By Eric Stock
BLOOMINGTON – About 100 exhibitors will be demonstrating how to live well and live green at the annual Illinois Sustainable Living and Wellness Expo at Shirk Center on Saturday.
Ecology Action Center director Michael Brown said if you want the list of exhibitors and 20 presenters don’t expect to get a print out.
“We are really try to walk the walk as we talk the talk in that we don’t provide a paper program guide or unnecessary materials like that that most likely won’t get recycled all the time,” Brown said.
The program schedule is online at www.islwe.org.
Organizers say the interactive event celebrates creating healthy communities by blending ideas for green alternatives and embracing the many services that promote health and healing. Ecology Action Center director Michael Brown told WJBC’s Scott Laughlin there will be a mega-recycling event from 9 to noon.
“These are not your regular curbside recycling things, but rather what we call nontraditional recycling, so things like household electronics, clothing, textiles, eyeglasses, hearing aids,” Brown said, adding the recycling event will for the first time accept corrugated plastic yards signs.
The expo touts itself as a zero-waste event. It runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Connect Transit is offering free rides to and from the event and a group of volunteers with the West Bloomington Revitalization Project can give your bicycle a tune-up.
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