Turn back your clocks…or just turn them in.

Daylight Savings Clean Up and Green Up, a free community-wide recycle, repurpose and reuse event put on by Michigan Green Consortium, will be held from 10am until 3pm on Sunday, November 7, 2010 on Parking Lot B in downtown Traverse City. The event encourages residents to use the hour gained from the time change to participate, personally, in helping to preserve the environment.

The list of items that will be accepted is broad-ranged from #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 and #7 plastics to wine bottles and pumpkins; from bubble wrap to wrought iron; from lawn mower and edgers to Styrofoam and plastic grocery bags. More than a dozen businesses will be on-site accepting a variety of difficult-to-recycle items. For a comprehensive list of what is acceptable and the sponsor partner that will accept it, please consult our event website, www.cleanupgreenup.com.
The Michigan Green Consortium, established in 2008, is a non-profit organization of member companies, all businesses with sustainability as a core initiative, either as a product or service offered, or as their corporate culture. Its mission is to develop, expand and grow the Michigan economy through encouraging the development of and promoting growth for green and sustainable business.

To learn out more about Michigan Green Consortium and their Daylight Savings Clean Up and Green Up event, visit the event website at www.cleanupgreenup.com or Michigan Green Consortium’s website at www.mgconline.org, or call (231) 947-1688.