Commission to educate about recycling
TerraCycle Include USA Brita PUR
VILLA PARK – Villa Park’s Environmental Concerns Commission will offer a recycling drop-off location Sept. 10 during the village’s Oktoberfest.
The Environmental Concerns Commission also will be running a booth from noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 10 at Oktoberfest to educate patrons about what products are recyclable. Stop by the commission’s booth to get information about its recycling efforts and other environmental issues and learn what items can be recycled curbside.
Attendees can drop off pens, mechanical pencils, markers, highlighters, crayons – used, new, broken and whole – Brita and PUR pitchers, filters, packaging, faucet mounts and adapters and Brita bottles. The crayons will be taken to the local nonprofit SCARCE.
The other items will be sent to the international company Terracycle. It’s “widely considered the world’s leader in the collection and reuse of nonrecyclable, post-consumer waste,” according to its website Terracycle.com.