I had a great time partnering with the Anaheim Ducks again this year for the annual GREEN NIGHT. We had my Ryan’s Recycling and Project3R canopies up at each entrance to the Honda Center and we gave raffle tickets to everyone who recycled a can or a bottle with me before the game. One of the lucky winners won an autographed team jersey! Thank you to my helpers from Project3R and everyone with the Ducks organization for making this happen. I got to go down on the ice prior to the game and meet Mason McTavish and I met Adam Henrique and Lukas Dontal while filming promos the previous week. How cool is that?! #GoDucks

Thank you to the Anaheim Ducks Foundation for supporting Project3R.

Today we decided to take a photo of all the beach toys I’ve found over the past 18 months of cleaning up my local beach. They were left behind on the beach at the end of the day or washed up on shore. I’m estimating this is from approx. 200 hours at 75 beach clean ups. The broken toys get recycled and all the good toys are being donated to kids in Ghana in a few months. Beach toys are more fun than other plastic pollution but they still hurt the environment when left behind to break down. Please pack out what you packed in when going to the beach, mountains or any other nature spot.

Thank you GRIMM PRESS 格林文化 for featuring me in your new book: 366 Century Today. (366 Real Stories of Inspiration)

If you appreciate the great outdoors and everything in it, you’ll appreciate the Herculean efforts of Ryan Hickman, who has gone viral for his mission to protect the planet by recycling cans and bottles. Among many other awards, Ryan was named one of the “40 Kids Who Have Changed the World ” by Good Housekeeping Magazine in 2019 and 2020.

Ryan recently hung out with us at the 2022 Cat® WasteExpo booth, where we spoke to him about ways to recycle and clean up the environment. During his visit to our booth, Ryan also got to remotely operate a Cat excavator—not to mention stand in the wheel of a giant Cat machine being used to help reduce landfill space across the planet.

Something clicked in Ryan Hickman when he was three. After going with his dad to a recycling center to drop off empty cans and bottles, he knew he had found his thing.

“I loved it,” he says, “and I just wanted to keep doing it because it was helping the environment and just so much fun.”

The next day, Ryan told his parents that he wanted to collect recyclables from their neighbors. Not only did he do that, but he also started collecting cans and bottles from his friends, family, and even his parents’ coworkers. He was hooked!

Ryan is passionate about keeping plastic bottles out of the ocean. For a good reason…

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I had a great time filming with Good Morning America last week and I look forward to seeing all the other stories this week about all the environmental heroes.
Watch video segment here.

#recyclelikeryan #project3r #maketheseatrashfree

We had an awesome turnout at our Project3R beach clean up this past weekend in San Clemente and we picked up 140lbs of trash! Thank you to my school and to everyone that came to help and also to our event sponsors for the raffle prizes. After our event, I was happy to jump on a live video with our friends at AO Latinoamérica who were also doing a beach clean up in Ensenada. They picked up 233lbs of trash!

I’m so excited – we just launched our Project3R apparel on the site. Pick up a hat, hoodie or a shirt in a bunch of different design combinations. Two great things about the new gear. First, it’s all made from recycled water bottles in the material AND all the proceeds from the sales go to Project3R to help fund community clean up and education events. We’re going to be adding new gear over time so check back often to see what we’ve got in the online store. We ship internationally.

Thank you Voyage LA for the interview! You can read it here.