Styrofoam Recycling Event


When: Saturday August 10, 2024
Time: 9 am to noon (or until truck is full!)
Where: Frontier Sports Complex, 3380 Cedar Glade Dr., Naperville

What is accepted:
– Rigid Styrofoam® (expanded polystyrene) packaging, containers, shipping padding, foam coolers, etc.
– CLEAN Styrofoam® food containers – cups, clamshells, meat trays (These should be brought in clear or colored plastic bags that will be recycled).
– Lions will also be accepting used eyeglasses, phones, running shoes, key fobs, keys, brass, hearing aids, printer cartridges.

NOT accepted:
– Brown polyurethane foam
– Flexible squishy polyethylene foam
– Packing peanuts -may not be Styrofoam (take to UPS for re-use)
– Blue building insulation
– Dirty, food contaminated items

Sponsored by:
Naperville Noon Lions and Naperville Environment and Sustainability Taskforce

Thanks to Naperville Park District & Dart Container Corporation
Contact info: [email protected] — (630) 364-3922


Comments

2 responses to “Styrofoam Recycling Event”

  1. Susan Greenwood

    Hats off to Noon Lions for organizing such an important event. Hopefully you’d be able to do this on a regular basis!

  2. Whitney Glowacki

    Thank you for hosting this event! Giving people a place to responsibly dispose of a material is a great start! I wish this was an every day opportunity for people. If this event happens again, please advertise more! I appreciate what N.E.S.T. is doing.

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