In coordination with Recycling Avenue, Schaumburg Township is sponsoring a small electronics dropoff at Town Hall. Take your used laptops, ink cartridges, cell phones, digital cameras and MP3 players to One Illinois Blvd in Hoffman Estates. They are open Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Items not accepted are computer monitors, printers, PCs, towers, fax machines, TVs, DVD players or any other large electronic.
For more information, please visit www.recyclingavenue.com
Bring your old athletic shoes to the collection bin at the Hoffman Estates Community Center & Ice Arena (CCIA) and prevent thousands of shoes from taking up space in our landfills. The CCIA is located at 1685 W. Higgins Road.
The Hoffman Estates Park District is sponsoring this event with the Chicago Wolves and the Solid Waste Agency of Cook County (SWANCC).
Shoes must be clean athletic shoes with no metal. Please no Vans, dress shoes, cleats, sandals, or boots.
Through this program, old athletic shoes collected will be shredded at Nike’s Oregon facility and made into “Regrind”, a material that goes into making new sports surfaces and fields, such as basketball and tennis courts, soccer and football fields and running tracks. Additionally, Nike donates sports courts, tracks and fields to communities world wide to encourage kids to be more physically active.
In coordination with Recycling Avenue, the Village of Hoffman Estates is sponsoring a small electronics dropoff at the Village Hall. Take your used laptops, ink cartridges, cell phones, digital cameras and MP3 players to 1900 Hassell Road. They are open Monday 8:30 to 8:00, Tuesday through Friday 8:30 to 5:00 and Saturday 9:00 to noon. The time frame for accepting electronic items is indefinite.
Items not accepted are computer monitors, towers, fax machines, TVs, DVD players or any other large electronic.
For more information, please visit www.recyclingavenue.com
State Representative Fred Crespo, in conjunction with AT&T Illinois and the Hoffman Estates Chamber of Commerce, is giving you the FREE opportunity to shred those old documents and paperwork in your home or office.
The shredding will take place at Rep. Crespo’s Constituent Service office at:
1014 E. Schaumburg Road
Streamwood
September 26, 2009 from 9:00 to Noon
There is a limit of three boxes per constituent.
For questions, or to RSVP, please call Rep. Crespo’s office at 630-372-3340.
Filed under: Local Drop-off Sites
If you’re looking for a place to get rid of your unused and/or expired medicines, look no further than the RxBOX location at the Schaumburg Police Department. In conjunction with the DuPage County Sheriff and other police departments, Schaumburg has created a dropoff facility at their headquarters. Simply look for the box with this logo!
Where: 1000 W. Schaumburg Road
When: Anytime
What is accepted: Over-the-counter, prescription, ointments and liquid medications accepted. Asthma inhalers may be dropped off in a separate zip locked plastic bag. Medications can be disposed of in their original containers or a zip-locked plastic bag. Take the label off or cross off personal information on any prescription containers to prevent any concerns about personal identifications. All medications will be incinerated in collaboration with IEPA.
What is not accepted: Sharps or needles, radioactive medicines, other medical waste or household chemical waste.
Are your closets full of everyone’s old gym shoes now that school is almost here? Has it been difficult to make yourself throw away all of those old pairs of running shoes? The Schaumburg Township District Library is happy to help.
We are sponsoring a used athletic shoe dropoff at the library for the week of August 17-23. Drop-off bins will be available at the Central Library in Schaumburg and at the Hanover Park and Hoffman Estates Branches. All shoes will be donated to Nike who will turn them into Nike Grind, a material used in sport’s surfaces, parks and playgrounds.
We will accept: running shoes, gym shoes, walking shoes and court shoes
We will NOT accept: shoes with metal eyelets, zippers, batteries, cleats or spikes. No other kind of dress or casual shoe will be accepted.
So, clean out your closets, basement and garage and help us clean up the environment!
How many packages have you opened only to have those pesky stryofoam peanuts come spilling out? As a packing material, these peanuts act as a great cushion but, in order to keep them out of a landfill, it is necessary to reuse them. In Schaumburg Township these peanuts can be taken to Pak Mail. They are one of the Peanut Hotline Collection sites and are generously accepting peanuts from the public–as well as conducting a Cell Phones for Soldiers program. So, take your peanuts and phones to:
Pak Mail
2511 W. Schaumburg Road
Schaumburg, IL 60194
847-594-3355
Now you can bring everything from TVs and computers to DVD players and more to any U.S. Best Buy store, and they”ll recycle it. Best Buy does not charge a fee for recycling most consumer electronics. However, they do charge $10 for TVs, CRTs, monitors and laptops, which is offset with a $10 gift card.
They accept up to two items per household per day.
Exclusions and exceptions are:
1. Before they accept your desktop or laptop computer for recycling, the hard drive will need to be removed.
2. Console TVs, or TVs and monitors larger than 32″ are NOT accepted.
3. Electronics containing freon are NOT accepted.
4. Large appliances such as refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, washers and dryers, ranges and microwaves are NOT accepted.
Join our National Library Month celebration this April by dropping off some of your electronic items to be recycled. The Schaumburg Township District Library, in partnership with Recycling Avenue, will be collecting any of the following items ONLY:
- Laptops/Notebooks
- Cameras
- Cordless Phones
- Cell Phones
- Ink Cartridges
Where: Schaumburg Township District Library
130 S. Roselle Road
Schaumburg, IL
When: The month of April, 2009
M-F 9 a.m.–10 p.m., Sat 10 a.m.– 5 p.m., Sun 12 p.m–9 p.m.
Info: Library 847-985-4000
Recycling Avenue 847-951-1607
Schaumburg Township, in conjunction with Recycling Avenue, is now accepting small electronic items for recyling. Dropoff is available at the Township offices at 1 Illinois Blvd. in Hoffman Estates during their 8:30-5:00 hours.
Currently accepting: cell phones, DVDs, game consoles, print cartridges, digital cameras, digital video recorders, laptops and notebooks.
Not accepting: monitors, printers, PCs or toner cartridges.
