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Help the Schaumburg Township District Library participate in a used cell phone drive. The drive is sponsored by Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart as a means to distribute 911 Emergency Cellular Phones for Cook County senior citizens who are considered at risk. By donating your old cell phone, you will be allowing seniors to feel more secure about living and traveling independently.
Collected cell phones are free to seniors and can only be used to access 911 in case of an emergency.
Bins are now available in the lobbies of the Central Library and its Hanover Park and Hoffman Estates branches. This program will continue indefinitely.
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PACE Bus Service serves Schaumburg Township in a few different ways. This route is a local rush hour feeder to the Schaumburg Metra Station. This route is a local rush hour feeder to the Hanover Park Metra Station. If you’d like to go to Wrigley Field to catch a Cubs game, try this option or, if you’d like to catch a Bears game at Soldier Field, try this option. Feel like shopping? Take this route to Gurnee Mills or this route to Golf Mill or Old Orchard.
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The Village of Schaumburg is now collecting CFL bulbs and household batteries. These items may be dropped off at both the Village Hall and the Public Works Building. The Village Hall is at 101 Schaumburg Court and the Public Works Building is at 714 S. Plum Grove Road. Think green and drop off those bulbs and batteries!
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Run as many loads of laundry on the “cold” setting as possible.
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Also on the laundry front, reuse towels, re-wear pj’s and consider cloth napkins!
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Use your microwave when you can. Microwaves reduce energy use by about 2/3 over conventional cooking.
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Choose showers over baths and even try to cut down the length of your shower! Reducing the length of your shower from a 10 minute shower to a five minute shower will save 20,000 gallons of water each year.
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At the take out counter: limit the number of napkins and condiment packets that you toss into your bag! Even grabbing one less paper napkin can make a big difference!
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Unplug small appliances while they are not in use! For me, this meant the coffee maker and the toaster!
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When your ATM transaction asks if you’d like a receipt, choose “no!” It’s estimated that if every American skipped these receipts, a length of paper longer than two billion feet would be saved and one of the most common forms of litter would be eliminated!
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Shop at local farm markets. For me, this is actually a pleasure, not a punishment! Fruits and vegetables from local farmers are fresher, do not require fuel to transport them to market and it’s easy to find out if chemicals or pesticides were used in the growing!
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When cleaning up in the in kitchen, turn first to reusable dish towels or microfiber cloths. Microfiber cloths are especially terrific for lifting and trapping dirt and bacteria and require no additional cleaning products! If a fabric cloth just doesn’t work for your chore at hand, use recycled paper towels, like those from 7th Generation!
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When packing lunches, buy one large box of snacks and divide into little plastic containers for each lunch! Skipping the individually packaged snacks will save a tremendous amount of plastic!
Tips are compliments of www.busybeelifestyle.com
Modern Marvels: Renewable Energy by the History Channel
Available in our Audio Visual Department at DVD 333.79 MOD
“Discover how air, water, earth, and fire are transformed into clean, reliable sources of heat, electricity, and even automobile fuel, and take an in-depth look at solar, wind, geothermal, biofuel, and tidal power.”
Modern Marvels: Enviromental Tech by the History Channel
Available in our Audio Visual Department at DVD 363.79 MOD
“From the prairies of Saskatchewan to a Manhattan skyscraper, explore the 21st century’s cutting-edge green technologies taking on our most daunting environmental crisis, from global warming and deforestation to nuclear waste and resource scarcity.”
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Do you have old computers, digital clocks, or hand held games that have outlived their usefulness? Are you unsure how to dispose of them? Here is the perfect opportunity! The Village of Schaumburg and District 54 are sponsoring an electronic recycling and paper shredding event extravaganza that will allow you to dispose of items in a green and efficient way.
Who: Village of Schaumburg and District 54
When: Saturday, September 13, 2008. 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.
Where: District 54 Administrative Offices
524 E. Schaumburg Road
Schaumburg
What: Accepted items for the Electronics Recycling include: Personal computers, laptops, monitors, keyboards, electronic mice, hard drives, CD ROM/Zip/Tape drives, modems, cords and cables (power, USB, etc.), CDs, DVDs, floppy discs, UPS (battery backups), printers of all types, VCRs, DVD players, Laser Disc players, digital clocks, portable radio/CD players, speakers/stereo systems, CBs/two-way radios, telephones, cell phones, answering machines, cameras of all types, palm organizers, hand held games, video game players, calculators, joysticks/game controls, adding machines, typewriters/word processors, copy/fax/scanner machines, pagers, and paper shredders.
What: A limit of 2 copy boxes per resident is allowed for the Document Destruction event.
What: A CFL lightbulb pick-up is limited to Village of Schaumburg residents only.
For further information call: 847-923-6644
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The EPA has a simple list of things you can do to help save the environment while at the same help to cut your homeowner costs. View the EPA website for a more complete list.
1. Change 5 lights
2. Look for ENERGY STAR qualified products
3. Seal and insulate your home
4. Recycle
5. Reduce water usage
