February is often banquet season and, while accepting that high-point trophy for you and your horse's well deserved hard work over the last show season might feel great at the moment, let's face it, those awards often become dust collectors, or worse, end up in a landfill after a frenzy of spring cleaning.

Now there's a better way to show your green after winning those blues: donate those old Walk-Trot and Fitting & Showmanship cups to one of the many trophy recycling services available nationwide. Like Total Awards & Promotions, Inc., which has spent 20 years organizing a trophy-recycling program that gives back to charities. Through its mail-in program, the company's Madison, Wisconsin headquarters recycle and re-engrave old awards and trophies and donate them to nonprofit organizations. In addition to its trophy recycling program, the company also manufacturers its own 'green' awards made of recycled glass and newsprint. Check out www.AwardsMall.com.