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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Ruthy Harris, Property Standards Manager
DATE: January 31, 2022
SUBJECT:
A Resolution authorizing the City of Aurora to enter into an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with Will County that will allow the City of Aurora to host electronic recycling events under the umbrella of Will County's state funded contract.
PURPOSE:
To authorize the City of Aurora to enter into an IGA with Will County that will allow the City of Aurora to host electronic recycling events to begin in 2022 through 2025.
BACKGROUND:
The State of Illinois passed the Electronic Products Recycling and Reuse Act (the "Act"), banning certain electronics from landfills, effective January 1, 2012. The City of Aurora was able to offer free electronics recycling up until December 2015. Beginning in 2016 the City implemented a cost based electronic recycling program where residents had to pay a fee to recycle either televisions or any kind of monitors. In 2017 the City entered into a similar IGA with Will County that allowed the City to hold an electronic recycling event with no fees for the residents.
DISCUSSION:
Will County has a contract with a State certified company that has allotted Will County a set weight amount of electronics to recycle and process from 2022 through 2025. Will County has yet to reach that amount and has offered to allow the City of Aurora to contribute collected electronics toward their total allotted weight amount.
The City will host an electronic recycling event using Will County's vendor, A-Team Recycling (who is the only local approved recycler) and would not have to pay processing costs for any electronics collected at the event. The total weight of materials collected would be submitted under Will County's "budgeted" amount of electronics.
IMPACT STATEMENT:
This IGA will allow the City of Aurora and Will County to work together, while providing electronic recycling free of charge to our residents.
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