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For more than twenty years, Chicago's authority on reducing, reusing, recycling and advocating for sound resource management

The Chicago Recycling Coalition is an organization of people just like you – who believe that effective recycling and reuse programs are integral to a healthy environment. For more than two decades, we have provided recycling education and information to Chicago's citizens while advocating sound recycling policies for our city, county, and state.

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Honoring Ken Dunn!
Chicago's recycling legend will be honored on January 2th, 2010, with the 5th Annual Elizabeth I. Benson Award. Our president, Mike Nowak, will be the emcee, and the wonderful Bullfrogs Community Choir will perform.
Click here for more information.

CRC board member Adam Goldstein's organization, Do the Right Thing, was recently featured on ABC news about their Christmas tree pick up service. Click below to see the report.

Do the Right Thing with your Christmas Tree

CRC President Mike Nowak does an interview with WBEZ's Gabriel Spitzer.


Other Recycling News
Click here for information about . . .
  • recycling Christmas trees
  • new paper bottles
  • Mick Dumke and Mike Nowak's podcast about recycling in Chicago
  • recycling expanded polystyrene
  • and more. . .


 

Blue-Cart Recycling Slowed in Proposed City Budget (The Chicagoist, 10/29/2009)

No ban, no tax, no end in sight (Chicago Reader, 5/8/2008)

Is This Our New State Bird?
Plastic bag recycling update

On February 28, 2010, the first reports from businesses in Chicago about plastic bag recycling during the 2009 year are due to the Chicago Department of the Environment. . . .more


For a small donation, the not-for-profit recycling company, Do the Right Thing, will schedule a pick up from your residence and take the tree to a local nursery for chipping and composting. Contact them at dotherightthing_recycle@yahoo.com

Are you a "Treecycler"?

Of course, we're referring to Christmas Trees. If you live in Chicago, click here for where you can recycle your trees. If you're in the 'burbs, click here for more info from the Sun-Times.