County sustainability staff report battery and hazardous-waste collection progress; transfer station open house planned
June 24, 2026 | Peoria County, Illinois
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Jenny, a county sustainability staff member, briefed the Peoria County Board on recent recycling and facilities updates, reporting progress on battery collection, household hazardous-waste events, electronics collection and energy-use tracking.
She said battery-collection boxes are now at all 12 Peoria fire stations and at several libraries and that the county will hold an event for defective or damaged batteries on July 1 from 4–6 p.m. at Health and Human Services. Jenny said household hazardous-waste promotion has begun and that the next publicly advertised event is Aug. 8 at the Peoria Transfer Station.
On electronics collection, Jenny said Dynamic Recycling (Minnesota) will remain the county’s electronics processor in 2027. She highlighted outreach via the Recycle Coach platform, saying a recent push notification tied to the transfer station opening produced 6,627 interactions for the month. Jenny also said GFL opened the transfer station for business on June 8; she announced an open house in August and said GFL representative Matt Coulter was unable to attend this month but will be present next month to answer questions about Transfer Station/Landfill 3 operations.
Jenny described new public-facing tools: an energy-and-water dashboard and a story map explaining how the Health and Human Services move changed space use. She said the department’s portion of space decreased from 8,952 to 6,757 square feet (including shared space). Jenny reported the energy-use intensity at the Health and Human Services building is about 85.54 kBTUs per square foot per year versus roughly 78.73 at the prior site, and said total energy consumption fell from about 704,000 kBTUs to about 578,000 kBTUs in the smaller, consolidated space.
Board members Williams and Renault asked for a tour of the transfer station; Jenny offered to coordinate tours or provide the open-house date when GFL schedules it. No formal action on the transfer station or contracts was recorded in the transcript provided.
She said battery-collection boxes are now at all 12 Peoria fire stations and at several libraries and that the county will hold an event for defective or damaged batteries on July 1 from 4–6 p.m. at Health and Human Services. Jenny said household hazardous-waste promotion has begun and that the next publicly advertised event is Aug. 8 at the Peoria Transfer Station.
On electronics collection, Jenny said Dynamic Recycling (Minnesota) will remain the county’s electronics processor in 2027. She highlighted outreach via the Recycle Coach platform, saying a recent push notification tied to the transfer station opening produced 6,627 interactions for the month. Jenny also said GFL opened the transfer station for business on June 8; she announced an open house in August and said GFL representative Matt Coulter was unable to attend this month but will be present next month to answer questions about Transfer Station/Landfill 3 operations.
Jenny described new public-facing tools: an energy-and-water dashboard and a story map explaining how the Health and Human Services move changed space use. She said the department’s portion of space decreased from 8,952 to 6,757 square feet (including shared space). Jenny reported the energy-use intensity at the Health and Human Services building is about 85.54 kBTUs per square foot per year versus roughly 78.73 at the prior site, and said total energy consumption fell from about 704,000 kBTUs to about 578,000 kBTUs in the smaller, consolidated space.
Board members Williams and Renault asked for a tour of the transfer station; Jenny offered to coordinate tours or provide the open-house date when GFL schedules it. No formal action on the transfer station or contracts was recorded in the transcript provided.
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