Kane County held its first major recycling event of the year \u2013 dubbed \u201cThe Big One\u201d \u2013 in St. Charles on Saturday morning, which offered a chance to recycle a wide variety of items from batteries and electronics to clothes and bicycles.<\/p>\n
The drive-thru event at 540 S. Randall Road in St. Charles also included paper shredding as well.<\/p>\n
Vince Rucolas of Pingree Grove recently did some housecleaning so the event came at a perfect time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m getting rid of three computers and have some paper shredding,\u201d Rucolas said as he waited in his car that was in line with dozens of others to get into the event. \u201cI\u2019m glad to have the opportunity to get rid of some things in an environmentally good way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clair Ryan, recycling coordinator for Kane County, said Saturday\u2019s event was significant in that it was held so early in the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is much earlier in the year than we normally do it,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cWe wanted to have maybe less competition with other peoples\u2019 spring and Earth Month events and stuff like that, so we moved it ahead a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
A special lane was formed just for paper shredding at the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cA free document shredding is pretty hard to come across,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cThat\u2019s probably one of the biggest draws \u2013 the free shredding that happens in front of you. We hire these mobile shredding trucks that actually perform the shredding on site.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kim Valentine of Geneva was one of more than a dozen volunteers on hand to help at the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as why I do this \u2013 I believe in it \u2013 it\u2019s the right thing to do. It\u2019s great to see so many things going on with Kane County Recycling and I feel it\u2019s getting better and better,\u201d Valentine said. \u201cI want everybody to think positively about recycling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ryan said that the event usually draws about 700 cars. More than 100 cars were lined up before the event even began on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Eric Johnson of Geneva was among the many who brought paper to be shredded.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a pretty good crowd. I found out about this online and I come to things like this anytime there is an event,\u201d he said. \u201cIf there\u2019s one, I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Debbie Gurley, of Geneva, said she arrived about 7:30 a.m. \u2013 about a half-hour before the 8 a.m. start time \u2013 and like Johnson had brought along paper for shredding.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is only the second one of these I\u2019m come to, but as far as the accessibility and so forth, I think it\u2019s great,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m glad to have the opportunity and I\u2019ve thankful they offer this.\u201d<\/p>\n
David Sharos is a freelance reporter for The Beacon-News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kane County held its first major recycling event of the year \u2013 dubbed \u201cThe Big One\u201d \u2013 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,13645,227579,79,39638],"class_list":["post-498305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-geneva","tag-kane-county-recycling","tag-science","tag-st-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}