Ridwell is redefining transparency for the waste industry by giving you a detailed look at where your materials end up – and just how much stuff we’re keeping out of the landfill.
Ridwell is redefining transparency for the waste industry by giving you a detailed look at where your materials end up – and just how much stuff we’re keeping out of the landfill.
We work with local, regional, and national partners to divert as much as possible from the landfills.
Plastic Film
Trex turns your plastic film and wrap into new decking material. That's full circle!
Top contaminantsLightbulbs
Ecolights uses safe mechanical recycling techniques to handle lightbulb materials including mercury gas.
Threads
Pioneer Wiping Cloth uses your threads to reuse where possible and otherwise recycle into reusable cloth wipes!
Plastic Film
Trex turns your plastic film and wrap into new decking material. That's full circle!
#1 PET Clear Clamshells
Green Impact, a PET specialist, processes your #1 PET and turns it into reusable raw materials for new clamshells!
Styrofoam
Agilyx uses recycling processes to turn your old EPS into re-formable EPS raw materials for remanufacturing.
Batteries
Ecolights uses mechanical recycling techniques to recover material to create new batteries.
We have a responsibility to push the boundaries of what the industry looks like today. Our community demands that we never settle in making the world less wasteful.
We audit and track the material we collect to ensure the integrity of our service and our promise to our members. Things go exactly where they should be going.
We have a responsibility to push the boundaries of what the industry looks like today. Our community demands that we never settle in making the world less wasteful.
Our members are our heroes. We are committed to building better, stronger communities through our efforts to waste less.
Every day we collect items from our member’s homes and send them to a better place. With your help, we can keep even more out of the landfill.
Ridwell started in 2018 with four founders and a supportive community. Since then, we’ve made huge strides in wasting less by working together.
Ridwell’s four founders start our door-to-door pickup service with 60 homes in Seattle.
The Ridwell community expands beyond Seattle to Portland, Oregon to help even more people waste less.
The Ridwell community partners with Starbucks to test a pickup service to make it easy to use reusable coffee cups.
Ridwell offers a new recycling solution for #1 clear PET in Portland where service had been discontinued in 2018.
Ridwell sets a new standard for transparency because our community deserves to know where their stuff goes!
We see a world where smart consumption, simple reuse, and transparent recycling enable communities to live without waste.