Are you looking for a fun
and creative way to increase school recycling participation or maybe begin a
school recycling program in your community? Recycle-Bowl, a nationwide
comprehensive school recycling competition, could be your ticket to success.
Keep America Beautiful’s, second annual, “Recycle-Bowl,” is a comprehensive
nationwide recycling competition for elementary, middle and high-school
students. Recycle-Bowl was created to provide students with a fun, interactive
way to learn about waste reduction and environmental responsibility through
in-school recycling.
Open to all
schools, the incentive-based recycling competition kicks off again this October
and registration is now open on the Recycle-Bowl website at http://recycle-bowl.org. The competition
runs from October 15 through November 9, culminating around America Recycles
Day. Participating schools will track and report how much recyclable material
they collect for a chance to win prizes.
At the
close of the four-week competition, the school in each state that collects the
most recyclable material per capita will win $1,000. A national champion will
then be chosen from the top statewide winners to receive an additional $1,000
and a $2,500 store credit to purchase more recycling bins. Schools that collect
material from the community will compete in a separate category for first-,
second- and third- place cash prizes. Educational recycling activities will also
be provided on-line and through a registration toolkit.
In its inaugural year, more than 1,200 schools around the country,
representing more than 500,000 students, participated in the competition. 67%
of schools saw an increase in the amount of materials their school recycled
during the competition.
From the
Recycle-Bowl homepage (http://recycle-bowl.org/2012-map/)
you can see who else is competing in your state. Help us reach our goal of
having 1500 schools participate in 2012.
