Waste Management Offers At-Your-Door Special Collection Service

EVERGREEN PARK, IL -- Starting April 1, Evergreen Park residents can schedule at-your-service for hard to recycle and dispose of materials, such as electronics and hazardous household materials from the village’s waste collector, Waste Management. Residents don’t even have to go out to the curb. Waste Management will literally pick up materials from your doorstep.

There are no extra fees for the at-your-door electronics and hazardous household materials service. Evergreen Park village board members approved a new contract with Waste Management at their March 5 meeting. The service works out to $1.30 per household per month. Waste Management has already gotten quite a few pickups scheduled already for that first week alone.

The village fields a dozen calls each week from residents asking for a hazardous waste drop-off day or home pickup services. Such services are handled by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and they are expensive. Village spokesman Glenn Pniewski said the service will help motivate residents to do some spring cleaning.

"This service from Waste Management comes just in time," Pniewski said. "The other great thing is that this is 'at your door,' not at the curbside. Residents can literally put these materials on your porch."

There are three ways that residents can schedule a home pickup:

• Go to wmatyourdoor.com
• Call 800-449-7587, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central Time, Monday through Friday
• Email atyourdoor@wm.com

Residents can properly dispose of and recycle home-generated special materials safely, easily and responsibility. These items may include paints, household cleaners, compact fluorescent lamps (CFL), automotive products, garden, chemicals and more. Materials include:

• Automotives: antifreeze, batteries, brake fluid, motor oil and filets, fuels and more.
• Garden chemicals: fertilizers, insect sprays, herbicides, pesticides and weed killers.
• Electronics: computers, monitors, keyboards, MP3 players, TVs, DVD/CD players, tape players, VCRs, cell phones, desktop printers, fax machines and microwaves.
• Mercury containing items: batteries, compact fluorescent lamps, fluorescent tubes, thermometers and thermostats.
• Sharps: Needles and lancets must be placed in a sealed, rigid, puncture resistant containers.

The at-your-door service does NOT include ammunition, explosives, asbestos, tires or any materials in unlabeled or leaking containers. For more program details, call 800-449-7587 or view the informative brochure.

Waste Management now provides weekly recyclable pickup for paper, plastics and glass. A new website exclusively for Evergreen Park residents has also been created by Waste Management.

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