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Area sees e-waste recycling boom More than a half-million pounds of electronics have been dropped off since last year By ADAM POULISSE apoulisse@shawmedia.com Thousands of pounds of waste have been recycled by county residents since last March, but it’s not the traditionally gross, grimy trash. More than a half-million pounds of electronics have been dropped off at sites in DeKalb, Sycamore and Genoa, including computers, TVs, printers, cellphones, batteries and video games since last year. That’s when the county hired New Life Electronics Recycling in Oswego to replace a former contract with Chicago-based Environmentally Responsible Company that left

the county unsatisfied. “This company provided us with statistics that we never had before,” said Fred Busse, director of Public Works in Sycamore. “We went to this company because the reliability of the last company was not as desirable.” Once the hardware is separated, dismantled and then salvaged, it’s a boon for “precious matters,” such as plastic, copper, aluminum, glass and even lead, New Life President Matt Gatz said. “We dismantle our electronics on site as far as we can,” he said. DeKalb received the largest amount of electronic waste

Waste Management won’t pick up electronic waste, or e-waste – they’ll just leave it sitting on the curb. However, Here’s where you can take that old tube TV or other electronic waste: as it was with ERC, the partDeKalb: From 9 to 11 a.m. on the first Saturday of each month at nership with New Life estabGrove and South Fourth streets lished e-waste collection spots Genoa: From 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. on the first Saturday of each month that rotate between DeKalb, at City Hall, 333 E. First St. Genoa, Sandwich, Sycamore Sandwich: From 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. on the second Saturday of each and Waterman. month at East Water Tower, 750 Duvick St. “We worked with the counSycamore: From 9 to 11 a.m. on the third Saturday of each month at ty and got everything up and the Public Works Building, 475 N. Cross St. running, then provided the Waterman: From 9 to 11 a.m. on the fourth Saturday of even-numsites for New Life to give resbered months only at the city lot on Route 30 idents a place to drop off their old [electronics],” Espy said. during the year-long period, to- see TV weights go up conSycamore has received taling 234,591 pounds, and saw siderably,” said Mark Espy, 160,193 pounds of recycled an increase in recycled TVs af- DeKalb’s assistant director of e-waste since last year, 36,584 ter the first of the year. Public Works. “Everyone gets pounds of which were donat“After Christmas, you new TVs.” ed since the beginning of the

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year. “I do know some old TV sets, especially that Sony made, that were 30-inchers and weighed a lot,” Busse said. The e-waste drop-off points are a result of a 2012 state law that forbade all electronics from being dumped into landfills. However, it did result in some problems. “We started noticing large volumes of TVs sitting curbside,” Espy said. “This law created that problem.” Genoa has collected 124,222 since last March. “It’s pretty amazing,” said Jan Torres, finance office manager. “It’s nice that they’re being recycled, that’s for sure.”

Defense admits Tsarnaev bombed Boston Marathon By DENISE LAVOIE The Associated Press

Photos by Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com

Brazilian native Paulo Padilha (center) sings and plays tambourine Monday while DeKalb High School choir members Andre Allen (left) and Matthew Petersen sing and play shakers during the workshop Padilha and his group put on for music classes in the DeKalb High School auditorium.

World rhythms Partnership with arts group brings international acts to DeKalb By DARIA SOKOLOVA dsokolova@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Brazilian musician Paulo Padilha has traveled the world performing with his eponymous band, but he said he had never seen as much snow as he saw in DeKalb where he performed for high school students on Monday. The four musicians in Paolo Padilha and Group, whose music combines contemporary music with traditional Brazilian rhythms, shook tambourine and various other percussion instruments,

including a bass drum called a zabumba, as dozens of high school students tuned into the mix of traditional Brazilian music and modern beats. “The weather is very cold for us because now in Brazil [it is] summer,” said Padilha who said he had only seen snow three times. “We never have these temperatures in Brazil, and we have no snow there. So for us, this is something different.” Two-and-a-half years ago, educators at DeKalb High School began a collaboration

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Paulo Padilha blows a kiss of approval to the DeKalb High School choir class after singing Monday.

BOSTON – The question, for all practical purposes, is no longer whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev took part in the Boston Marathon bombing. It’s whether he deserves to die for it. In a blunt opening statement at the nation’s biggest terrorism trial in almost 20 years, Tsarnaev’s own lawyer flatly told a jury the 21-yearold former college student committed the crime. “It WAS him,” Dzhokhar s a i d d e f e n s e Tsarnaev attorney Judy Clarke, one of the nation’s foremost death-penalty specialists. But in a strategy aimed at saving Tsarnaev from a death sentence, she argued that he had fallen under the malevolent influence of his now-dead older brother, Tamerlan. “The evidence will not establish and we will not argue that Tamerlan put a gun to Dzhokhar’s head or that he forced him to join in the plan,” Clarke said, “but you will hear evidence about the kind of influence that this older brother had.” Three people were killed and more than 260 hurt when two shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs exploded near the finish line on April 15, 2013. Tsarnaev, then 19, was accused of carrying out the attacks with 26-year-old Tamerlan, who was killed in a shootout and getaway attempt days later.

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Authorities contend the brothers – ethnic Chechens who arrived from Russia more than a decade ago – were driven by anger over U.S. wars in Muslim lands. Federal prosecutors used their opening statements, along with heartbreaking testimony and grisly video, to sketch a picture of torn-off limbs, ghastly screams, pools of blood and the smell of sulfur and burned hair in the streets of Boston. They painted Tsarnaev as a cold-blooded killer. Tsarnaev planted a bomb designed to “tear people apart and create a bloody spectacle,” then hung out with his college buddies as if he didn’t have a care in the world, prosecutor William Weinreb said. “He believed that he was a soldier in a holy war against Americans,” Weinreb said. “He also believed that by winning that victory, he had taken a step toward reaching paradise.” Among the first witnesses for the prosecution were two women who lost legs in the attack, including Rebekah Gregory, who walked slowly to the stand on an artificial limb. “I remember being thrown back, hoisted into the air,” said Gregory, who had gone to watch the race with her 5-year-old son, Noah. “My first instinct as a mother was, where in the world was my baby, ‘where was my son?’ ” She said someone finally picked up her son and put him down beside her. Breaking down in tears, she testified that as she looked for the boy, she saw a woman dead on the pavement.

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