The Aurora City Council recently agreed to a deal with Will County that will allow the city to hold a free electronics recycling event this year.
The council recently approved the intergovernmental agreement to allow the city to use Will County’s vendor, A-Team Recycling, under the auspices of an existing contract with county.
Giovani Santana, of the city of Aurora, said in a memo that Will County has a set weight amount of electronics to recycle and process in 2017. The county has yet to reach that amount and has offered to allow Aurora to contribute collected electronics toward the county’s total allotted weight amount.
Aurora was able to offer free electronics recycling up until December 2015. But due to a drastic increase in processing of electronics, in particular televisions and monitors, the city had to start charging for its electronic recycling program in 2016.
In the last 14 months, the city has held three electronics recycling events where residents had to pay a fee to recycle televisions and monitors.
But the deal with Will County “will allow the city to continue recycling for free, like we used to do years ago,” Santana said.
There is one restriction, and that is that residents can only bring two monitors for each household.
Will County is one of four counties in Aurora’s city boundaries. While the deal is with Will County, the recycling event will be for all Aurora residents – including those who live in Kendall, Kane and DuPage counties, Santana said.
The date of the event has not been scheduled.
