomaly without a base period sounds like the data itself, or pick a random offset?

  9. Chuckles,
    Yeah, I think it was Jeff and Roman’s code. I wanted to add their way of calculating anomalies as an option if I have time.
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    I’ll check out tAV and StatPad. Thanks. 🙂

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