Champion ideas
To help you make Every Can Counts a success in your workplace we hope you'll use the information, resources and ideas you'll find in this website.
Visit our download section to find artwork files for:
- Posters for recycling points
- Posters for noticeboards
- Leaflets
- Every Can Counts logos
- Recycling Champion certificate
You'll also find:
- Screensavers
- PC wallpapers
- Animated banner ads
Competitions
There’s nothing like the chance of winning something for nothing to get people interested in what you're promoting, so get the boss to fund some prizes (iTunes, Amazon or Tesco vouchers work well!) to tempt them to find out more about Every Can Counts.
Here are some suggestions:
- Wordsearch: test colleagues' brain power by getting them to find the words hidden in our grid.
- Quiz: use the information in this website to put together a recycling quiz. Multiple choice questions work especially well.
- And why not add a Tie-break? To help pick a winner ask entrants to come up with a slogan or catch phrase about Every Can Counts. You could use the winner in your future publicity campaigns.
- Click here to download our word search quiz and answer sheet.
- Why not organise a recycling competition between different departments in your company or organisation, or between different floors of your building?
Work with your Facilities Manager to monitor drinks can recycling and award the one which collects the most cans. Updates could be announced on your intranet, in newsletters or email bulletins to create more buzz and a competitive vibe.
Statistics
Facts and figures can help tremendously when you're trying to explain why Every Can Counts. If you can get information from your recycling company or facilities management department on how many cans you are saving you can use this to encourage colleagues to keep recycling.
Distance: work out how far the cans you’ve recycled would stretch if laid end to end. It could be from here to London, Paris or New York. Or even the moon!
How? A typical (330ml) drinks can is 12cm tall, so 8 cans would stretch 1 metre and 800 would stretch 1 kilometre. The distance from Birmingham to London is 163km (or 800 x 163) so that's 130,400 cans! (use the website www.mapcrow.info to calculate distances)
Energy saving: this is a really good way of making recycling relevant.
The recycling process for drinks cans saves up to 95% of the energy needed to make aluminium or steel from raw materials. Put another way, with the energy needed to make one aluminium can from raw materials, 20 could be made using recycled aluminium.
Here are some more facts - if you know how many cans you are, or could, save at work by recycling you could put some very powerful statistics together to make your colleagues really see the importance of recycling:
Did you know…?
Recycling just one aluminium can saves enough energy to:
- Run a stereo for 1.5 hours
- Run a TV for 3 hours
- Boil a kettle 3 times
- Run a computer for 1 hour.
Any other ideas?
We’d really like to add more ideas and suggestions to this website - and that’s we’re you come in. If you have any ideas for promoting recycling or you'd like to share with us, and other recycling champions, then we’d really like to hear from you. It could be an event you've run, a competition you’ve designed or some great coverage you’ve got in the company or local newsletter, please let us know what works for you - it could help others make Every Can Count! Just drop us a line and we’ll do the rest.
