Posts Tagged ‘RecycleBank’
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
RecycleBank offers financially rewards for your environmental stewardship and recycling efforts
I found the perfect solution for all those lazy ‘green’ people who feel recycling is too much like work. RecycleBank views environmental stewardship as a financially rewarding opportunity and allow members to record their recycling efforts and redeem them for points at more than 400 local and national companies such as Starbucks, CVS, and MillerCoors. And its as convenient as getting you daily newspaper! There is no sorting needed (single stream process) and no trip to the recycling plant (curbside drop off). Their system tries to offer a new dimension that motivates everyone to recycle, and they also give points for recycling e-waste!
Below is a really cool video I found, by RecycleBank, for everyone that shows how the single stream process actually works, and why it can save cities and families time and money from the normal recycling routine.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh4F3sZNLqA
Co-Founder and CEO Ron Gonen wants their vision to create a new economic model from this, called the Gconomy, Comparing it to the Industrial Revolution and the Energy Economy of the 20th century, the Gconomoy would correct the flaw in the development of modern economies that left our depleted the environment that sustains us.
This system saves municipal disposal fees, recycling companies earn more money from processing, corporations gain positive association and PR, and households receive a financial incentive to increase recycling. RecycleBank serves more than 285,000 households in over 90 municipalities. Go find if your household is eligible today at RecycleBank.com!