Ecology Action Center

Appointments to drop off household hazardous waste Saturday at the Rivian auto plant in Normal are running below what organizers hoped would come in.

Recycling advocates in McLean County say their industry is not in crisis, despite some media reports to the contrary.

Normal will enact a 2 percent water fee increase as part of the annual budget council members approved Monday night.

Homes and businesses in Bloomington-Normal planning to use solar energy are getting a price break.

After 10 years of careful monitoring, the McLean County Landfill is expected to reach capacity and close Sunday.

It's now easier to recycle in downtown Bloomington.

Ecology Action Center is using a grant to set up four permanent recycling containers on the four corners of the McLean County Museum of History property.

EAC Director Michael Brown said the goal now is to make sure the 90,000 people who come downtown annually actually use them.

“That’s education and that’s the work we’ve been doing now for well over 40 years; use education and outreach and trying to promote these behaviors,” Brown said.

Normal’s Ecology Action Center (EAC) plans to bring curbside recycling to more residents through a new needs-based program.

Recycling rates in McLean County are approaching 42 percent, according to the Normal-based Ecology Action Center. That total eclipses the 40 percent annual benchmark for the second year in a row. 

The public will get its first look at the Town of Normal’s proposed multifamily recycling ordinance during an information session Thursday.

The Ecology Action Center said Tuesday that McLean County residents will soon have a more “reliable and sustainable” e-waste recycling option even after two nonprofits stop accepting old TVs and computers.

The Ecology Action Center is bringing back a program that will make it easier (and cheaper) to convert your home or business to solar power.

Students can learn what gives the Prairie State its name this summer thanks to a grant program that pays for field trips to study Illinois' biodiversity.

Swingers Grille in Normal has closed, the restaurant announced Monday on its Facebook page.

The head of the Ecology Action Center said he's pleased with the weekend household hazardous waste collection event.

The percentage of McLean County solid waste diverted to recycling and away from the landfill has pushed past a goal set in 2007.  

The community's mayors have signed the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda. 

Town of Normal Mayor Chris Koos and Bloomington Mayor Tari Renner both joined more than 250 other mayors in following the U.N. Paris Climate Accord even though President Trump announced he'd pull the U.S. from pact.

During GLT's Sound Ideas, Koos says cities are "ground zero for action in ameliorating these issues."