Honestly – your magazine recycling can promote and enhance someone else’s literacy. How? Well, whether you’ve purchased your magazines through National Magazine Exchange or through another company, you’ll finish reading and enjoying them at some point. When you do, you can certainly throw them away or recycle them in the recycling bin.
Instead, however, you can promote literacy. Give your old magazines to schools and libraries or to early learning and after-school centers. While the writing level may be too high for these beginning readers, it’s possible that the teachers will pick out certain sentences that the students can succeed in reading. It’s also possible that they will use the pictures and images in your old National Magazine Exchange materials to have the children write stories, create collages and more.
It’s amazing how much one little magazine can give – and give back – with the right creativity.