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• CFL Bulbs Accepted at Various Ace Hardware Stores

  May 16th, 2008

  
  

  Ace Hardware stores in Montana, Utah and South Dakota are now accepting CFL bulbs for recycling.

  
  

• EPA Announces Student Contest Winners

  April 23rd, 2008

  
  

  EPA awarded six student groups last night as part of the People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) competition to produce future environmentally-friendly and profitable technologies.

  
  

• Champaign to Hold April Event to Recycle Electronics

  March 24th, 2008

  
  

  Champaign residents can unload their obsolete electronics at the University of Illinois Waste Transfer Station on April 19.

  
  

• U.S. Postal Service Launches Free E-waste Recycling Program

  March 19th, 2008

  
  

  The United States Postal Service and Clover Technologies have partnered to provide consumers with free postage for the recycling of certain small electronic devices.

  
  

• Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge

  March 12th, 2008

  
  

  The EPA Great Lakes office has created the 2008 Earth Day Challenge with a goal of recycling one million pounds of electronics and one million pounds of pharmaceuticals in states that border the Great Lakes.

  
  

• Plastic Bags Tough to Recycle, Tougher to Ban

  February 1st, 2008

  
  

  A Lake County, Illinois task force wants to reduce plastic bag waste throughout the state, but will attempt to do so without banning plastic bags in retail stores.

  
  

• School Group Decides to Use $100,000 for Recycling

  January 28th, 2008

  
  

  A group of Illinois schools have partnered to recycle paper in classrooms as part of a $100,000 grant given to the local office of education.

  
  

• Keep Salem Beautiful to Provide Recycle Bins for Residents

  January 25th, 2008

  
  

  Salem, Illinois is offering free recycling bins to residents on three different occasions in hopes of increasing recycling participation.

  
  

• Students Learning Value of Recycling

  January 21st, 2008

  
  

  Lompoc High School’s Recycle to Read program collects and hauls bottles and cans to the local recycling center and raises $80 a week.

  
  

• Students Vie to Recycle Most Paper

  January 8th, 2008

  
  

  An Illinois middle school recycled almost 7,000 pounds of paper in December as part of a paper recycling contest put on by Abitibi Consolidated recycling company.