Handy Resources to Help You Help the Environment
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Welcome to CARE
HANDOUT
Coming soon.
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PFAS for Consumers
HANDOUT
With all the talk and confusion about PFAS these days, CARE decided to prepare an introductory handout on the subject. Make sure to visit the EPA website link listed in the handout to see tangible steps for reducing exposure to PFAS during daily activities.
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PFAS Health Advisories
2022 FACT SHEET
Some community water supplies in Will County show PFAS levels that greatly exceed recently revised maximum US EPA recommendations. We now know these virtually indestructible, odorless, and tasteless chemicals build up in the human body, and are linked to cancer and other health conditions.
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Groundwater Protection
FACT SHEET
The Illinois EPA has submitted a new proposal to update the Illinois Groundwater Protection Act to include maximum contaminant level standards for certain PFAS, chemicals known to accumulate in the human body and the environment.
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The American Lawn
PRESENTATION
Homes, golf courses, and parks may well grow more acres of turfgrass than the U.S. devotes to corn, soybeans, and fruit trees combined. Maybe it's time to try something different.
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Life with Less Plastic
HANDOUT
Description goes here
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Resin Identification Codes
HANDOUT
Become familiar with the types of plastics in items most of us use every day. And perhaps be surprised by what's actually recyclable.
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Private Well Class
ONLINE LINK
Homes, golf courses, and parks may well grow more acres of turfgrass than the U.S. devotes to corn, soybeans, and fruit trees combined. Maybe it's time to try something a little different.