Help Bring the Blue Cart program to the 39th Ward!

This program will benefit the following neighborhoods: Albany Park, Brynford Park, Hollywood-North Park, Independence Park, Mayfair, North Mayfair, Old Irving Park, Peterson Park, Sauganash, Sauganash Park, Sauganash Woods, and West Walker

Blue Cart Program - Easy as 1, 2, 3

(1)   Collect your recyclables - no sorting needed

(2)   Place all your recyclables directly into your blue cart – no bags needed

(3)   Put it out every other week for a separate crew to pick up

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Be confident all your items are recycled with a dedicated cart and crew

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Less going into our landfills with more recycled items accepted

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Use less money with no blue bags to buy

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Easier and more convenient with no sorting required

 

 

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Cost is nothing and the city supplies your cart

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All of us working together to do our part for the environment

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Recycling more to conserve the Earth’s resources and energy

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Teaching our children how one person can make a difference

Each of us can make a difference!

-  Recycling one ton of paper saves 17 trees
-  The energy saved by recycling one glass bottle would light-up a bulb for 4 hours
-  Recycling 125 aluminum cans saves enough energy to power a home for one day

Thank you for your support to get the blue cart recycling program to the 39th Ward next.  The 39th Ward Blue Cart Advisory Committee gathered 2,000 paper and electronic signatures and over 300 entries for an in-school art contest for 6th and 7th graders.  The art contest asked them to create a Super Hero Blue Cart Recycling mascot. 
 
On the night of August 19, at the City of Chicago budget hearing at Falconer School, the committee testified and presented the petition signatures and the contest winners' art work to Mayor Daley and Commissioner Picardi.
 
None of this would have been possible without your help.  Until we have the Blue Cart program in our ward, we need to continue pushing on by doing  the items below.

Thank you again for your support!

Help us get the Blue Cart program in the 39th Ward by using your voice:

(1) E-mail:  Send an email to Alderman Laurino asking for the Blue Cart Program to be rolled out in the 39th Ward.
Send it to: ward39@cityofchicago.org

(2) Mail and fax a letter:  Send a letter to City of Chicago/Mayor Daley’s Office at:

Mayor Richard M. Daley
City Hall – 121 N. LaSalle St., Room 507
Chicago, IL 60602
Fax: 312.744.8045

Email us with your questions, concerns, or feedback.

This page was last updated on 08/20/2008

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