ARD Ideas For Associations and Organizations
- Buy recycled paper and other products for your organizations.
- Promote workplace recycling to members of your organization.
- Publish a story in your newsletter about America Recycles Day.
- When possible, fold and staple mail instead of using envelopes.
- Print membership solicitations on both sides of the paper.
- Adopt a school or youth group for an America Recycles Day event or activity.
- Volunteer at a recycling drop-off/collection center.
- Order reusable mugs with your organization's logo. Distribute them to you instead of disposable cups.
- Print an America Recycles Day advertisement in your organization's newsletter
- Encourage members to recycle and to visit website.
- Have speakers representing recycling-related businesses or facilities come to your meeting to tell members about recycling.
- Sponsor a reuse essay contest for youth in the community.
- Hold a "can smash" for members and their families.
- Coordinate a re-use or garage sale as a fundraiser for your organization.