Today, we celebrate Earth Day — but if you ask our community on Connect, every day is a good day to take action toward preserving nature and choosing sustainability. This can mean organizing clean-ups at your local beach or city park, planting trees, or simply discarding your empty plastic bottle in the right place.
As a Local Guide, you also have the power to promote sustainability on Google Maps. Get started with these tips, and find inspiration to take action from fellow Local Guides:
Add recycling drop-off locations
Recycling drop-off locations are places — or simply containers — where you can safely dispose of clothes, plastic, cardboard, glass, and other materials and items. You can find these in the streets, parks, shopping centers, train stations, and dedicated areas. Mapping recycling drop-off locations makes them more visible to people who are looking for sustainable ways to discard their waste.
Edit recycling information
Some supermarkets and bigger stores also provide containers for dropping off old batteries, electronics, plastic and glass bottles, and more. These can be easily marked by updating the place’s features directly in the Maps app.
Add sustainability details to your reviews
Such details could be especially helpful when eating out or getting a takeaway. Letting others know whether a coffee shop or a restaurant offers plastic-free alternatives to cutlery and takeaway boxes can help them choose with consideration and may encourage the business owner to consider more eco-friendly options.
Create dedicated eco-friendly lists
Lists can be anything you want them to be: from a collection of your favorite second-hand furniture and clothing shops to convenient EV charging stations and eco-friendly toilets, they are a great way to share sustainable solutions.
Share photos and videos
Are there green points in your neighborhood for collecting recyclables? Maybe there’s a solar-powered mobile phone charging station in your local park or shopping center? Capturing these details on video or photo (with helpful captions!) can make a big difference.
Local Guides, do you already make some of these contributions? How do you support sustainability? Let us know in the comments.
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Here is my 
Spent some quality time at our local beach, giving it a good clean-up and making sure it’s a little more beautiful for everyone. Then, got my hands a bit muddy planting some new trees in our community. Every little bit counts, right? 
Let’s keep making our neighborhoods greener and cleaner, one step at a time!
