Home Electrification Savings Join the Home Electrification Savings Working Group to help fellow residents electrify their home and car, saving them money on utilities and fuel, reducing their carbon-dioxide emissions, and improving indoor and outdoor air quality! This working group will research and communicate to residents about incentives available through the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (including tax credits […]
Tag: Environment
How to take care of your new parkway tree
Posted onIn 2022 the Department of Streets ad Sanitation’s Bureau of Forestry planted 481 parkway trees across the 40th Ward. Now that it’s springtime and these trees are leafing out, they need your help to survive and thrive! If you received one of these trees, or know someone who did, the Chicago Region Trees Initiative has […]
U.S. DEA Drug Collection schedule
Posted onVia MWRD On Saturday, April 22, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. three of our water reclamation plants will be accepting unwanted medication in partnership with the National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day: Calumet WRP • 400 E. 130th St., Chicago O’Brien WRP • 3500 Howard St., Skokie Stickney WRP • 6001 W. Pershing Rd., […]
Ecolution- A 40th Ward Youth Board Celebration of Earth!
Posted onThe 40th Ward Youth Board is having its first annual environmental and sustainability fest in the ward. Please join us! We will be giving away free tree saplings, native and milkweed seeds. We will also be raffling off rain barrels from the MWRD . There will be guest speakers and some live music from local […]