Recycle Brevard designs projects to target waste reduction and foster sustainable living. The main goal is to raise awareness through hands-on, meaningful activities to support positive changes in certain community, no matter how big or small.
Joining Forces
Recycle Brevard also partners with other organizations to increase the reach of already existing projects, either by sharing what we developed to be expanded to other areas or by implementing and supporting locally what was developed by others.
Waste Me Not Projects
Waste Me Not projects are community projects that connect what we do with why we do it.
Our Waste Me Not Recycled Art Show represents the reflection side of the projects. After we work on a project, we should take some time to think about the impact we are making, and how that will affect the problem we are trying to solve or the deficiency we are looking to correct.
We want to get to the point that the art show is end piece of community projects done by participants. We will be working with our partners and expanding our partnerships to further develop this connection in our future art shows. Contact us if you would like to receive further information on this.
Joining Forces
Recycle Brevard also partners with other organizations to increase the reach of already existing projects, either by sharing what we developed to be expanded to other areas or by implementing and supporting locally what was developed by others.
Waste Me Not projects are community projects that connect what we do with why we do it.
Our Waste Me Not Recycled Art Show represents the reflection side of the projects. After we work on a project, we should take some time to think about the impact we are making, and how that will affect the problem we are trying to solve or the deficiency we are looking to correct.
We want to get to the point that the art show is end piece of community projects done by participants. We will be working with our partners and expanding our partnerships to further develop this connection in our future art shows. Contact us if you would like to receive further information on this.
Reduce Waste, Raise Awareness
Projects to help divert as much material as possible from the landfills.
We invite you to support our efforts to increase the practice of the 3Rs - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle through any of these projects.
Recycleware Cards
Our Recycleware Cards will help consumers to learn about recycling programs for the products they are purchasing or receiving, right at the time they purchase or are given such products.
With support from Roots & Shoots, Recycle Brevard created the first set of cards. This first set, designed to be distributed by dentist offices, inform patients about the opportunity to recycle plastic toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes and dental-floss containers with Recycle Brevard through one of the Terracycle hard-to-recycle programs.
Participating dentist offices will receive postcards and a poster for the office. They may also become a drop-off location for their patients (or the community) - we will provide a 13-gallon pop-up bin for the offices interested in becoming a drop-off location.
We invite local dentist offices and the community to participate!
For more information, contact us and we will get your location set up. For a list of other hard-to-recycle waste collected by Recycle Brevard, visit our Terracycle page.
OMG One Less Straw Pledges
Did you know that...
😳 Each year 100,000 marine animals and
over 1 million sea birds die from ingesting plastic.
😳 Every day we use 500,000,000 plastic
straws. That’s enough straws to fill 46,400 large school buses PER YEAR!
😳 U.S. Consumption is equal to enough plastic straws to wrap around the earth’s circumference 2.5 times a day!
😳 U.S. Consumption is equal to enough plastic straws to wrap around the earth’s circumference 2.5 times a day!
Recycle Brevard has partnered with OneMoreGeneration to bring to Brevard County, Florida the OneLessStraw pledge and campaign as one of our efforts to reduce plastic pollution and cut down single-use plastics.
OneMoreGeneration has over 100 global partners joining us in this campaign.
Here is how you can participate in this project:
- Review our information sheet to learn more about the campaign, our partners, OneMoreGeneration, and the issues regarding plastics in the environment
- Download and sign the pledge
- Individuals: download and sign the Recycle Brevard OMG Individual Pledge
- Schools: download and sign the Recycle Brevard OMG School Pledge
- Businesses: download and sign the Recycle Brevard OMG Business Pledge
- Once signed, send your pledge form to Recycle Brevard via email or snail mail.
- Businesses: when you sign the pledge, you may request to receive buttons for your staff to wear during the campaign
- Businesses and Schools: you will receive a PDF file of a poster to display at your premises to make others aware and willing to support the campaign
- We will follow up with you to see how the experience went at the end of 30 days
This is a simple way to become aware and get started in the journey of reducing plastics in our environment. It takes practice and some habit changing to become part of the solution to reduce plastic pollution. Thank you for participating!
