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Earth911 Podcast: Reinventing Community Recycling with Recyclops' Ryan Smith
Earth911 Podcast: Reinventing Community Recycling with Recyclops' Ryan Smith
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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Sep 20, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Recyclops founder Ryan Smith has a vision for locally grown recycling services. The company's Uber-like on-demand residential, apartment and business recycling service is available in 16 states and adds three or more new cities every month. With pickups starting at $12 a month, customers can place plastic, paper, cardboard, glass and other recyclables in a single-use plastic bag provided by Recyclops on their curb for twice-monthly removal and recycling. Drivers make about $25 an hour before their costs, servicing a regular route of about 100 customer homes or businesses. Find out where Recyclops needs drivers.Ryan, who has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 innovator, shares how he developed Recyclops from an initial idea in 2013. The company responded to the pandemic, which shuttered recycling services across the country, with a plan to relaunch recycling in 100 cities. He describes why the company selected single-use plastic pickup bags over reusables and how Recyclops can support recovery of branded packaging to enable improved recovery rates of hard-to-recycle items. The opportunities for innovation in a flexible, on-demand approach to recycling are virtually unlimited. Because anyone could start their own Recyclops route by recruiting their neighbors, the company's app is a potential launching pad for a new, resilient and constantly evolving recycling infrastructure built from the grass-roots up. Check out how to get started at Recyclops.com.
Released:
Sep 20, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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