Politics & Government
Document Destruction Event for SWANCC Residents
On Saturday, October 22, 2011, the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) will host a document destruction event as an additional service for residents in SWANCC member communities. ID’s will be checked for proof of residency.
The event will take place at the Barrington North Commuter Parking Lot (Main and Wool Streets) from 9:00 to 11:00 am. There is no cost to attend. SWANCC residents drive up in their vehicles and workers will unload the paper into toter carts. The paper is then loaded into a truck on site and cross-shredded in minutes. The shredded documents are transported to Groot’s recycling facility in Elk Grove Village and baled before being recycled into new paper.
Since 2005, SWANCC has shredded over 658,000 pounds of paper from member communities. Typical documents that can be shredded include medical forms, bank statements, personal files, retired tax forms and other documents. Staples and paper clips are acceptable, but binders should be removed.
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“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 document destruction events or other recycling information, please contact the Agency at (847) 724-9205 or visit SWANCC’s website at swancc.org.
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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.
