Action Plan for Recycling Waste in your Community

Recycling is very important in every community. Recycling efforts in neighborhoods and local businesses keep your community trash-free and allows for materials to be reused and recycled to improve the environment.

Informed community members can play an important role in tracking down and recycling waste. Your community’s city council takes a role to empower its people by giving them information and processes in which they can participate to recycle. It is around this philosophy that awarenessIDEAS built its Community Awareness Recycling Program.

From creating awareness, developing interest, promoting motivation by demonstrating benefits, moving people to action, to giving recognition when deserved, we can be your partner in your recycling efforts.

For thirty years, our people have been helping clients design recycling-themed products and recycling process materials that track and reinforce good recycling habits. AwarenessIDEAS programs have been successfully used in communities for many years. We customize ideas and products to fit your needs. Here are some suggestions that are easily transferrable to your organization.

COMMUNITY RECYCLING ACTION PLAN

Set a standard for recycling in your community that everyone can agree upon. One standard awarenessIDEAS recommends is: "If it can be recycled, it should be recycled We put standards and practices in place to take advantage of recycling methods for all materials that we can recycle. We can all do our part." Get that message across using every avenue of communications open to you.

• Create Recycling Teams to coordinate activities throughout your community. Volunteers and social groups need the direction and assistance of community groups to organize and save recycling
• Dress your Recycling Teams in wearables that give them recognition and identity. We can easily add your community logo to any of these wearables.
• Let us create banners and posters with your Recycling Vision or Message. These can hang in your city hall, civic center or any where else that a message of recycling conservation would be beneficial. Having a parade or civic event? We will develop banners and messages to spread your goals of recycling.
• Have a suggestion contest that lasts 30 days, once every 6 months. Have appropriate inexpensive awareness gifts for thoughtful ideas. You’ll be pleased by the great ideas your community members will have on recycling.
• Use our recycling information boards to hold posters and community recycling information inserts. Make these available to anyone who desires this kind of information at town hall meetings and other social functions.
• Pass out our Recycling Tip Booklets to all your community’s families. Encourage each family to find ways of reducing recycling waste in their homes. Use family success stories in each issue of your community newsletter or local newspaper. This is a powerful way to keep your people talking about recycling conservation and their participation.
• Use recycling posters to spotlight specific recycling problems in your community.  Identifying individual problem areas in your community will lead to specific success stories.
• Have a contest each month that relates to that months recycling poster. A contest keeps the poster message alive. People talk about the problem and therefore pay more attention to solving it.
• Have a contest that encourages each part of the community to improve its recycling efforts. Give recognition for continuous achievement by citizens for being successful recycling activist champions.
• Use inexpensive awareness gifts for playing an active role recycling.  The smallest handouts and corporate gifts can leave lasting impressions to anyone in your community.
• Give rewards and recognition to individuals and teams that stay on top of recycling non-conformances in your community.

Get awarenessIDEAS involved. Have a look at our complete line of recycling awareness materials, then give us a call at 1-800-875-1725 or drop us an email at info@awarenessideas.com. Making us a part of your team will give you valuable resources and ongoing support in your efforts to improve recycling awareness in your community.