Monday, December 27, 2021, to Sunday, January 9, 2022
Go Green Wilmette (GGW) is partnering with the Village of Wilmette to host a white Styrofoam recycling collection. This is an opportunity to recycle block white polystyrene/Styrofoam (PS 6), which cannot be recycled through the Village of Wilmette’s residential Refuse and Recycling Program.
Residents can drop off their Styrofoam at two Wilmette locations during hours listed below:
GGW will bring the Styrofoam to the Abt Electronics Recycling Center (Glenview, IL). Abt has a machine that processes the Styrofoam, and the resultant dense Styrene is sold to businesses that that make plastic products. Recycling Styrofoam reduces the amount of Styrofoam that washes into our lakes and streams where it leaches toxins and is mistaken for food by fish, birds, and small wildlife.
GGW would like to thank UMF Corporation, which has made this collection possible for several years with the generous loan of a cargo van to transport very large boxes filled with Styrofoam to the Abt Recycling Center.