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Article: RecycleBank to expand in Conn., Texas.(News)
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- Waste & Recycling News
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Byline: Amanda Smith-Teutsch
RecycleBank has announced two municipal pilot programs will be expanded to larger programs this month.
The expansions were announced in Hartford, Conn., and Houston.
RecycleBank encourages people to recycle by rewarding households with points for their efforts. These points are redeemable at local and national retailers, restaurants, grocers and other businesses.
Following a pilot program servicing 4,500 residents that began in May 2008, now nearly 25,000 Hartford households will have the single-stream recycling service.
In Hartford, single-family households will receive free 64-gallon recycling ...