PRESS RELEASES

March 26, 2019

More Than 1 Million Students Have Learned to Recycle, and the Program has Helped School Districts Save Over $5 million in Trash-Hauling Fees

February 28, 2019

Nonprofit Recycle Across America (RAA) is excited to announce that nine-year-old recycling phenomenon Ryan Hickman, has become a volunteer spokesperson and is endorsing the RAA society-wide standardized recycling labels. The standardized labels are designed to eliminate recycling confusion and contamination -- a serious and costly issue for the industry and the environment.

April 25, 2017

In honor of the first state to adopt RAA’s standardized recycling bin labeling solution, a celebrity photo shoot for the ‘Let’s Recycle RIght!’ PSA campaign will be live-streamed from Providence onto hundreds of Lamar digital billboards across the country.

April 21, 2017

Miami-Dade School County Public Schools (M-DCPS), Recycle Across America (RAA), and Whole Foods Market joined forces to help students recycle more and correctly to help the District potentially save hundreds of thousands of dollars in trash hauling fees. 

December 15, 2016

Subaru of America (Subaru) and Recycle Across America (RAA) today announce a donation of RAA's standardized recycling label system to support the automaker's zero landfill initiative currently being piloted at three national parks.

November 15, 2016

Recycle Across America’s leaders for progress join together to celebrate implementing the standardized label solution on recycling bins to help visitors “recycle right”

April 27, 2016

Just in time for Earth Day 2016, Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation (RIRRC) announced that Rhode Island will be the first state in the nation to adopt standardized recycling bin labels from Recycle Across America (RAA).

April 13, 2016

Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR) is proud to announce a partnership with Recycle Across America (RAA), a nonprofit organization that provides standardized recycling bin labels to businesses, municipalities and schools nationwide, to make it easier for society to begin to recycle right. 

May 05, 2015

Nonprofit organization Recycle Across America (RAA) is partnering with Bank of America as part of RAA’s Leaders for Progress campaign to advance proper recycling nationwide, while assisting one of the nation’s leading financial institutions with its waste reduction goals.

May 01, 2015

Nonprofit organization Recycle Across America (RAA) today announced a new partnership with Whole Foods Market, commencing in the North Atlantic region (WFM-NA), as part of RAA’s Leaders for Progress and celebrity-led “Let’s recycle right!” campaign to help reduce global waste, reduce waste in oceans and to help close the loop with the reuse of recycled materials in manufacturing.

April 01, 2015

Recycle Across America® (RAA) announced today that it has been named a nonprofit partner of 1% for the Planet (“1%”), an alliance of over 1,200 member companies in 44 countries that give one percent of revenues to environmental causes.

January 13, 2015

Recycle Across America (RAA) is partnering with Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony) to help implement its sustainability initiative at the Sony Open in Hawaii.

October 07, 2014

Recycle Across America (RAA) announced today that in an effort funded by a corporate donor (Kiehl’s Since 1851), it has donated more than 20,000 standardized labels for recycling bins to Houston Independent School District (HISD).

April 26, 2012

In honor of Earth Day, environmentally‐conscious Kiehl’s Since 1851, the New York‐based purveyor of fine quality skin and hair care, has donated $100,000 to Recycle Across AmericaTM to help improve school‐based recycling by providing free standardized recycling labels to K‐12 public schools across the United States.

February 16, 2012

“Understanding that ‘knowledge and determination to solve problems’ is where progress will come from” has earned the founder of Recycle Across America, Mitch Hedlund election to Ashoka’s global fellowship of leading social entrepreneurs in more than sixty countries.