RecycleBank: One “Bank” That Pays You Back

 

Have you ever heard of RecycleBank? 

If not, RecycleBank is a leading green rewards and loyalty program that motivates people to recycle. RecycleBank motivates households and communities to recycle by rewarding them for the amount they’ve recycled at home. RecycleBank measures the amount of materials and then converts it into RecycleBank Points that can be used at over 1,200 national and local RecycleBank Reward Partners, including  Kraft, Coca-Cola, CVS and Target.com, as well as local locations like grocery stores and restaurants.

RecycleBank members also have the ability to donate their RecycleBank Points to local schools for environmental initiatives, as well as dozens of local and national charities. In 2008, RecycleBank members donated 750,000 Points, the equivalent of $75,000.00 dollars, to local school environmental initiatives.  Wow – that’s a lot of green, and in more ways than one!

In 2008, participating RecycleBank households redeemed 46,145,150 Points for RecycleBank Rewards; returning money directly back into the local economies in participating communities through reward redemption.

RecycleBank has more than doubled recycling rates in every community that deploys the program. To date, RecycleBank households have diverted over 60 million pounds of recyclables from the waste stream, saving more than 600,000 trees and over 45 million gallons of oil. These environmental footprint metrics resulted in over $6 million in savings for municipalities in 2008.

How RecycleBank Works:

1. Place your recyclable materials into one cart for curbside pick up.
2. Carts have an identification tag that is recorded by the recycling truck.
3. The amount recycled is converted into RecycleBank Points, which you can use to order rewards.

To discover if RecycleBank is available in your area, or for more information, visit RecycleBank.com.