Recycling

Grassroots Environmental Movement Begins $5,000 Contest

New grass roots movements are launched everyday around America and other nations across the world, encouraging citizens to stand up for something they believe in. These movements can be anything from something small-scale and simple, such as promoting public safety in the local neighborhood, or to something much wider in scope, such as an entire national political movement.

A movement known as Paper Retriever, which is a community paper-recycling program, asks individuals to share their input on how recycling impacts your local and global environment. The movement is offering a prize of $5,000 for the grand prize winner, who will create a winning original piece of artwork, photograph, video, or written word to show how recycling impacts the environment. Winners will also receive a $500 dollar donation to a local Paper Retriever center, helping to promote community recycling programs.

Their aim is to help educate individuals on how recycling can truly make a difference in their ecosystem. Paper Retriever is a grassroots movement formed of a conglomerate of non-profit organizations, who have raised a collective $3.8 million dollars since the program’s inception from over 15,000 contributing organizations.

Contest winners will be announced on the official “America Recycles Day” celebration on November 15, 2010. Everyone is invited to participate, so long as they are able to create an original submission. Judges will pick the best submission and runner-up submissions for honorable mentions and a permanent featured location for the top projects on the official website of Paper Retriever. 

Paper Retriever once again reminds us that creativity is the fuel of human progress.