Imagine a world where we all get paid to recycle- is that a green dream or what?! Well here it is friends, the folks at recyclebank.com are manifesting the vision. Here’s how it works: Participating households or businesses get bins with barcodes on them. A recyclebank recycling truck picks up and weighs the recyclables and the weight of the recyclables is then converted into recyclebank dollars. Recyclebank dollars can be used at participating retail partners, a list that is quickly lengthening and includes Whole Foods, Staples, FedEx/Kinkos, Acme Hardware, Patagonia, Kimpton (Hotels) and others. Right now Recyclebank is successfully operating in Philadelphia and it’s suburbs, Gloucester County,NJ, and Wilmington DE with Burlington, VT, upstate NY, and eastern MA coming on board soon. Go to recyclebank.com to find out about the program and how to continue this green dream in your community. The good news is its single stream, incentive based recycling, meaning that you can deposit all of your recyclables into one container AND you get rewarded. This makes it easy for participants to want to recycle. With the average American generating 4.5 pounds of garbage a day, diverting anything you can from the wastestream saves a bit of green for your grandchildren. Shucks, one glass bottle saves enough electricity to light a 100-watt bulb for 4 hours. It seems like the greener you grow the more you know how much it really does pay to recycle.
