While municipal waste recycling is better than not recycling at all, there are several significant areas in which bottle-drop recycling is a clear winner.
Not only can bottle-drop recycling benefit participants directly by providing worthwhile financial incentives for each bottle you recycle, but it’s also more efficient, which means that it can be even better for the environment than municipal recycling. It’s the best way to maximize your deposits as well as your environmental impact as you recycle your unwanted containers.
Read on to learn more about these benefits in greater detail, outlining exactly what sets bottle drop recycling apart from less lucrative and efficient recycling options.
What is Bottle Drop Recycling and How Does It Work?
Bottle drop recycling is a type of recycling program in which participants fill up bags of bottles and cans and bring them to a can and bottle recycling drop-off location. In contrast to municipal recycling, which is run by local governments, bottle drop recycling may be run by private companies, such as CLYNK.
The process is incredibly simple. First, place your bottles and cans in the designated bag—CLYNK uses green recyclable bags to make it easy to distinguish them. Next, tag your bag with your personalized CLYNK bag tags, which you can print out at any CLYNK kiosk. When you arrive at your nearest CLYNK drop-off location, typically at your local grocery store, it’s as easy as scanning each bag (allowing your recyclables to be tracked and recorded by their system) instead of each item, and dropping them all off in 30 seconds or less. That’s all there is to it!
Maximizing Financial Value Through Bottle Drop Recycling
Unlike municipal recycling, bottle drop recycling allows you to redeem the deposits paid on your recyclable bottles and cans. CLYNK tracks exactly how many containers you drop off, and the balance accumulates in your associated personal account until you decide to withdraw it. You can claim that money at any time by scanning your CLYNK card and entering your PIN at your nearest CLYNK kiosk. There’s also the option to put those funds toward charitable purposes if you’d prefer.
For more in-depth info on getting reimbursed with CLYNK, visit our FAQ page on the topic.
Why Bottle Drop Recycling Is More Efficient
Unfortunately, curbside municipal recycling collection is very often contaminated with trash that isn’t recycled, especially in the case of single-stream recycling. As a result, many of the containers that you place in your municipal recycling bins will end up getting incinerated or simply pile up in landfills or the ocean. This is a big waste of your valuable time and energy, not to mention it’s an unnecessary added burden on the environment.
CLYNK utilizes a unique, patented system for bottle redemption and recycling, making the entire process easier and more efficient than ever before. This multi-stream approach results in the recycling of uncontaminated materials that are almost 100 percent recyclable. There’s no other company in the United States that’s operating this way, making CLYNK a true pioneer in the field of recycling. CLYNK also utilizes a database to track individual users’ environmental impact and will monitor exactly how many containers you’ve successfully recycled.
Environmental Benefits of Bottle Drop Recycling
The fact that bottle drop recycling, such as the kind offered by CLYNK, is so much more efficient than municipal recycling, means that it’s also better for the environment. Oregon, for example, has used CLYNK’s technology to reach a redemption rate of 90 percent, which is by far the highest in the United States. In total, CLYNK users have recycled more than 2.6 billion containers.
To help conceptualize that massive number and the impact of using bottle drop recycling systems, CLYNK has diverted 30 major league baseball stadiums’ worth of container volume, and it has also saved 602,582,318 miles’ worth of car emissions.
The more people that continue to drop off their bottles and cans at CLYNK stations—and they’re likely to keep doing so since the process is so quick and easy—the more that these positive environmental impacts will continue to grow, and the fewer containers will end up in landfills, incinerated, or contributing to the problem of microplastics in the ocean.
Sign up to Begin Recycling Containers with CLYNK
Ready to give bottle drop recycling with CLYNK a try? Get started by signing up with CLYNK online in just a few minutes. After registering, CLYNK will send you free CLYNK cards, bag tags, and a voucher for 10 CLYNK bags.
Prefer to sign up in person? Visit a CLYNK kiosk near you to get your membership card, bag tags, and a free box of bags on the spot – click here to search for your nearest bottle recycling drop-off location
To learn more about how CLYNK works, check out our FAQs page.