Thank you Orange County Board of Supervisors for the award! Ryan was so proud today to receive a certificate from the County of Orange for his recycling & environmental awareness efforts. CR&R was also on hand to express their thanks to Ryan and they gave him a new toy trash truck!

Ryan Hickman takes recycling seriously. How seriously? The seven-year old has collected over 320,000 cans and bottles in his home state of Califorina. Nat Geo Kids recently asked the pollution preventer a few questions about his passion for helping the environment….read more

Ryan’s favorite show is a program on Nickelodeon called Henry Danger. He’s seen every episode. Every one. So when one of the stars of the show sent Ryan a tweet and a personalized poster, you could say Ryan was a little bit excited. We’ll let the photo speak for itself. Thank you so much Cooper Barnes for making an 8 year old kid’s day. You’re the best.

Inscription reads: Ryan, you keep cleaning up the planet, & I’ll keep beating up bad guys. Deal?? –  Your pal, Cooper Barnes.

Awesome.

This week, we honor eight-year-old Ryan Hickman, from Orange County, California, for helping to make this planet a better place to live!

So, Ryan, at just eight years old, has been running his own recycling program.

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Ryan is mentioned with some pretty influential kids in this one. Very cool.

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Ryan and five other amazing kids featured in OC FAMILY magazine’s WHIZ KIDS story this month!

An autograph from recycling entrepreneur Ryan Hickman just got even cooler. Not only has the young recycler raised thousands of dollars for charity and recycled almost 300,000 cans and bottles, but he’s also recently mastered cursive.

Eight-year-old Ryan of California has been recycling cans and bottles with his dad for almost five years. This year, he’s issued a challenge to anyone who will join him to recycle 300,000 cans and bottles before May 1. The initiative is the product of years of work, but it started on a much smaller scale.

“Initially, it was just he and I going to our local recycling facility with just two small kitchen bags of plastic water bottles that we had used at the house,” says Ryan’s dad, Damion Hickman. The experience, unassuming as it was, was enough to get Ryan hooked, and the business was born.

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