Traditional Recycling Drop Offs
Summary of Traditional Recycling Drop-Offs:
- Recycling saves natural resources.
- Recycling saves landfill space and controls disposal costs.
- Recycling creates local and regional jobs.
Will County partners for Recycling Drop-Offs:
- Channahon Township
- City of Lockport
- New Lenox Township
- Plainfield Township
- Reed-Custer School Dist/Reed Township
- Troy Township Highway Department
- Washington Township/Village of Beecher
Drop-Off Instructions
- Bag shredded paper.
- Bring all residentially or business generated recyclable materials to the drop-off site during operational hours.
- Remove materials from your vehicle.
- Empty plastic bags (excluding bags of shredded paper) of recyclables into the dumpster.
- Close lids to prevent blowing of materials or litter issues.
- DO NOT TAKE any items that have already been dropped off. Once items have been placed in the box they are part of the Recycling Program.
Items Accepted
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Fiber Items: White Paper / Copy Paper
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Greeting Cards
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Containers:
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Colored Paper
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Gift Wrap
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Aluminum Cans / Foil / Trays
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Construction Paper
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Paper Bags
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Steel / Tin Cans
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Office Paper
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Magazines/ Catalogs/ Phone Books
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All Plastic Bottles (lids may remain on)
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Letterhead
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Soft Cover Books
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Plastic Containers (except Styrofoam)
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Computer Paper
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Notebooks
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Glass Bottles (clear, green, brown)
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Unwanted/Junk Mail
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Manila Folders
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Envelopes with or without windows
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Calendars
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Milk & Juice Cartons / Drink Boxes
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Adhesive Note Paper (Post-Its©)
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Newspaper
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Empty Aerosol Cans
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Fax Paper / Coated Paper
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Chipboard (tissue & pasta boxes)
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Scrap Paper / Shredded Paper
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Corrugated Cardboard (must flatten)
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Empty, dried out paint cans |
What happens to the items recycled?
All the materials placed in the bins will go to a recycling processing facility where they will be sorted by type. (see a video at: http://www.illinoisrecycles.org/VirtualTour/index.php)
Aluminum cans will be zapped into one pile, steel will be magnetically lifted to another and plastics will be hand sorted. The paper will be similarly sorted by types. Then the materials are made into large bales (like hay bales-but bigger!), loaded into semi-trucks and taken to manufacturers.
At the manufacturer, paper will be dropped into vats of water. It will be pressed and rolled out into new paper products. Magazines may become copy paper, office paper may transform into newspaper and newspaper may be part of your next tissue.
Soda pop cans usually become soda pop cans again, often in less than 6 weeks! A soup can may become a steel beam or a file cabinet. Soda pop bottles usually become carpeting while milk jugs and laundry bottles may become maintenance-free decking.
Recycling one ton of paper saves 6,953 gallons of water, 463 gallons of oil, 587 pounds of air pollution, 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space, 4,077 Kilowatt hours of energy and 17 trees. Recycling just one aluminum can or glass bottle saves enough energy to power your computer for 3 hours.
The point is that all the items collected have markets; they will become new items and in the process create jobs, save landfill space and reduce natural resource consumption.
Recycling at home, at school, at work and at play just makes sense!
Traditional Recycling Drop-Off Locations:
Beecher-County Partnership Washington Twp
30200 Town Center
708-946-2026
Hours:
Tuesday & Thursday 7am-3pm
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Braidwood
Reed-Custer School District and
Reed Township
255 Comet Drive
815-458-2307
Hours:
24 hrs, 7 days a week
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Channahon
Channahon Township
25461 S Fryer Street
(Seven blocks South of Rt. 6, turn at Subway)
815-467-2699
Hours:
Saturday 8am-2pm year-round
Wed 3pm-7pm March - October
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Crete
Crete Lions Club (independent)
17112 Douglas Rd
708-672-457
Hours:
Monday-Friday 7am-9am
Saturday 7am-12pm
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Godley
Godley Park District
500 S. Kankakee St
815-458-6129
Hours:
Monday-Friday 7:00am-4:30pm
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New Lenox
New Lenox Township
1100 S. 1Cedar
815-485-6431
Hours:
Monday-Friday 8:00am-3:30pm
4th Sat of the Month 9am-Noon
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Lockport
City of Lockport
17112 Prime Blvd
(East of I-355 overpass)
815-838-0549 x 8
Hours:
24 hrs, 7 days a week
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Plainfield
Plainfield Township
22525 W. Lockport Road,
(West of Weber, near I-55 overpass)
815-436-8308
Hours:
24 hrs, 7 days a week
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Shorewood
Troy Township Highway Department
25358 Seil Road,
(West from River Rd & Seil)
815-467-6892
Hours:
24 hrs, 7 days a week
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Wilmington
Prairie View Landfill
29755 S Prairie View Dr.
815-423-5120
Hours:
Monday-Friday 6am-3pm
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Please view our Green Guide Database for more Traditional Recycling locations!
Paper Recycling Drop-Offs - Independent of the County
An independent company provides paper recycling opportunities to businesses and residents at school and church locations throughout Will County. For a list of acceptable items and locations visit
AbitibiBowater's Paper Retriever
Multi-family/Apartment Recycling - Information on starting a program
Many people that rely on Recycling Drop-Off locations live in multi-family buildings such as condominums or apartment buildings that are not included in municipal contacted residential collection services. People in these situations often require special assistance in setting up their program and educating maintanence staff and neighbors. The City of Chicago and New York each prepared brief presentations for the US EPA on how to start recycling in these situations.