Do you recognize your shirt(s)? When people send in medals and use clothing as packaging (instead of bubble wrap or packaging paper), we wash and dry the clothing and donate it to a local shelter.

When people use old clothes (t-shirts, tech shirts, towels) as packing materials- we wash them, dry them, and donate them to local nonprofits that give them directly to people in need.

Update: volunteer Caryn processed more medals for recycling! We added to her donation page today! secure.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=3...

These are the hooks, rings, chains and other metal items attached to your medals or ribbons. These are removed and separated as items go off to their respective recycling locations. And these are recycled as well!

An update on one of our volunteers / team members- meet the people who are recycling your medals! Caryn joined to help us catch up on our backlog. She is fundraising for the American Cancer Society for the 2025 Bank of America Chicago Marathon and the 2025 Disneyland Halloween Half Marathon Weekend.

Sharing our latest donation made from recycling unused, extra and no-longer-wanted sport and academic medals. We made a donation to the Teaching & Learning Collaborative.

We donated to Children with Diabetes to support an athlete on TeamCWD! Children with Diabetes is an Ohio-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing education and support to families living with type 1 diabetes.

Unwanted, reusable clean shirts make great packaging padding materials. We sort through them, check to make sure they can be used/worn, wash and dry them, and donate them to a local healthcare facility that services clients in need.

Plastic bags and bubble wrap on the way to plastics recycling.

We try to avoid plastic bags as much as possible but had to for this last round as our volunteer team was more spread out across the state.

Tomorrow we are dropping off your medal ribbons for textile recycling! Do you recognize your bags? Since they are also cloth/textile, they are recycled as well. Cinch bags are a HUGE help and they make great padding/packing materials.

Volunteer update: Caryn is also volunteering with us to support her fundraiser for the 2025 Bank of America Chicago Marathon for the American Cancer Society. We just donated to her fundraising page.

View and donate here: secure.acsevents.org/site/TR/Dete...

Volunteer update: We just posted another donation to Maira's fundraising page for the 2025 Boston Marathon for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Maira finished another batch recycling with us and has more coming. (The donated total will update on our name as we process each batch of medals).

Today we made a textile (ribbon) drop off. Normally we try to only use the cloth bags people send their medals in, but with our current backlog and spread-out volunteers we had to use some plastic bags to transport everything. Each plastic bag weighs about 15 pounds.

Thank you to @rhoderaces.bsky.social and the Cape Cod Marathon for their partnership! We picked up their unused/extra medals from 2024 events and are recycling them now.

A creative, resourceful and recyclable packaging material- used shirts! If we receive clothing items that are not usable/cannot be donated, we recycle those with the textiles. If we receive clothes that are in good condition and can be donated/re-worn- we wash, dry & donate them.

Bubble wrap and plastic bags headed to plastics recycling. If you use plastic bags, plastic Amazon envelopes (label removed), or bubble wrap for padding- these all go to recycling. If there are plastic bags still on your medals, just leave them on- those are also recycled.

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Thanksgiving! Thank you to everyone that partners with us to recycle unused, leftover and no-longer-wanted sport and academic medals! Together we prevent landfill waste and help support great 501c3 nonprofits!

Today is National Recycling Day, also known as America Recycles Day. Thank you to everyone who recycles their unused or no-longer-wanted sport and academic medals with us! #NationalRecyclingDay #AmericaRecyclesDay