Get Ready to Celebrate
America Recycles Day!
Small actions can lead to big impact! Each year on November 15, millions of Americans come together for America Recycles Day – a day all about spreading the word on how recycling helps us reduce waste, save energy, and conserve precious resources.
How You Can Join the Fun
America Recycles Day isn’t just a one-day thing – it’s a chance to look at your recycling habits and make some awesome changes that will last. Here’s how you can get involved:
Test Your Recycling Smarts!
Find out if you’re a recycling whiz or if there’s still some eco-friendly wisdom to pick up by taking our interactive quiz. You might be surprised by what’s recyclable (and what’s not)!
Recycle Your Way to a Cleaner America
Jump into action with the Greatest American Cleanup and make recycling part of your mission. It’s not just about cleaning up litter – it’s about making sure those materials get a second life and don’t end up in a landfill.
Stay Connected with Keep America Beautiful!
Motivated to do more than recycling? Sign up for our emails and get the latest tips, inspiring stories, and ways to get involved. Be the first to hear about how we can all work together to do beautiful things.
What is America Recycles Day?
America Recycles Day, brought to you by Keep America Beautiful, is the only nationally recognized day that’s all about recycling! It’s a time to learn, get inspired, and take action. Whether at home, school, or work, we can all pitch in to recycle more and waste less.
From plastic bottles and aluminum cans to paper and electronics – recycling helps keep tons of materials out of landfills, saves natural resources, and reduces pollution. And who wouldn’t want to be part of that?
SAVE THE DATE! November 15th
ONE DAY to Educate.
ONE DAY to Motivate.
ONE DAY to Make Recycling Bigger & Better.
The Impact
Our volunteers and affiliates had an amazing impact during last year’s America Recycles Day!
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Partners for Change
First-of-its-kind: Dollywood becomes first theme park to recycle plastic from every cigarette butt collected in receptacles on property
Last year, Dollywood partnered with the river cleanup nonprofit, Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful (KTNRB), on a massive cigarette litter prevention project, making Dollywood the first theme park in the world to recycle the plastic from every cigarette butt collected in guest-facing receptacles on its property.
Keep Charlotte (FL) Beautiful: Keep America Beautiful’s Affiliate of the Month for September 2022
Keep America Beautiful® is proud to announce our next Affiliate of the Month. In this KAB initiative, we feature the great work being done in our network of 700 certified affiliates. Our Affiliate of the Month for September 2022 is Keep Charlotte Beautiful in Florida.
Keep California Beautiful: Educating the Next Generation
The K-12 Recycling Challenge promotes and encourages recycling across California. The competition between schools and recycling coordinators resulted in over 7.7 million pounds of recyclables collected in the past five years.The California Recycling Challenge is a...
Recycling reality check quiz
Have you taken the Recycling Reality Check Quiz yet? Test your knowledge today!
Thanks to our 2024 America Recycles National Sponsors:
YOUR DONATION IN ACTION
Your generosity allows us to expand our program offerings, fund community improvement projects from coast to coast, and provide the means needed to make meaningful and lasting impact in local communities across the U.S.