You can now recycle your glass from your front porch with Ridwell!
Glass has been removed from curbside recycling programs in Olympia and Tacoma. Because of the support from our community, Ridwell is launching glass recycling pickups!
We'll send you email updates about glass recycling which you can opt out of at any time!
There’s a reason communities are losing glass in their curbside recycling. When glass is mixed with other recyclables, it gets broken and contaminated, making it hard to recycle. Plus, it’s heavy and expensive to transport.
And yet, our community knows it’s important: glass can be recycled over and over again, right here in Washington.
Because of your support, glass recycling pickups are available again in Olympia and Pierce County.
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Get a brand new orange glass bag!
We’ll deliver your orange bag so you can collect and store your glass (rinsed out please!).
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Place your Ridwell bag out for pickup.
We come by every two weeks. Opt in to your pickup and leave it out for us!
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Real recycling by local recycling partners.
We screen and send your glass to local partners in the Pacific Northwest for recycling.
After we pick up your glass
1% contamination vs. 60% from single-stream collection
We work with dedicated glass partners in the Pacific Northwest to recycle your glass. Read more about what happens to your stuff. You deserve to know the details.
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The Ridwell team sorts glass to ensure the material we bring to our recyclers is clean and can really be recycled. Our partners turn this glass into ‘cullet’, small pellets of glass. They send this glass cullet to glass producers who make new glass bottles and jars.
“I've been hoping glass will come.
This is huge and will make a big difference for me! I can likely convince others to join for glass recycling too!”
“A great value to Ridwell memberships.
It's really difficult to store and transport glass!”
“Very excited for this!
We were really bummed when curbside recycling went away. Took a few glass loads to recycling center but it got too annoying and we stoped recycling them, so I'm excited for this.”
Less energy needed
Recycled glass requires 25-30% less energy to melt than virgin batch materials.
Lower air and carbon emissions
One ton of carbon dioxide is reduced for every six tons of recycled glass used in the manufacturing process.
Reduced environmental impact
Recycled glass reduces the need for precious raw materials and the water used to extract them.
