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Breaking News!

We are beyond excited to finally share Heavy Metal Elementary, our new cartoon series where Ellie, Gallium the unicorn, and their crew bring the recycling magic from The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans and A Recycling Adventure to the Scrapyard to life!

📅 Mark your calendars: National Recycling Day, November 15th at 10 AM PST for our pilot episode premiere! Come hang out with us for a live watch party as we kick off the series.

Let’s dive into why metal recycling is a win-win for the planet and your piggy bank—scrapyards will even pay you to recycle! 💰🌍

Made with love by FUNGI Media and the Recycling is Like Magic team, our channel is all about inspiring children to take action, one can at a time. We know you’re going to love it as much as we do!

So subscribe now to join the fun and help us spread the word. If you’re as excited as we are, don’t forget to like, share, and tell your friends and family. Together, let’s make recycling fun and magical! 🍿📺♻️🦄🌟

Thanks a MILLION to Adam Trask and the amazing team at FUNGI Media 🍄 for bringing our books to life. Can’t wait to celebrate National Recycling Day with you—see you there!

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What is the Million Cans Recycling Contest

Kids are solving the recycling crisis!
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2 Million Cans Recycling Contest!

18 schools across the USA are competing from October 2024 to April 2025.
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How Kids Can Help

Recycling is like Magic! Find out how YOU can get involved in our MILLION CANS RECYCLING CONTEST!

Unleash Your Creativity!

Color and Learn!

Bring out the artist in you with our exciting collection of coloring pages and educational worksheets. Whether you love coloring vibrant scenes or solving fun puzzles, we have something for every young recycler.

Meet the team

A Scuba Diver, Metal Recycler, and Teacher Unite to Save Our Planet—One Can at a Time!

Scuba Diver

Scuba Jess aka Jessica Alexanderson

Metal Recycler

Brad W. Rudover

Teacher

Shaziya M. Jaffer

The Team

Our Goal


We did it! Our incredible readers and recyclers have recycled over 1.3 million cans in our very first Million Cans Recycling Contest! I’m beyond proud of them! 🎉♻️ I’m so excited to see what the future holds. The USA only recycles 45% of aluminum cans, but I know we can solve this problem if we make recycling fun and easy for everyone. Kids can change the world if we let them! 🌍✨
- Jessica Alexanderson
President of Recycling is like Magic!
New Release

We Need to Be More Like Unicorns!

By: Ellie S. Rudover
Illustrated by: Adam Trask

Ellie, aged 8, shares a charming story in her book, We Need to Be More Like Unicorns. The story highlights the magical superpowers, kindness, humor, and inclusivity of unicorns. She beautifully reminds us of the beauty in everyone and encourages spreading love and happiness, just like these mythical creatures. Her story is a heartwarming call to embrace positivity and compassion in our everyday interactions.

About The Author

Ellie, an 8-year-old from Vancouver, BC, adores unicorns and has a passion for recycling. Her dad taught her the importance of caring for our planet and showed her how recycling can make a difference—and even earn some money. He also inspired Ellie to believe in herself, telling her that once she could read, she could achieve anything, even write her own book. Ellie believes in spreading love and kindness, much like unicorns do.

She thinks loving everyone is crucial and hopes her story brings joy and inspires creativity to make the world a better place. When she's not busy, Ellie & her sister Lexi love playing with toy unicorns. They found the ones from Schleich are the most realistic, highest quality, and come with a variety of accessories.

32 pages, softcover

Published July 20, 2024

Our book was on a NASCAR twice!

The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans

Thanks a million to sci-aps & viking motorsports!

Race day 🦄

Time to draft the unicorn Ford Mustang to the front this weekend 🦄🏁 qualifying tonight at 5:30pm. Tomorrow, catch me in the fan zone for a storytime session at 10:30am, followed by the race at 4:00pm.

#Talladega #AgPro300 #NASCAR #38 #Xfinityseries #VikingMotorsports #fordperformance #mattdracing
— with Recycling is like Magic and SciAps.

Matt DiBenedetto
NASCAR Driver
No. 38 Viking Motorsports


Really excited to be heading to Daytona with @rssracing__ and Viking Motorsports.
Riding with me this weekend is @sciaps_inc and @scrapukids @scrapuniversity !! Had to read The Girl who recycling 1 million cans to Millie before heading to @daytona !!

Cj Mclaughlin
NASCAR Driver

Recycling is like Magic teaches kids that ALL metal can be recycled and has value at local scrapyards. Let’s save the planet one can at a time! 🌎♻️🌟

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