Mayor Emanuel is expanding the Blue Cart Residential Recycling Program citywide in 2013. The Blue Cart program provides bi-weekly recycling services to single family homes and multi-unit buildings with four or fewer units. Recyclables are picked up and transported in specially designated recycling trucks to avoid contamination with regular garbage. Materials are taken to a city-approved recycling center where they are sorted into separate materials, called commodities, then baled or packaged for delivery to manufacturers who reprocess or reuse the materials to make new products.
If you have been waiting for the Blue Cart Recycling to come to your neighborhood then you may need to join in on one of the following meeting being held in April. These meetings introduce blue recycling carts to the neighborhoods that are getting them for the first time.
- Monday, April 15 - 6:30 p.m. Archer Heights Library 5055 S. Archer Ave.
- Wednesday, April 17 - 6:30 p.m. West Pullman Library 830 W. 119th St.
- Monday, April 22 - 6:30 p.m. Bessie Coleman Library 731 E. 63rd St.
- Thursday, April 25 - 7:00 p.m. Chicago Lawn Library 6120 S. Kedzie
- Thursday, April 25 - 6:30 p.m. Pullman Library 11001 S. Indiana Ave.
- Monday, April 29 - 6:30 p.m. West Englewood Library 1745 W 63rd St.
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