6-Pack Ring Recycling Program
However, we need a solution for the plastics already in use and by making the 6-Pack Ring Recycling Program available to Brevard County residents, Recycle Brevard hopes to reduce the amount of plastic in the environment.
This is a FREE recycling program and a community service provided by Recycle Brevard. NO compensation is received from this program. Anyone - individuals, groups, schools, organizations, or businesses - is welcome to participate.
To participate, you may choose to DROP OFF your plastic 6-pack rings AT OUR FACILITY or register online to have access to free shipping labels to ship them yourself.Once you're registered, collect plastic beverage holder rings of any number of rings - 4, 6, 8 or 12 - from beer or soda or any beverage and use a regular cardboard box to save them in. Once the box is full, print the label, ship it out, and start collecting again!
Love To Recycle - Batteries
Love To Recycle - Batteries was started in February 2019 with the goal of offering free alkaline (non-rechargeable) battery recycling to the community and recycle at least 500 pounds of alkaline batteries per year.We are seeking sponsors to help us purchase battery recycling boxes. Each box holds about 50 pounds of battery and costs $110. We would appreciate a donation of a total of $150 per box to help with the cost of not only purchasing a box but also creating a personalized label for each box. Contact us if you are interested in sponsoring collection boxes.
We are very thankful to everyone who has been able to donate to make this project a reality. We hope we can gather more donations and also find a BUSINESS PARTNER interested in sponsoring some boxes.
In appreciation for their sponsorship, we would be happy to display their name/logo on the boxes they sponsor and have some of their marketing material at our location. We can also consider preparing boxes and having sponsors host or place boxes at some other location of their choosing. We ask hosts to make a $15 donation and bring the box to us once full so we can handle shipment. We will coordinate details in this case.
Once we acquire boxes, we will make them available to the community at our facility so everyone can recycle their batteries for FREE. We accept single-use batteries only - limited to 10-20 batteries per household per box and no leaking batteries, please. Leaking alkaline batteries should be placed in the regular trash.
The more funds we raise, the more batteries we will be able to recycle.
If you would like to contribute towards this project, you may donate any amount to help us with the purchase of boxes. Whether you donate $5 or $500, every little bit helps.
As always, thank you for your support!
Love Your Campus
MIHS Students, teachers and staff have been working together to improve in all three areas.The campaign was launched on February 1, 2019 and ran until March 1, 2019.
Recycle Brevard would like to support other teachers and schools who are looking to make reducing and recycling better in Brevard.
Read MIHS story and follow-up report. If your school is interested in our Love Your Campus campaign, please contact us.
#GivingRecyclingAChance
Our #GivingTuesday project was launched in November 2018. Aiming to raise funds to purchase boxes to recycle VHS tapes - 1,500 of them - and donate Recycling Club memberships to school teachers.
Thanks to our supporters, we were able to purchase the initial 10 boxes, recycled about 1,200 VHS tapes and donated 16 memberships.
Thank you to all who donated toward this project so far!
To continue with this project, we need to raise funds to purchase boxes. That will enable individuals, members of our community, to recycle their VHS tapes for free.
If you would like to help us to carry on offering this recycling opportunity to our community, please donate here.
If you haven't done it yet, please nominate teachers that you think would like to have access to reusable materials to receive a FREE annual membership in our Recycling Club.
To submit your nomination, fill out our online form. It will just take a few seconds. Thank you!
Brevard Against Litter on Litterati
Litterati is an app to collect litter data to help identify problem areas and the most commonly found brands and products. This data will be used to work with companies and organizations to find more sustainable solutions.
Download Litterati and join the Brevard Against Litter challenges.
Litterati challenges are dedicated to cleaning the planet. Brevard Against Litter are local challenges created as a joint effort between I Pick Up Litter and Recycle Brevard.
Help collect data for this worldwide movement of picking up litter! The goal is to reduce what gets in our waterways, while identifying problem areas, the types of products that need the most attention as well as the manufacturers/source of the litter.
Our Past Projects helped us toward our main goal of getting the word out. If you have ideas for other projects, please contact us at Info@RecycleBrevard.org. We would like to hear them!
