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The Macon County Office Building is now open to the public. Visitors are required to wear a mask and practice social distancing. Masks will not be provided by the County. Each office may have additional safety precautions depending on their operations, so it is suggested to contact the office prior to visiting. To avoid crowding, it is recommended that business continue to be done online or by mail when possible.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced yesterday (3/15/2020) the recommendation that event organizers cancel or postpone in-person events that consist of 50 people or more throughout the United States. Following this guidance, and with concern for the health of the residents of Macon County, the Macon County Environmental Management Department has made the decision to cancel the April 4th electronics collection and the April 18th paint collection events and will not be scheduling any other collection events until further notice.

In response to the information made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Illinois Department of Public Health, as well as our local Macon County Health Department, Macon County Chairman Greenfield requests that residents do not come to the Macon County Building or Macon County Courthouse to conduct business unless it is completely necessary to do so.

Press Release from U.S. Dept. of Energy News Media Contact: (202) 586-4940 For Immediate Release: February 15, 2019 Energy Department Announces Opening of Battery Recycling Center at Argonne National Lab Center […]

The Ardagh glass bottle manufacturing  plant in Lincoln, Illinois expects to close its doors in late April.  The plant is a user of clear cullet, which is made from recycled […]

Walgreens has announced that it is expanding its effort to combat the opioid epidemic as it encourages Americans to clean out their medicine cabinets. To complement its existing safe medication […]

The national Recycling Coalition published a press release with a reminder to only recycle items on their local recyclables list, stating when in doubt – throw it in the trash.  […]

A looming Chinese import ban on recyclable materials due to unacceptable rates of contamination may potentially impact recycling programs across the United States. Many news items have reported on the ban, which is to take effect with the beginning of 2018, and its potential impacts.

An article in E-Scrap News, cited an analysis that concluded more than 134,000 jobs in the U.S. are in some way supported by recycled commodities exports. The analysis was a study commissioned by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) to research the economic impacts of scrap recycling.

USEPA and national nonprofit The Recycling Partnership released the 2016 State of Curbside Report, which provides insight and analysis of key curbside attributes that influence the performance of recovering household recyclables at the curb.

A new “breakthrough process” jointly developed by DuPont Industrial Biosciences and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) reportedly enables the production of furan dicarboxylic methyl ester (FDME) from fructose.

In 2015-2016, the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) led an industry collaborative to study the availability of recycling programs in the United States and the types of packaging accepted in those programs.

The USEPA released its final report on the impact of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water. The report concludes that hydraulic fracturing activities can impact drinking water resources under some circumstances and identifies factors that influence these impacts.