At These Retailers, You Can Actually Get Rewarded For Recycling!

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PennyGem’s Chloe Hurst helps reveal some ways retailers aren’t wasting the opportunity to reduce environmental impact by offering recycling reward systems.

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00:00money motivation usually works for most incentivized trickery and these retailers

00:08have got you covered well at least in discounts or freebies to reward you for recycling money

00:15talks news reports certain companies are offering a recycle program to turn your hoarding items into

00:21store credit coupons or best of all cash popular fashion retailer H&M are offering 15% off your

00:28next in-store purchase in exchange for clothing of any brand in any condition as part of their

00:34textile recycling program as part of the cosmetic company's back to mac initiative mac cosmetics are

00:40working to reduce the environmental impact of their packaging by helping to reduce the amount

00:45of plastic sent to landfill turn in six empty mac containers to participating stores or by mail

00:51and you will get a free standard lipstick of your choice your environment will thank you for it

00:57according to the conversation over an average lifetime of 78.7 years one american would send

01:0367 000 pounds of waste to landfills and the likely cause of an average american's 4.5 pounds of daily

01:10waste lies in the ignorance of waste problems and recycling strategies motivation matters because

01:17gone are the days of information being enough to drive sustainable behavior according to a 2014 survey

01:2341 percent of participants said money or rewards were the most effective way to get them to recycle

01:29so keep going retailers let's not waste an opportunity to do better

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