Resource Recycling Conference, October 26-27, 2010, San Antonio, Texas. Learn how to take advantage of the economy to maintain and grow your recycling operation. Leading experts will present extensive and detailed industry assessments, including the status of municipal recycling in North America, projections of future domestic and foreign recycling market demand, the way recycling will change as we begin efforts toward global cooling, and overviews of the key trends affecting materials recovery. Included will be presentations on the latest materials recovery technologies being employed worldwide.
The Illinois Recycling Association (IRA) and Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) invite you to attend a FREE training workshop introducing the new statewide Online Workplace Recycling Toolkit, developed by Shaw Environmental, Inc.
July 28
INB Center
431 S. 4th Street
Springfield IL 62703
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
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August 11
Clock Tower Resort
7801 East State Street
Rockford IL 61108
1:00-4:00 pm
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The City of Decatur has several requests for proposals. Click the links below to view the RFPs.
There may be amendments to these RFPs, so check the City of Decatur's website to check back for any amendments before the proposal due date. The RFP’s are published here: http://www.ci.decatur.il.us/publicinformation.html
6/14/10: See new Recycling Carts amendment
The due date for the RFP’s is June 24 2010.
Participate in the ‘Put Illinois to Work’ Employment Program!
Put Illinois to Work is an initiative of Governor Pat Quinn to create jobs throughout Illinois and provide employment experience to those hardest hit by this recession. Put Illinois to Work is funded by the State of Illinois and federal funding made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Through Put Illinois to Work, unemployed and underemployed Illinois residents can be placed into subsidized employment positions for up to six months. Under the subsidized employment model, the wages of the participant are provided by state/federal funding, and the employer must provide supervision and training of the participant for the duration of the placement.
If you are a potential employer or job seeker, please review the flyers (employer PDF or worker PDF), or visit www.PutIllinoisToWork.Illinois.gov .
Recycling Economic Information Study Underway (PDF)
"U'SAgain Celebrates Earth-Month" by diverting 5 Million pounds of Textiles from our landfills
In 1970, when the first Earth Day event was held, the amount of clothes and shoes discarded in landfills topped 1.6 million tons in the US. By 2010 the amount of clothing discarded has increased five-fold to more than 8 million tons. As the Earth Day movement turns 40 years old in 2010, the strain on our planet’s resources and ecosystems is still increasing, and the need for action to protect Earth, our home in the universe, has never been greater.
USAgain (pronounced use-again), a textile recycling company is celebrating Earth day/Month by diverting over 5 Million pounds of clothes and shoes from landfills during the month of April. In an effort to conserve resources, fight climate change, and reduce solid waste in landfills, USAgain collects and reuses clothing. Together we can save our planet.
5 Million pounds of clothes and shoes reused is comparable to the following:
• Offsetting emissions from 2,900 cars in a full year
• Saving water equivalent to 171,000 swimming pools
• Avoiding the use of 1,000,000 lbs of pesticides for cotton growth
• Reducing the use of 1,500,000 lbs of fertilizer for cotton growth
By allowing these items to be reused we will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 35 million pounds.
If you have usable used clothing and want to help us reach our 5 Million Pound Earth Day/Month goal you can go to our web site at www.usagain.com to find you the closest collection box.
The Illinois Recycling Association is offering 2010 calendars for only $5 each. Click here for details.
Material Matters August 2009
Note From the President, KAB and NRC Propose Combined Operations, llinois Commodity/Waste Generation and Characterization Study Released, "Greening Illinois Together" Illinois Joint Conference 2009 Sponsors, and more
Decon '09: It's Time- The BMRA Annual Conference.The Building Materials Reuse Association's is thrilled to announce the 2009 International Conference on Deconstruction, Building Materials Reuse, and Construction and Demolition Materials Recycling. DECON '09 will be held on Tuesday, April 28th through Thursday, April 30th, 2009, on the Campus of the University of Illinois-Chicago Chicago, Illinois. For more information go to http://bmra.org/events/conference
Check out our You Tube videos and subscribe to our You Tube stream.
Request for Application for the 2009-2010 IL Zero Waste Schools Grant Program
Letters to Senators Durbin (PDF) and Burris (PDF) requesting their support for recycling components in the Economic Recovery Package
Connection between Recycling and Climate Change (US EPA)
The Latest Edition of Material Matters November 2008 -- IRA's downloadable newsletter! (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) Recycling and Reuse Act Signed by Governor, A Message from the President, From the Executive Director, Commodity/Waste Generation and Characterization (CWGC) Study, Spotlight on DCEO, Welcome New IRA Members, Member Spotlight: Real Time Freight, And more!
DCE0 FY-09 Grant Round: Request for Application posted for Traditional and Electronics grants. Applications due Dec 22, 2008.
Nomination forms for the 2009 Recycling Awards and 2009 Outstanding High School Environmental Club Awards are now online.
Governor Blagojevich Signs Landmark Recycling and Reuse E-Waste Law (PDF) New law is one of the nation’s most aggressive in protecting the environment and public from toxic substances in electronic wastes and providing incentives for reuse.
Statement on City of Chicago Recycling Program
Want to know how much electronics could be processed in IL if a law were enacted to ban electronics from landfill disposal? Check out the E-Scrap Capacity Report (1.6MB PDF)
The
new On-Line Membership Directory has been unveiled.
Click here
to view the latest information on the current Illinois Recycling
Association members.
