The Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) is sponsoring a number of Document Destruction (DDE) and Electronics Recycling Events during spring, summer and fall months. Since 1999, over 4.5 million pounds of electronics and approximately 858,000 pounds of paper have been recycled from one-day events. There is no cost to attend an event, but residents must live in one of SWANCC’s member communities to participate. IDs will be checked for proof of residency. Materials from businesses, institutions or schools will not be accepted.
On Saturday, October 5, 2013, the Village of Rolling Meadows will host a combined event at the Public Works Facility, 3900 Berdnick Street, from 9 a.m. to noon. As SWANCC residents drive up in their vehicles, workers will unload the paper documents and electronics.
Typical documents to shred include medical forms, bank statements, personal files and retired tax forms. Staples and paper clips are acceptable, but binders should be removed. Residents will be limited to six file-size boxes or paper shopping bags per vehicle. Do Not bring paper in plastic bags.
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Under the new Illinois Product Recycling and Reuse Act, instituted on January 1, 2012, the following electronics are prohibited from being thrown away in the garbage: Computers (desktops, notebooks, tablets), Computer monitors, Printers, Cable receiver, Computer cable, Converter boxes, DVD players, Fax machines, Keyboards, Mice, Mobile telephones, MP3 players, PDAs, Satellite receivers, Scanners, Televisions, Video game consoles, VHS players, and Zip drives. Materials from businesses, institutions or schools will not be accepted.
“SWANCC’s goal is to provide convenient and environmentally-sound programs to assist residents with recycling materials, which keeps potentially harmful as well as recoverable materials from going to a landfill,” stated Mary Allen, SWANCC Recycling and Education Director.
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All paper is shredded on site by Accurate Document Destruction, a division of Groot Industries, and the electronics will be recycled by Supply-Chain Services. For more information about these companies, please visit shredd.net or supply-chainservices.com.
For more information on SWANCC’s recycling events or other recycling information, please contact the Agency at (847) 724-9205 or visit SWANCC’s website at swancc.org.
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About SWANCC:
The Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) is an intergovernmental agency that was established in 1988 and is comprised of 23 communities: Arlington Heights, Barrington, Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Hoffman Estates, Inverness, Kenilworth, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Niles, Palatine, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Rolling Meadows, Skokie, South Barrington, Wheeling, Wilmette and Winnetka.
SWANCC provides member residents a variety of waste reduction and recycling services, programs and resource materials. These include collections for special materials that cannot go into the curbside recycling cart or should not go into the garbage due to toxicity or recoverability, such as: computer and electronics, prescription drugs and sharps, compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs, holiday lights, mercury thermometers and batteries.
Visit swancc.org for more information.
About Supply-Chain Services:
Supply-Chain Services, Inc. (SSI), of Lombard, Ill., is a leading U.S. electronics recycler that currently holds the most certifications in the industry. Its seven stringent certifications encompass environmental, electronic data destruction, quality and health/safety management. SSI’s top management was invited by the US EPA as an industry representative to develop the Responsible Recycling (R2) standards for the industry over a three-year period. SSI is also the first few electronics recyclers that received the prestigious R2/RIOS certification in 2009. All the collected electronics will be processed strictly adhering to the R2/RIOS requirements. All hard drives will go through SSI’s rigorous NAID (National Association for Information Destruction) certified data destruction process by either shredding or data sanitization procedure of three wipes to ensure that all data is completely erased. SSI’s meticulous data sanitization process adheres to the U.S. Department of Defense’s 5220.22-M data destruction specification and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-88.
Established in 1997, Supply-Chain Services, Inc. (SSI) is an expert in electronics recycling and technology asset recovery management. The company manages national programs for major electronics OEMs, Fortune 1,000 corporations and governmental and educational institutions representing a wide range of industries, including automotive, consumer electronics, electronic distribution, financial, industrial electronics, information technology, medical/pharmaceutical, office automation, retail and telecommunications. SSI outperforms other recyclers in the U.S. by holding seven key industry certifications, including ISO 14001, ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001, R2, RIOS, NAID’s Computer Hard Drive Sanitization and Destruction and most recently NAID’s Solid State Media Destruction. For more information, please visit supply-chainservices.com.
About Accurate Document Destruction:
Accurate Document Destruction has been in the shredding business since 1993. They make house calls to residents for shredding as well as businesses and large corporations, who by law have to destroy their confidential material. All the shredded paper is recycled into reusable resources. With today’s stringent compliance regulations, Accurate also provides assistance to companies with shredding policies and procedures along with employee training and awareness. Accurate was awarded the “Complaint Free” award from the BBB for services provided last year and have consistently had an A+ rating. For information, please visit shredd.net.
