Hello dear Local Guides of the World!
May 17th is International Recycling Day. A very important day designed mainly to raise awareness about the importance of recycling for our planet.
This year’s topic is Creative Innovation and it has to do mainly with promoting all those activities and initiatives that use recycling in a creative way.
I was thinking about this and how we, as Local Guides, can participate in this very important day, so it occurred to me that a good idea could be to help promote local businesses that recycle different types of products. How? Well… doing what we, Local Guides, do best: Make lists and share them with others! And that’s how I came up with this campaign.
One of the points @DeniGu mentioned in his post about5 easy ways you can help the environment on Google Maps is related to building shareable lists, so this campaign fits perfectly with that advice.
The objective of this campaign is that each Local Guide that wants to join, starts a public Google Maps List, and adds all the local businesses that sell products made with recycled products or that sell sustainable products. The more creative and innovative they are, the better, but any sustainable venture can fit the campaign.
You can name the list whatever you want, however, if you can’t think of any name, you can use one of the following list, or any variant that occurs to you. Remember that it is better to translate it into your own language so that any local person can understand it.
- Buy sustainable and recycled
- Innovative green ventures
- Best green initiatives in… (name of the city)
- Places that care the environment
I would also like to share with you some tips for building your list:
- I know it’s hard to find places that use recycled materials. If you don’t know any, you can do a search in Google Maps, in the Google search engine or even in your social networks. You will find a lot of very interesting places to add.
- A good list should have between 5 and 15 places, but you don’t have to wait to find 5 places to create it, you can create it with just one place or even empty and add places as you find them.
- Is better if you change the permissions of the list to make it public. In that way, you can share it by sending just the link to whoever you want.
- It is good if you add descriptions to the places to explain some things that you think are important to those who see it, like which type of recyclables they use or if people can bring their recyclables to the place to help them.
You can see all the tips for creating good lists in the post Your guide to creating lists on Google Maps and you will find there, a video that explains how to create your list, too.
If you still can’t imagine what your list for the campaign should look like, I’m sharing a list that I generated, with places in my city that sell sustainable products or that produce things with recycled or obsolete objects: Buy sustainable and recycled. Please feel free to review it and share your thoughts about it.
Once your list is created, share it in the comments so that everyone else can see it and be inspired to create their own or even save it for later reference.
I hope you get interested in the campaign and share your list with us! I can’t wait to see them!
Do you have any ideas or have you written a post to celebrate the International Recycling Day? Please tag me so I can read it.
Happy International Recycling Day for everyone!
Ceci
Great initiative 
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