With less than “six months of life” left in the DeKalb County Landfill, the Student Association Recycling Station will now accept magazines and telephone books in an attempt to extend its existence.

The DeKalb County Landfill will be filled to capacity in less than a year unless recyclable waste is diverted from the landfill. Once the landfill is full, the waste must be taken farther away to sites in either Batavia or Rockford.

SA Recycling Director Sandy Delery said, “Basically, we have a few programs. There is a drop-off site located west of Stevenson Towers and north of Huskie Stadium. We accept newspaper, computer paper, aluminum cans, plastic milk containers, and phonebooks.”

Receptacle bins are located at the SA office and in Diversions, both in the Holmes Student Center, and in Swen Parson Hall.

“We also have curbside service available for the City of DeKalb, NIU dorms, and Sycamore. We ask that people place their recyclable newspapers, aluminum, and plastic outside their curbs on Saturday mornings,” Delery said.

The trash usually is picked up by non-profit organizations, such as the Boy Scouts and greek organizations. The recyclable items should be placed outside by 9 a.m. Saturday. Trash not picked up by 2 p.m. can be collected by calling the Recycling Center.

The organizations are required to use five vehicles in recycling drives, and receive a portion of the intake. Delery said the amount an organization collects in one day averages out to between $200 and $250.

Receptacle bins, located outside computer labs and in Founder’s Memorial Library, are emptied on weekdays by student employees. Also, bins are placed in several university offices.

Another attempt by the SA Recycling Center is to increase awareness in grammar schools. Grade school presentations were started in the spring 1988 semester.

The collected newspapers are taken to DuPage Paper Stock located in Maywood. Eaglebrook Recycling in Chicago accepts plastic containers. The glass and magazines are delivered to Eagle Recycling in Batavia.

Delery said that from July 1986 to September 1988, the recycling station collected 547.6 tons of newspaper, 74.6 tons of computer paper, 91.4 tons of glass, 2.2 tons of aluminum, and one ton of plastic.

The SA recycling center also serves as a restitution site for those individuals doing community service to pay off fines.