Reuse-a-Palooza at The Plant 3/16

Don’t miss this event incredible event supporting many local nonprofits doing the hard work to reuse, recycle, and repurpose items so they don’t end up in landfills! Here’s just a handful of items accepted this Sunday!

• socks and school supplies 🧦🧦& ✏️🖊️

• bicycles and books 🚲🚲🚲 & 📚📖📙

• tennis balls and toothbrushes 🎾🎾🎾 & 🪥🦷🪥

• sneakers and seasonal clothing 👟👟👟& 👚👖👕

• pet supplies and packing materials🦴🐾 & 📦📦

Here are some of the great nonprofits who are involved in this effort! Consider volunteering or making a donation, so they can continue their important work.

• EcoShip Chicago collects shipping materials from Chicagoland communities and distributes them to businesses and individuals for reuse.

• PAWS Chicago works to build No Kill communities, and to end the overpopulation of homeless animals through solutions, practices and education.

• PC’s for People provides refurbished computers to eligible customers for affordable prices.

• Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange is a resource to Chicago teachers, artists, and nonprofits looking to find new life in surplus materials, supplies, and equipment.

• Working Bikes gives donated bikes a new life by redistributing them as tools of empowerment in local and global communities.

• Reduce Waste Chicago empowers residents to address climate change through waste reduction on a personal, producer and policy level.

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