RECYCLING CENTER FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NORTH COUNTRY

Here in the North Country, the last thing you want is for your fundraising efforts to go south. The region’s nearly half-million residents save up a lot of bottles and cans, and that creates opportunities for your group. Our Watertown, NY and the North Country region recycling center locations are ready to help.

Bottles and cans are what we’re all about. That’s why we’re determined to make it easy for your group to raise the funds you need with no hassles. That goes for any size organization, whether you’re preparing for a Northeast region-wide, ongoing effort, or a Saturday morning cruise around one neighborhood. Our staff has experience with exactly what you’re doing, and we’ll talk it all over with you to plan out the best approach. Recycling is a very green thing to do, and it could result in a lot of green for you!

Want some inside information on how to run a successful bottle and can drive? Our recycling center team has plenty of experience and we’re ready to share. Look to us for:
• Promotion ideas – we know what you can do to spread the word
• Social media – we’ll tell you what makes for the best posts to hype your event
• Trucks, vans and trailers – we’ve got ‘em, and if you’re collecting enough to meet the minimum, you can use ‘em for free
• Your organization’s own personal account – this can be valuable long after your event
• Success! – it can be yours, with our help

Go ahead. Try to bring in more bottles and cans than than our local recycling center can handle. We’re ready for anything and our free vehicle and pickup services will keep you ready for it too. If there are enough bottles and cans in your future, you could qualify to use our super-convenient Retrieval Trailers, Vans or Box Trucks, for a $50 vehicle rental fee that will be deducted from the funds raised. If you do use one, we’ll pick it up, get it processed, and send you on your way – with nothing but the cash.

You must meet minimum collection quantities in order to use this free service, so be sure to ask us about all the details. If you do qualify, this can be a difference-making perk that will make life easier for your volunteers and help you keep more of your earnings for the good cause you intended. Find out more about it. Call any time to discuss.

What if you could run a virtual bottle and can drive? One where you DON’T go out anywhere, you DON’T collect any bottles or cans, and you DON’T do anything at all. BUT YOU STILL COLLECT MONEY! Sounds impossible but no, you can do it simply by setting up an account at our store. Then, for as long as you like, people can continue to bring in their own returnables and donate them to you simply by letting us know they want to support you.

Is there a catch? Only this – you do have to let people know about it. So tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell your school, church, office, strangers. Anyone and everyone can donate to help your cause, but only if you let them know where to bring their bottles and cans: to the Bottle & Can Retrieval Center, of course!

Do you have access to people in your Watertown, NY and North Country community? (Of course you do!) Then you have access to an endless revenue stream. People everywhere are piling up their bottles and cans, and many of them are just waiting for someone to offer to take them away. That someone might as well be you!

Many of those same people like the idea of doing the green thing and helping the planet, and they also like the idea of supporting a cause such as yours. This has been proven by all the smart groups who’ve already succeeded at this: travel softball teams, dance troupes, religious organizations, school bands, you name it. Add your organization to this list. Set up your bottle and can drive today at our recycling center location near you.

Just to be clear – the help we’re talking about providing you here has no price tag, and no strings attached. We know the business of bottle and can redemption and we want to help organizations like yours. After all, we’re part of this community too and we value the contributions you make to it. So if we can share some tips, help you collect more cans, and just make it easier to succeed, we’re all for it. And we do it all for free.

We’ll just remind you that our vehicles and pickup arrangements do come with the requirement that you reach minimum collection levels, but otherwise we’re at your service.

Flexibility is our middle name. OK not really, but we like to be flexible when it comes to your needs. If your fundraising program has some special needs, or if you just want to talk about other ways we might be able to help, then let’s definitely get together. Send us a Facebook direct message, call us or stop by. Who knows what we might come up with?