Did you know that it really does pay to recycle? The pop cans and old pipes laying around the house have value, and turning those items into cash is easy — if you know where to look.
The easiest items to cash in are those made from aluminum, such as beverage cans, foil and tins used for baking. Most buy-back centers in the area accept aluminum and pay an average of $0.50 per pound for it.
However, most places don’t list the prices they pay on their websites; you have to call for quotes. It pays to save up recyclables until you have a large amount to drop off. The more aluminum cans, for example, the more you’ll get for them.
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We’re all aware of the failings of Chicago’s recycling program. It started with the infamous blue bag days when much of our recycling was scattered on fields in Indiana instead of being turned back into useful resources. Then the city rolled out a selective Blue Bin pilot-program, leaving many neighborhoods in the lurch without a pick-up recycling option. Even though the city has a variety of do-it-yourself drop-off locations for unsorted items, our neighborhood decided to go a step further and start our own recycling pick-up service. Continue reading 'Recycling One Neighborhood At A Time'»
In a Sun Times article titled Is Chicago throwing away $1 million on recycling carts?, by Fran Spielman last week, we learned that there is a warehouse on the South side storing about 22, 000 blue carts.
“Thousands of blue recycling carts — with a pricetag of nearly $1 million — are stashed away in a Far South Side warehouse because City Hall bought them to make the citywide switch to curbside recycling, but ran out of money one-third of the way through. The Daley administration acknowledged having a stockpile of “roughly 22,000 carts” at a cost of $45-per-container.”
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According to Sun Times City Hall reporter, Fran Spielman and a recent article that was published, Chicago officials may be looking to privatize recycling and several Aldermen say that they’ve been informed that the Streets and Sanitation Department are already working on the plan. This news comes after Alderman Tom Allen purposed an order to City Council on June 7, that would revitalize the Blue Cart Program.
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