What we take
Clear plastic clamshells containers
From grocery stores to farmers' markets, it's hard to avoid these clear plastic clamshells - they’re everywhere! Made from PET, these plastic packages often can't be recycled because they get contaminated either with food or during the single stream the recycling process.
What we do with it
We work directly with PET recyclers who specialize in clamshell containers. By collecting directly from our members, we can avoid any contamination that may occur in a mixed recycling bin, and ensure that your clamshells get a new life.
Your clamshells and trays are washed, reprocessed, and turned into post-consumer resin to be used again in new plastics. This process leaves a minimal carbon footprint and helps create a circular world by turning recycled clamshells into other plastics over and over, instead of winding up in our landfills, or worse... in the oceans, lakes, and rivers!
About our partners
How we keep your Clear plastic clamshells containers out of landfills.
We partner directly with innovators who transform hard-to-recycle materials into new products—so you can see exactly where your items go and what they become.
Featured Partner
D6
Founded in 2014, D6 has emerged as a leader in sustainable packaging and domestic mechanical recycling of food packaging. Often overshadowed by bottles and cans, other types of food packaging, such as clamshells, are a crucial element of the circular economy. D6 is revolutionizing sustainable packaging and recycling with a mission to create a carbon-negative future. They are pioneering sustainable recycling with cutting-edge operations, leading the tray-to-tray upcycling of plastic and clamshells that were historically destined for landfills.
Featured Partner
Recology
Recology collects and recovers recyclable materials such as paper, metals, organics and plastics. Clamshells collected by Ridwell are merged with other materials and sorted at Recology’s Seattle material recovery facility. Your clamshells will be grouped with other like-plastics where they will be recycled and made into new plastic products.
Clamshells are a tricky and costly material to collect, separate and sort. Many of our members live in areas with curbside recycling collection programs that are not capable of recycling clamshells, and Ridwell helps those members get their clamshells to a Recology facility that can effectively separate and sort these materials.
Featured Partner
K&S Recycling
Since 2009, K&S Recycling has been helping keep materials out of Pacific Northwest landfills. Specializing in the recycling of plastics, paper and other recycling commodities, K&S has helped businesses improve their recycling programs, minimize their carbon footprint and divert more material from landfills. Clamshell items collected from Ridwell members will be grouped with other like-plastics where they will be recycled and made into new plastic products.
