Sustainability Market 2024

Put on your reusable party hat and join us at our annual Sustainability Market. Stop by and visit with 20+ local small businesses, artists and organizations focused on making Chicago more sustainable!

What’s happening at the Sustainability Market this year?

Material collections

Bring your unwanted items that can be reused, repurposed or are difficult to recycle. Please read the lists of accepted items carefully:

• Reduce Waste Chicago accepted collection items
• EcoShip accepted collection items
• Rebuilding Exchange items are on the Reduce Waste Chicago list

Halloween costume swap

Looking for a costume for the trick-or-treater in your life? Or how about unloading an old one? Check out the costume swap! New costumes are free to take and unclaimed costumes will go to Chicago Green Theatre Alliance for their annual swap with Conscious Costume. (More details coming soon!)

Food & Drink

Eat, drink, and stay hydrated – sustainably! Lincoln Cafe & Market will be providing breakfast sandwiches, lunch sandwiches, cold brew coffee, hot coffee and a Glow Superfood non-dairy ice cream cart. Free hydration will be available, courtesy of Open Water. Food will be served in compostable materials provided by WasteNot Compost, which will be providing on-site composting and aluminum recycling, too! Ice cream package recycling will be available at Lincoln Cafe & Market’s booth.

Music

Come for the sustainability, stay for live performances by musician Louise Kelly and local band Ravenswood from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.