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MWRD to participate in Buffalo Grove Green Fair June 30

Buffalo Grove’s Environmental Action Team will be hosting its annual Green Fair from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 30 at Mike Rylko Community Park, 1000 N. Buffalo Grove Rd. 

The free, family-friendly, educational event will offer composting and water conservation demonstrations, rain gardens, prairie restoration, and recycling. The MWRD will give one rain barrel to a visitor who completes a water conservation pledge. Rain barrels can be purchased on the MWRD website for $58 plus tax. Informative brochures and purchasing information will be available at the fair.

Visitors are encouraged to bring the following items for collecting, reusing or recycling:

•           Bicycles and parts
•           Athletic shoes
•           Crayons- used or new
•           Eye glasses and hearing aids
•           Keys
•           CFL bulbs
•           Household batteries
•           Small electronics - cell phones, (laptops, gaming systems, inkjet cartridges, MP3 players, cameras, GPS devices, radar detectors)
•           Gently used books
•           Gently used clothing
•           Yoga mats

For more information about the Green Fair, visit www.bgeat.org

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