[Dewey-Darrow] lets participate and win in city recycling contest

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Hi Neighbors,

See below for information on the City's recycling  contest. I'm assuming we 
are all on the Thursday pick-up route . We would each  get a wheeled recycling 
cart which are so much better than open  bins!

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Excerpt  taken from the City's list-serve newsletter.

8. Winning refuse route gets  recycling roll carts

For the second year in a row, the City of Evanston  and Keep Evanston 
Beautiful (KEB) are calling on Evanston residents and  businesses to recycle as many 
aluminum beverage cans as possible during the  entire month of October, 
designated "Evanston CAN Recycle!" month. 

This  year, residents have a new incentive; besides helping the city win 
money for its  recycling program, residents can win new recycling roll carts for 
their own use.  

The City is pitting all four garbage/recycling routes against each  other; 
the route that recycles the most aluminum cans during the month of  October will 
win a 65 or 95 gallon recycling roll cart for each of its  residential 
customers.

Evanston community members don't need to do  anything extraordinary; simply 
make certain all of their aluminum cans are  placed in recycling containers 
throughout the entire month of October. Groot,  the City's recycling hauler, will 
sort and weigh the aluminum cans.  

Community members and organizations with large quantities of cans to  recycle 
can make use of strategically placed dumpsters to participate in the  refuse 
route competition. These recycling dumpsters will be appropriately  labeled 
for the competition.

Cans dropped off at the Levy Senior Center,  300 Dodge Avenue, and placed in 
the designated recycling dumpster will be  counted toward Monday's route; cans 
in the dumpster at Chandler-Newberger  Center, 1028 Central Street, will be 
counted toward Tuesday's route; cans in the  dumpster at the Fleetwood-Jourdain 
Center, 1655 Foster Street, will be counted  toward Wednesday's route; and 
cans placed at Robert Crown Center, 1701 Main  Street, will be counted toward 
Thursday's route. 

Cans for all of the  routes can be dropped off at the Ecology Center, 2024 
McCormick Blvd.  

Evanston has accepted the challenge to compete against other  municipalities 
its size in the U.S. Conference of Mayors Cans for Cash program.  The monetary 
prizes of up to $10,000 can be put toward enhancing Evanston's  recycling 
programs. 

Evanston will compete in Division Three against  other cities in the country 
with populations between 50,000 and 99,999. Last  year's winner was Des 
Plaines, Ill., which recycled 1,120,660 pounds!  

Community members without residential recycling  pickup by Groot are 
encouraged to drop off their cans at any of the listed  recreation centers or make a 
special effort to bring their aluminum beverage  cans to the City's Recycling 
Center, 2222 Oakton Street: Fridays, noon to 7  p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays: 
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Though  Evanston wasn't a finalist in the quantity of cans recycled against 
other  Division Three cities in 2007, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Novelis 
Inc. and  Keep America Beautiful, Inc., all sponsors of the Cans for Cash 
program, awarded  $5,000 to the City of Evanston to help enhance its recycling 
programs, and  $2,500 to Keep Evanston Beautiful (KEB), Inc., for the partner's 
innovative  marketing ideas.  

The aluminum can is the  country's most recycled beverage container and has 
been for more than 20 years.  

For more information on Evanston CAN Recycle, call  the Division of Streets 
and Sanitation, (847)  866-2940.






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