RecycleBank.com Rewards for Recycling

For people on the East Coast, there is a new reason to recycle. RecycleBank.com rewards customers with up to $35 a month for recycling. They even pick up your recyclables right from your curb.

RecyleBank is currently available in cities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, Virginia, Nebraska, Vermont, Massachusetts and New York and have continued plans for expansion. RecyleBank.com is an incentive program to get customers to recycle, “ RecycleBank rewards you for home recycling. Your RecycleBank Recycling Container has a barcode that is identified by the recycling truck. The amount recycled is translated into RecycleBank Reward Points that you can use to shop at hundreds of participating stores.”

Stores and business connected to RecycleBank also benefit from being connected to the RecycleBank program as it shows their customers their commitment to their community as well as provides them with positive advertising, not to mention having a positive effective on the environment as well as generating more jobs.

According to the Letter from the Founders found on the RecycleBank website, there are three primary goals for RecycleBank:

Dramatically increase recycling rates

Promote socially responsible businesses

Generate savings for municipalities by avoiding landfill disposal fees.

RecycleBank’s continued expansion is encouraging because one of the biggest problems with recycling is a lack of participation and as they continue to expand, recycling participation will hopefully increase as well.