Through an intergovernmental agreement, the Ecology Action Center acts as the Solid Waste Agency for McLean County, the City of Bloomington, and the Town of Normal, funded through the McLean County Solid Waste Fund. Services provided include education and outreach, solid waste planning, administration of nontraditional recycling programs, coordination of household hazardous waste collection, and technical services such as the annual calculation of the community-wide waste generation and recycling rates.
Through the McLean County Solid Waste Program, the EAC seeks to help residents and businesses reduce waste, increase recycling, and properly dispose of hazardous wastes. One measure of progress towards these goals is the annual recycling rate. Now in its second quarter (2022-2027), the 2017 Twenty-Year Solid Waste Management Plan for McLean County has a recycling goal of 60%. The full plan can be viewed below as well as the 2024 5-year update to the plan.
