Recycle

With the normal pick-up on pause, now's a good time to ask, are you recycling the right things?

If you missed the Free Shred Day last Saturday, no worries First National Bank & Trust will beholding another this Friday.

This Saturday you can take your old medications whether prescribed or over the counter to the Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful Medication Collection.

Have you started spring cleaning yet? This weekend you can gather up your old metals, appliances, computers and electronics and drop them off with K.N.I.B.

Today is Earth Day! Here are a few tips that we can do to help our planet Earth.

Here's a cool project to do. Turn those beer bottles into drinking glasses.

Here's a neat idea. Take household items and upcycle them into unique Christmas decorations. Heck they can even be gifts.

I recycle as much as I can. Sometimes though the plastic grocery bags I get from the stores seem to multiply like rabbits. I reuse them for trash bags but I still seem to have more than enough. Now I know what else they can be used for! The Loves Park chapter of the VFW Post 9759, takes ordinary plastic shopping bags and turns them into beds!