Ridwell – It’s HERE!

I have my shiny new Ridwell box, and crisp new Ridwell bags. So let the grand experiment begin. For $10/trip, impromptu each trip: if I show up and you’ve got this big ‘ol bag of batteries, yea, sure, in my car it goes. Or the empty pill bottles. You thought you’d use those bread tags in an art project. I’ll take away your Ridwell stuff and process it through my account because, for you, a Ridwell account can be a nuisance, IF you happen to have a poor sense of time, or sorting isn’t your thing, or out-of-sight is out of mind…  If you haven’t got something, I don’t take something. And if my Ridwell bag starts to rip because I’ve got soooooo many batteries, I commit to getting to equivalent entities like Staples if necessary.

Ridwell is an AMAZING company which provides a subscription service to help people responsibly dispose of hard-to-recycle items like batteries. I ADORE Ridwell, for everything from its humble Seattle origins, to its conscientious, creative expansions of its capacity and its territories.

I’m not going to be able to take the honkin’ huge stuff like styrofoam. And I need to be honest here. I’ve been doing some of this for free, as a courtesy. My challenge is the fact that it is getting harder and harder and harder and harder for me to do so, because gas is going up, the pool of recycling agencies is shrinking, and OMMIMULTIVERSE the commute.

I am NOT considering charging for my three basic donation services, Bella’s Voice, PCs for People (formerly Interconnection), and a Hopelink Food Bank. And I’m not going to eliminate the option of coordinating something more complicated for a fee – my favorite example of that for all time is here.