Brian Younker hopes to reopen Orland Township’s drop-off recycling center as soon as Gov. Bruce Rauner signs a bill that boosts the amount of electronics that manufacturers are required to pay to recycle each year.
The legislature averted a recycling crisis by the House and Senate each unanimously passing House Bill 1455 in mid-May. It increases by about 13 million pounds what the manufacturing companies must pay for during the next three years — a short-term fix that’s expected to get recycling centers to take electronics again…Please click here to read Susan DeMar Lafferty’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.