2024-2025 Winter Outlook

October 17, 2024,  – Forecasters at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center released the 2024-25 U.S. Winter Outlook. “A slowly-developing La Nina is favored to influence conditions for the upcoming winter across most of the country, according to NOAA’s U.S. Winter Outlook released today by the Climate Prediction Center — a division of NOAA’s National Weather Service. This outlook […]

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2024 Yard Waste

Beginning April 1, 2024, we will resume our yard waste program by picking up the kraft paper lawn and leaf bags. This service will continue through Thanksgiving week, November 25, 2024. In Late March, we will deliver to every unincorporated home 56 yard waste stickers. These stickers are to be used on yard waste bags […]

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Open Burning

Part of autumn that many in the Midwest have come to reminisce is the smell of burning leaves broadcasting thru the countryside. However, burning leaves and other landscape materials may be regulated thru local municipalities, as written by the Illinois Environmental Protection agency “It depends on the local laws and ordinances as units of local […]

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Electronic Recycling

Since 1999, SWANCC has provided environmentally responsible recycling for end of life computers and electronics.  According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA.gov) – since the late 1990s, electronics or E-Waste has been the fastest-growing component of the municipal waste stream.  Additionally, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC.org) cautions that some of the materials […]

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