Who will watch your recycling bins?
July 8th, 2008 categories: Responsible Living
Allied Waste Industries, Inc. will!
Previously we could implant chips in our dogs, now we can chip the recycling bins. But not for the purpose of tracking them, if they get lost (what happened yesterday to the greatest astonishment of my clients in Palm Valley) but to monitor weight of the recycled items.
Allied Waste and RecycleBank are launching a program that will encourage people to recycle.
“Participating customers in communities served by Allied Waste will have radio frequency identification codes imbedded in their recycling bins. RecycleBank Points are then awarded to the community for each pound of recyclable material, with the total amount evenly divided among participating customers.
Households can redeem RecycleBank points for gift cards and discounts to more than 400 brand name national and local retailers. Recipients also can convert rewards into donations for select charitable organizations. ” Source: Phoenix Business Journal, July 8th, 2008
The program will start in 2008 in just 3 metropolies and will expand in 2009.
Isn’t it nice to be rewarded for something that.. we should do anyway?
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We should not be recycling for the purpose of receiveing points or gifts. It seems as though we must receive points to do anything including using credit cards or being good, i.e. brownie points.