Document Destruction and Electronics Recycling Event for SWANCC Residents in Rolling Meadows

During fall 2011, the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) will be sponsoring community Document Destruction Events (DDE) and Electronics Recycling Events (ERE) to assist residents with responsible recycling options.  There is no cost to attend, but the scheduled events are for residents that live in SWANCC member communities and IDs will be checked for proof of residency.

The Village of Rolling Meadows will host a combined DDE and ERE event on Saturday, October 1, 2011, at the Rolling Meadows Public Works Facility, 3900 Berdnick Street, from 9 a.m. to noon. Residents simply drive to the location and workers will unload the paper documents and electronics.  All paper is shredded by Accurate Document Destruction, a division of Groot Industries, on site, and the electronics will be recycled by Supply-Chain Services.  For more information about these companies, please visit shredd.net or supply-chainservices.com.

Typical documents that can be shredded include medical records, bank statements, personal files, retired tax forms, etc.  Staples and paper clips are acceptable, but binders should be removed.  Residents will be limited to six banker-sized boxes of documents per event.

Under the new Electronics Products Recycling and Reuse Act (SB2313), ONLY the following electronics will be accepted at SWANCC-sponsored events: Computers, DVD Players, DVR/Cable Boxes, Fax Machines, Mobile Phones, Monitors, MP3 Players, PDAs, Peripherals (mice, keyboards, zip drives), Printers, Scanners, Televisions , VHS Players and Video Game Consoles.

Materials from businesses, institutions or schools will not be accepted.

Since 1999, through SWANCC-sponsored events, over 4,000,000 (four million) pounds of electronics have been recycled and since 2005, approximately 658,000 pounds of paper has been shredded and recycled.  “SWANCC’s goal is to provide convenient and environmentally-sound programs to assist residents with recycling materials. Due to their efforts, old materials will be made into new products,” stated Mary Allen, SWANCC Recycling and Education Director.

For more information on SWANCC’s recycling events or other recycling information, please contact the Agency at (847) 724-9205 or visit SWANCC’s website at swancc.org.

About SWANCC:
The Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) is an intergovernmental agency that was established in 1988 and is comprised of 23 communities: Arlington Heights, Barrington, Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Hoffman Estates, Inverness, Kenilworth, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Niles, Palatine, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Rolling Meadows, Skokie, South Barrington, Wheeling, Wilmette and Winnetka.

SWANCC provides member residents a variety of waste reduction and recycling services, programs and resource materials. These include collections for special materials that cannot go into the curbside recycling cart or should not go into the garbage due to toxicity or recoverability, such as: computer and electronics, prescription drugs and sharps, compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs, mercury thermometers, athletic shoes, holiday lights and batteries. 

Visit swancc.org for more information.

About Supply-Chain Services:
Supply-Chain Services, Inc. (SSI), of Lombard, Ill., currently holds six stringent certifications for environmental, quality and health and safety management, as well as data security. All hard drives will go through SSI’s rigorous NAID (National Association for Information Destruction)-certified data sanitization process that requires a minimum of three wipes to ensure that the drives are completely erased. This data sanitization process adheres to the U.S. Department of Defense’s 5220.22-M strict data destruction specification.

Established in 1997, Supply-Chain Services, Inc. (SSI) is a leader in electronics recycling and technology asset recovery management. The company manages national programs for major electronics OEMs, Fortune 1,000 corporations and governmental and educational institutions representing a wide range of industries, including automotive, consumer electronics, electronic distribution, financial, industrial electronics, information technology, medical/pharmaceutical, office automation, retail and telecommunications. SSI outperforms other recyclers in the U.S. by holding six key industry certifications, including ISO 14001, ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001, R2, RIOS and NAID’s Computer Hard Drive Sanitization and Destruction. For more information, please visit supply-chainservices.com.