Recycling Advocate Service Patch Program® from Youth Squad®

• If you haven’t already done so, complete the recycling worksheet from the Recycling Volunteer Patch Program®.
• Do you feel that your town could be doing more about recycling?
• Do you feel that your school could be doing more about recycling?
• Is it expensive to recycle? Helpful Link: Do the Benefits of Recycling Outweigh the Costs?
• Do restaurants recycle? Helpful Link: Restaurants weigh costs, benefits of recycling
  
• Do other types of businesses recycle? Helpful Link: Survey Looks at How, Why Businesses Recycle
• What is the recycling policy in your area? Helpful Link: Recycling Laws By State
• What is the Federal Green Challenge? Helpful Link: About the Federal Green Challenge

• How do you recycle
  Helpful Link: electronics? Helpful Links: Certified Electronics Recyclers, Staples Recycling Solutions
• What is the Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Electronics Challenge? Helpful Link: About the SMM Electronics Challenge
• How do you recycle batteries and cell phones? Helpful Link: Find a drop-off location near you
  
  

• Advocate for changes in your school recycling program.
• Advocate for students to use the recycling bins in your school.
• Educate your neighbors about proper disposal of items like electronics and batteries.
• Make your neighbors aware of the recycling guidelines in your area.
• Create a recycling map of your community and use social media to promote it.

• Get a business in your area to join the Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Electronics Challenge

• Your Family
• Neighbors
• Politicians — Helpful link: How to Contact Your Elected Officials

• Classmates
• Your Fellow Worshipers
• Other Groups or Organizations

• Talk to them. Consider wearing a button as a conversation starter.
• Hand out flyers. Consider setting up a booth to collect donations if allowed.
• Hang tags on doors and mail boxes.

• Make posters.
• Reach out with social media such as Facebook.
• Send a press release to your local newspaper or school newspaper. Helpful link: How to write a press release.

• Personally thank individuals and businesses who helped. A hand written letter is always nice. Helpful Link: How to write a thank you letter.
• Thank the community as a whole with posters.
• Create a follow up press release and include the names of individuals and businesses who participated.

• Thank the community as a whole on social media.
• Give certificates of appreciation.

• Do you think your advocacy project helped to promote recycling?
• Will you continue?

• What else to further promote recycling in your community?

Congratulations! You have earned the Recycling Advocate patch. It can be purchased at our partner site MakingFriends®.com.

You can become an Environment Welfare Advocate by earning all 5 environment advocate level patches.

• Clean Water Advocate Patch
• Clean Earth Advocate Patch
• Clean Air Advocate Patch
• Conservation Advocate Patch
• Recycling Advocate Patch

Did completing this Patch Program® give you some ideas for becoming a Recycling Delegate?

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Recycling Advocate
Clean Water Advocate
Clean Air Advocate
Clean Earth Advocate

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