"Making the Most of Residential Recycling" Hosted by Elmhurst Cool Cities

Can pizza boxes be recycled? Should caps be screwed on plastic bottles for recycling? Why can’t plastic grocery store bags be included in curbside recycling?

Elmhurst Cool Cities Coalition hosts “Making the Most of Residential Recycling,” Tues., Oct. 6, 7 p.m., Elmhurst Public Library.

Richard Vandermolen, municipal services manager for Republic Services/Allied Waste, will be on hand to answer all your recycling questions. Learn what can and can’t be recycled; what items contaminate recycling, and what just one contaminant can do to the waste stream; how plastics impact the environment; trends in solid and recycling waste.

The public is welcome and encouraged to attend this FREE event. RSVPs welcome but not necessary: ecoolcities@gmail.com. For more information, call 630/426-9789.

(This is not an Elmhurst Public Library-sponsored event.)