Press Releases

Will County Recycling Specialist Marta Keane has been elected to state and national roles in the field of recycling.

Three more winners have been named by the Will County Land Use Department’s Resource Recovery and Energy Division in the 50^th Anniversary of Earth Day Passport event.

The Bolingbrook Park District has become Will County’s eighth permanent electronic recycling site.

The Will County Resource Recovery and Energy Division has joined with the Health Department, Forest Preserve and South Metropolitan Higher Education Consortium to offer a passport to more than 50 ways to celebrate the 50^th anniversary of Earth Day

An estimated 58,000 books changed hands during the Will County reuse-recycling event at Pilcher Park Nature Center May 31-June 2.

Will County’s annual three-day book recycling event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 31-June 2 at Joliet Park District’s Pilcher Park Nature Center, 2501 Highland Park Drive.

Will County took in a record shattering12,298 pounds of textiles during its annual week-long collection event which ended May 3.

The Will County Land Use Department’s Resource Recovery and Energy Division, along with Joliet Franciscan Sisters and University of St. Francis, will host a free document destruction event from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 18.

Will County’s annual textile collection event will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 29, to Friday, May 3, at the County Office Building, 304 N. Chicago St.

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