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Waste Management

Greenopolis Recycling Kiosk


The goal for the Greenopolis kiosks is to provide information and tools to help end users recycle easily. This helps to save the planet's natural resources for our children's children and gives Greenopolis the ability to track conservation through recycling and re-useEducate and reward conservation.

The kiosk functions like an ATM that will recognize both users that are members of Greenopolis and users who are not. For each transactional activity, the data is uploaded to a series of networked databases with integrated registered user data on a consumer web interface at Greenopolis.com. At the end of the transaction process users have three options to redeem for their qualified recyclable goods.

  • Receive cash voucher for products ingested for participating bottle bill states.
  • Donate cash due for charitable entities in bottle bill states.
  • Award the end user for loyalty points available when they are a member of the Greenopolis rewards program or in non-bottle bill states

With over 300 Greenopolis kiosks, more than 6,000,000 items have been recycled. This has distributed over 3,200,000 points earned by Greenopolis members. The program is central with the new Think Green marketing plans and concepts for Waste Management corporate to monitor, manage and review consumers recycling habits and education in the space.