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We make it easy to waste less. Get pickups from your 🏠 Keep stuff out of the landfill 🌿 Do good in your community ❤️ Save the 🌎
Seattle, WA
Joined August 2018
Where do all those thousands of campaign signs go after Election Day? @getridwell is leading a campaign in the Bay Area to collect them for recycle and reuse so they don’t end up in the landfill.
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Such a pleasure talking with @AliceShort3 @latimes about practical takeaways from Total Garbage, including how a father-son project grew into a powerhouse social impact biz that turns your trash into treasure @getridwell @Avery_Books
latimes.com
Some of the great successes in cutting waste aren't about 'climate change.' They're about saving money and being more efficient, virtues that are as apolitical as can be.
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🎙️ ON AIR: We're speaking w/ @latimes reporter @susrust, @CALPIRG director @JennEngstrom & @getridwell's @gerrinepan about the future of plastic in California. ❓How have shopping bag bans changed how you bring home your purchases? 📻 Listen:
kqed.org
California, a pioneer in plastic bag bans, is upping its game with a new law that now bans all plastic bags from grocery stores – including those stiff “reusable” ones. Researchers say California’s...
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Just about everything in this Ridwell processing facility in San Leandro will be donated to a Bay Area nonprofit or sent to a recycler to become something new. The subscription service offers a new spin on recycling items that identify aren’t accept in the blue curbside bin.
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Ridwell is catching on in the South 🔥 If you have friends or family in the #Atlanta area, please share to keep the momentum going! #climateaction #recyclerevolution #ATLnewsfirst
https://t.co/e8gxgZ1fyN
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We're honored to have been recently featured on @CNN's Start Small Think Big - check it out!
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We can do better, together. Will you join #ridwell in the movement to keep 10 million pounds of trash out of the waste stream this year? #sustainability
bloomberg.com
US households recycle just a fraction of the items they could, according to new research.
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Getting tired of putting stuff in the recycling bin that you know probably won’t be recycled? New startup can help you with that, @CarlyOlson_ writes:
latimes.com
Sure, the city will pick up trash and basic recyclables. But the rest of your junk? For a fee, Ridwell promises to dispose of it — and your consumer guilt.
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As a compulsive recycling-separator and e-waste-schlepper, I was excited to read this piece by @CarlyOlson_ on how @getridwell is catering to consumers' anxiety over all the junk we generate.
latimes.com
Sure, the city will pick up trash and basic recyclables. But the rest of your junk? For a fee, Ridwell promises to dispose of it — and your consumer guilt.
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Need to get rid of your junk and your consumer guilt? There's a subscription for that
latimes.com
Sure, the city will pick up trash and basic recyclables. But the rest of your junk? For a fee, Ridwell promises to dispose of it — and your consumer guilt.
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Happy New Year! We closed out 2023 by expanding service to LA, where we are growing fast. Angelenos can now join the movement to waste less with #ridwell and create more sustainable routines in 2024.
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A little #ridwell fact for the day: Did you know that between November and New Year's Day, the US produces 25% more trash, equivalent to a staggering 4 to 5 million extra tons of waste? 🎄🌎
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Hey there 👋 It has been a while since we updated you here, but we have been busy! #ridwell has now saved over 17 MILLION pounds of waste from the landfill and we are close to 90,000 members in all of our markets. We are ready for 2024 and can’t wait to continue growing with you!
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Our first pickup is this Thursday for people living in these zips: 94124, 94131, 94134, 94117, 94114, 9411094124, 94131, 94134, 94117, 94114, 94110. If you don't live in these zip codes, get updates on future free pickups by clicking the link below
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Hey San Francisco! We're coming to neighborhoods across SF these next few months and offering free pickups of thin plastic film. Our first pickup is this Thursday & you can sign up here: https://t.co/GKVBZ7VB4A
#Sanfrancisco #grassroots #wasteless
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It's a beautiful day for a food drive! Thank you, Ridwell, for collecting 574 pounds of food from clients throughout Tacoma today!
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Blinding lights burn out? Ridwell has you covered 💡♻️#getridwell #lightbulbrecycling Not, like, literally covered 🩹😬
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Interesting to see the Presidential Plastics Action Plan (#plasticfreepresident) raised in Regan's confirmation hearing - more than 500 key groups are signed on but the docket's already pretty packed... https://t.co/RcB0diznNN via @WasteDive
wastedive.com
During his February confirmation hearing, former North Carolina regulator Michael Regan also pledged to take a close look at environmental justice and climate issues, among many priorities.
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