Service and Charity Organizations Can Use
Recycling Services to Make Extra Money...
Service and charity organizations are always
looking for new and unique ways to raise money. Fundraising is a
necessary evil of any organization as funds are always needed to do
the work of the organization and keep it running. One of the single
best ways your organization can raise some cash is by holding a
recycling drive.
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Recycling services are widely available in most
areas of the U.S. today. However, many households do not take
advantage of the services which they offer. Sometimes people just
do not know the recycling services exist, in other cases they just
simply do not understand how they work. By holding a recycling
drive your organization can accomplish three goals at once. These
goals are: helping the environment, teaching local community members
about recycling services available in your area, and raising money
for your organization. This makes a recycling drive a win-win-win
situation!
To hold a recycling drive your organization
will need a few supplies. The first of these supplies will be
some flyers to announce your event. You will want to let as
many people in your community know about your recycling event as
possible.
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One way to insure that the largest amount of people hear about
your event is to print up flyers and ask each member of your
organization to post them where ever they go within the community.
The best advertising you can have for your
event is a notice in your local newspaper. It is always worth a
quick call to your local newspapers to see if they are willing to
post an ad about your event for free or very low cost. Some areas
this is possible, and in other areas it isn’t. However, you have
nothing to loose by simply calling up your local newspaper
publishers and asking.
After your advertising plan is in place, you
will want to contact your local recycling center. You need to find
out what materials they will pay your organization for and how they
would like to receive the materials. (Tip: Put this information on
your flyers!) You may be able to talk the recycling center into
donating all payments for a certain period of time to your
organization. This is nice because then you can ask people to go
directly to the recycling center at a certain time on a certain
date. This frees up the members of your organization and does not
require them to do a lot of hands-on work.
If you will need to collect the recycling
materials on your own, then you will want to have some recycling
containers readily available for your participants. You will need a
container specifically for aluminum cans. (Tip: Ask your community
to crush their cans for you so they will take up less space.) You
will need recycling containers for plastics, glass, and paper as
well. Which containers you will need depends on what materials your
local recycling center will accept, and their size depends on the
size of your event.
By
holding a recycling drive your service or charity organization can
raise some much needed money and keep recyclable materials out of
your local landfill as well.
