McDonald’s Germany encourages teenagers and young adults to help make the cities and towns clean. In its new anti-littering campaign, launched in May ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2010, the global fast-food chain is asking young residents of urban areas not to throw litter around. The new campaign called “Gib Müll eine Abfuhr!” (“Remove the Trash”) invites youth to ‘score’ their goals with a ball made of used crumpled packaging.

PepsiCo announced the Dream Machine Summer Recycling Challenge, a national call-to-action asking Americans to commit to recycle every can and bottle at summertime cookouts, starting with Independence Day. The more Americans recycle in Dream Machines, the more support PepsiCo will provide to the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities.

MillerCoors LLC is encouraging to collect bottle caps and can tabs and at the same time to benefit veterans that have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Via their Miller High Life brand and in cooperation with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America the company has created a campaign named “Give a Veteran a Piece of the High Life” focused on collecting the recyclable items in an effort to raise a contribution up to $1 million.