Cook County Increasing Efforts to Fight Climate Change
2019 Annual Sustainability Report
Recent News- Dirty Dozen: Scrap Metal June 11, 2021CCDES is a member of the Illinois Recycling Contamination Task Force, a group that addresses pressing recycling issues throughout the state. To answer specific recycling questions, the task force has launched the Dirty Dozen Campaign. Scrap metal recycling has been around since the invention of metal but scrap metal has never been accepted in curbside recycling programs. […]Sarah Edwards
- Dirty Dozen: Tanglers Make a Mess of Curbside Recycling June 11, 2021CCDES is a member of the Illinois Recycling Contamination Task Force, a group that addresses pressing recycling issues throughout the state. To answer specific recycling questions, the task force has launched the Dirty Dozen Campaign. Tanglers are one of the most common types of non-recyclable “contaminants” faced by sorting facilities or Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs). But what […]Sarah Edwards
- Dirty Dozen: No Shredded Paper in the Curbside Recycling Bins June 11, 2021CCDES is a member of the Illinois Recycling Contamination Task Force, a group that addresses pressing recycling issues throughout the state. To answer specific recycling questions, the task force has launched the Dirty Dozen Campaign. While shredded paper used to be allowed in recycling carts, it isn’t any more. Shredded paper does not belong in your curbside […]Sarah Edwards
- Dirty Dozen: Keep Food and Liquids Out of Curbside Recycling June 11, 2021CCDES is a member of the Illinois Recycling Contamination Task Force, a group that addresses pressing recycling issues throughout the state. To answer specific recycling questions, the task force has launched the Dirty Dozen Campaign. At home or work when you are getting ready to recycle those everyday items, such cardboard, bottles, cans or jars, remember to […]Sarah Edwards
- Dirty Dozen: How to Recycle Old Batteries June 11, 2021CCDES is a member of the Illinois Recycling Contamination Task Force, a group that addresses pressing recycling issues throughout the state. To answer specific recycling questions, the task force has launched the Dirty Dozen Campaign. It is estimated that over 3 billion batteries were sold last year according to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. Batteries help […]Sarah Edwards
- Dirty Dozen: Disposing of Household Hazardous Waste June 1, 2021CCDES is a member of the Illinois Recycling Contamination Task Force, a group that addresses pressing recycling issues throughout the state. To answer specific recycling questions, the task force has launched the Dirty Dozen Campaign. If you have painted your house, refinished your floors, or switched your lightbulbs from CFLs to LEDs, chances are you had some […]Sarah Edwards
- Dirty Dozen – Clothing and Textile Disposal June 1, 2021CCDES is a member of the Illinois Recycling Contamination Task Force, a group that addresses pressing recycling issues throughout the state. To answer specific recycling questions, the task force has launched the Dirty Dozen Campaign. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, textile waste accounted for 8% of all landfilled municipal solid waste in 2017. In Cook […]Sarah Edwards
- Dirty Dozen: Clearing Up Confusion on Plastic Recycling June 1, 2021CCDES is a member of the Illinois Recycling Contamination Task Force, a group that addresses pressing recycling issues throughout the state. To answer specific recycling questions, the task force has launched the Dirty Dozen Campaign. What makes something recyclable or not? An item is recyclable only if it (1) can be correctly sorted using current technology at […]Sarah Edwards
- 2021 Glencoe Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event, Saturday, June 12, 8am-3pm April 26, 2021The Village and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency are sponsoring a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event on Saturday, June 12, 2021 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Southeast Metra Commuter Parking Lot (290 Park Avenue, Glencoe, IL). This free collection event is open to all Illinois residents and is for personal residential household hazardous waste only. […]Sarah Edwards
- Where to Recycle Your Christmas Tree or Broken Holiday Lights January 7, 2021Not sure what to do with your live tree and old or broken light strings post-holidays? There are many opportunities to recycle these items in Cook County. Make your holiday season a little more sustainable this year by keeping holiday waste out of the landfill. Drop-off sites open to all Cook County residents: […]Sarah Edwards
- Dirty Dozen: Scrap Metal June 11, 2021
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A Message from the President
I believe that Cook County should be a world-class model of sustainability. We are working not only to boost sustainability practices throughout County government, but also to join forces with local governments, nonprofits and business, to accomplish more than we could separately in making each of Cook County’s communities sustainable. To further this work, I appointed Deborah Stone as the County’s first Chief Sustainability Officer, and as Director of the Department of Environmental Control. I also recognize that Cook County needs to share ideas and collaborate with a diverse group of community leaders and sustainability experts. In March 2012, I appointed the Cook County Sustainability Advisory Council to help lift our vision higher and give us access to best practices. You can meet the Council members and read more about their mission in the “Advisory Council” section of this website. Toni Preckwinkle,Cook County Board President
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