The membership-based company has diverted more than 10 million pounds of material from landfills since 2018.
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In 2022, Ridwell operated in Seattle, the Bay Area, Portland, Oregon; Denver, Minneapolis and Austin, Texas, and since 2018 has diverted 10 million pounds of material — including 270,000 pounds of batteries — from landfills. Marking a further expansion in the Bay Area, where the company already services Peninsula cities and Oakland , Berkeley and El Cerrito. Metzger plans this year to add Richmond, El Sobrante, San Francisco and San Jose to Ridwell’s coverage area.
Monthly membership fees range from $14 to $18. Working with partners in the Bay Area such as East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, GreenCitizen, East Oakland Collective, East Bay Children’s Book Project and others, Ridwell ensures the goods are recycled, reused, repurposed or donated to nonprofits for the community’s good.
“There was an outdoor mall proposed. It was going to be built on wetlands. I wondered, ‘Do we really need more of this kind of thing? Do we need this amount of consumption?’ I was thinking about what would be lost; the marshlands and the plants and insects that live there. It was eventually built, unfortunately. Now it’s struggling like many malls today.”
“The thing about sustainability is that we’ve all got a dog in the fight,” Eis said. “Ridwell is focusing on waste management, but that’s just one element in this complex issue. For the cash-strapped family of six, they’ll see cheaper utility bills if their local recycler has less contaminated materials.
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