COUNTY PROVIDING RESIDENTS OPPORTUNITIES TO RECYCLE UNWANTED ELECTRONICS AND DOCUMENTS SAFELY

WHEATON― DuPage County is pleased to announce that residents are welcome to shred their personal documents free of charge.  Participants will be able to place their documents into a secured container which is then run through a shredder.  A video screen on the side of the truck will allow a viewing of the documents as they are shredded. 

This document shredding event utilizes state-of-the-art mobile shredding trucks, which are faster, more efficient, and have a high-volume destruction process.  It  will save residents time and money if they are currently doing their own shredding, and destruction is done quickly while they watch.  There is a limit of three paper grocery bags or three small boxes per vehicle.  

Residents are encouraged to bring their documents to:

Wheaton– October 4, 2008

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

JTKAdministrative Building(south parking lot)

421 N. County Farm Road

Residents can also recycle the following electronic items between 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.:

ACCEPTED: TV’s, VCR ’s, DVD players, cameras, computers/laptops, copiers, electric typewriters, fax/adding machines, external hard drives, keyboards, mice, modems, monitors, PDAs, printers, projection, audio and video equipment (excluding video cassettes and discs), scanners, radios, speakers (should not include wood), stereos, telephones and zip drives.

NOT ACCEPTED: appliances, smoke detectors and any other items containing hazardous waste.

All electronics are recycled by SIMS Recycling Solutions, Inc. No equipment is sold for resale or sent to organizations for reuse.

For more information about this program, please call the DuPage County Department of Economic Development & Planning at (630) 407-6700, or visit www.dupageco.org  and click on “waste” quick link.