America Recycles Day at Boneyard Creek – Saturday, October 25, 2025
Please join in on Saturday, October 25, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. to pick up litter for America Recycles Day @ Boneyard Creek (Please note the new start time this year). This event will be hosted by City staff and members of Keep Champaign Beautiful. A free pizza lunch will be provided immediately […]
Timberline Valley South HOA Holds Neighborhood Clean-Up
The Timberline Valley South HOA hosted a neighborhood clean-up event on May 31, 2025. 34 neighbors participated, dropping off mattresses, box springs, and other bulk items for disposal. The event was well planned and organized. Group leaders rented a dumpster and neighbors were asked to sign up prior to the event start. The HOA partnered […]
Campus Move In-Move Out Cleanliness
City code enforcement staff will increase enforcement in the campus area August 12 through September 13 in an attempt to prevent large accumulations of trash and overflowing dumpsters as students move in and out of their campus apartments. When problems are identified, property owners will be notified and given a short timeframe in which to […]
Registration Now Open for May Countywide Residential Electronics Collection
The Countywide Residential Electronics Collection (CREC) event this spring will take place on Saturday, May 18, 2024, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Parkland College. To attend the CREC event, residents of participating Champaign County communities must register online in advance at https://ecycle.simplybook.me/. The online registration process allows residents to reserve an available 15-minute time […]
Litter Cleanup a Success!
The City’s America Recycles Day @ Boneyard Creek cleanup event was held for the third time the morning of October 29. There were 34 volunteers, including groups from Uni High TREE Club and West Haven Neighborhood Watch, who helped make this event a huge success. With the help of our volunteers, we were able to […]
Campus Move In-Move Out Cleanliness
The City of Champaign’s Neighborhood Code Compliance Staff will increase enforcement in the campus area from August 8 through September 9, 2022, in an attempt to prevent large accumulations of trash and overflowing dumpsters. Property owners will receive notices giving them short response times in which to remove accumulations of trash. If the trash remains […]
New City Profiles Podcast Features Public Works’ Nichole Millage
You may have seen City employee Nichole Millage’s name in the news when she returned from the Tokyo Paralympics as a gold medalist in the sitting volleyball event last summer. The City is not only proud of what this four-time Paralympian has done on the court, but also for what she does every day for […]
Residential Electronics Collection Event – Fall Wrap-up
Residential Electronics Collection Event – Fall Wrap-up The fall Residential Electronics Collection Event was held on Friday, October 9 and Saturday, October 10, 2020 at Parkland College. The event is co-sponsored by City of Champaign, City of Urbana, Village of Savoy, and Champaign County. Out of the 2,118 that pre-registered via our online registration system, […]
Recycling and Donating During Campus Move-In
CHAMPAIGN – As the fall semester begins at the University of Illinois, the City provides the following information on how to recycle and donate items resulting from Campus move-in activities: Cardboard-Only Dumpsters. Champaign’s Feed The Thing program is holding a Cardboard-Only Dumpster Event during move-in time from August 16 to 25, 2019. Two cardboard-only dumpsters […]
Fall 2017 Residential Electronics Collection Recap
The fall Residential Electronics Collection Event was held the morning of October 14, 2017, at Parkland College. The event was co-sponsored by the City of Champaign, City of Urbana, Village of Savoy, Champaign County Regional Planning Commission, and Champaign County Probation and Court Services. The sponsors contracted with A-Team Recyclers to process and recycle the […]