Pledge to Recycle

Win a Compost Bin or a Rain Barrel

The Ada Recycling Coalition is sponsoring an area pledge drive and is giving away two home compost bins and one rain barrel.  You can copy & paste the pledge below and email it to trudy@adaok.com or give it to any ARC member. The drawing will be held November 14, 2012.

Take the Pledge!!!!

America Recycles Day, November 15, 2012 is a national initiative of Keep America Beautiful. I pledge to find out what materials I can recycle in my community.  I pledge to lead by example in my community by recycling.  I pledge to recycle batteries, cell phones, ink cartridges and other electronic waste.  I pledge to contact my elected officials to support my community’s recycling programs. Name:  _____________________________________________________ Email:  _____________________________________________________ Telephone:  _________________________________________________ Address:  ___________________________________________________ City/State/Zip Code:  __________________________________________

Recycle Bowl

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 new nationwide comprehensive school recycling competition, could be your ticket to success.

Keep America Beautiful is announcing the launch of “Recycle-Bowl,” the first 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 and classrooms, the incentive-based recycling competition and benchmarking program kicks off this October and registration is now open on the Recycle-Bowl website at http://recycle-bowl.org. The competition runs from October 17 through November 12, 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 among the statewide winners to receive an additional grand prize of $2,500.

Educational recycling activities will also be provided on-line and through a registration toolkit. The inaugural Recycle-Bowl is being sponsored by Nestlé Waters North America.

America Recycles Day Poster Contest

The Ada Recycling Coalition is celebrating ”America Recycles Day” this year by sponsoring a poster contest for area elementary school students (pre-K thru 6th grade)! The selected artist in each grade will receive $25.

The topic is “Recycling at School” Posters must be received by November 4, 2011 at 5 pm.
Print artist’s name, grade, school and phone number on the back of poster.

Mail to: Trudy Nevland, 231 South Townsend, Ada, OK 74820
or drop them off at: 220 West 7th Street, Ada

If you have any questions, please contact Trudy at (580) 436-8100 or via e-mail: trudy@adaok.com.

America Recycles Day Contest

The Ada Recycling Coalition is collecting pledge cards in the Ada area for America Recycles Day. We ask that you pledge to do recycle and for your pledge you will be entered in a contest to win a mulching lawn mower.

If you are in the Ada area and would like to pledge please contact us. If you are outside of the Ada area you can still pledge to recycle on the America Recycles Day website (the contest is only for those in the Ada area).


The mulching lawn mower was donated by Home Depot.

Mayor Cupps Proclaims November 15 "America Recycles Day in Ada"

The Ada Recycling Coalition encourages Ada residents to buy more recycled-content products (like recycled office paper), to increase their recycling efforts at home, school and work and to mulch (not bag) their lawn clippings and leaves for America Recycles Day.

In addition, ARC is sponsoring a poster contest for area elementary school students and a drawing for a mulching mower. For more information, or to enter the drawing, contact any ARC member or call Trudy at 436-8100.