Miller said Algonquin Township and one in Cook County will be the only organizations to continue municipal paint recycling after the Illinois EPA discontinued support for the program last November as the State fell further and further behind paying its bills.
Since 1997 "We've kept 200,000 gallons of paint out of the waste stream for a little over $300,000," Miller said but warned the program would have to be modified a little to hold costs down.
Paint dropoff has always been in theory only for Algonquin Township residents but Miller said workers haven't been to zealous about enforcing that. ("Some of the people pull up with Wisconsin plates, that's a dead giveaway.") This year Miller said workers will card paint recyclers and if they don't live in the township charge a $5 per car non-resident fee.
He also said workers may not be quite so picky in deciding which paint is good enough to save for reuse and which is dreck requiring incineration.
Algonquin Township's Recycling Center will open this season at the Township headquarters on Route 14, Crystal Lake March 27. Besides paint the center accepts aluminum, glass, plastic, paper, motor oil, tree branches and, on the fourth Saturday of each month, computer junk.
The Township's Recycling Center page is here, although it hasn't been updated with the latest changes yet:
http://www.algtwsp.com/recyclingcenter.html
In the pic: Algonquin Township paint recyclers combine partial cans of paint into five-gallon buckets for use by environmentally aware or simply cash-strapped residents.
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