Chester County waste collection and recycling company Ches-Mont Disposal has teamed up with RecycleBank to offer customers in two townships an incentive-based recycling service that makes recycling easy and convenient for customers.

About 1,500 customers in Montgomery Township, Montgomery County and Warrington Township, Bucks County received new 64-gallon recycling contains the week of October 24 to recycle their bi-metal, tin, aluminum, plastic and glass containers as well as newspapers, cardboard, magazines, junk mail, office paper and cereal boxes.

As containers are picked up by Ches-Mont, they are automatically weighed and the weight recorded for each customer using a chip that is part of the container. For each pound of recyclables, the customer earns a RecycleBank dollar—up to $25 per month-- that can be redeemed for coupons at more than 100 local stores and other service partners.

“The RecycleBank single stream recycling—putting everything in one container—makes it easy and more convenient for our customers, with the added incentive of giving customers coupons they are able to redeem at a local store,” said Patrick Kelly, Vice President of Ches-Mont. “Prior to the RecycleBank Program, customers used an 18-gallon container versus the 64-gallon container and they had to keep certain items separate as opposed to the single stream method and there was no other incentive.”

“Using RecycleBank is a way for us to differentiate ourselves from our competition. We would hope that this will result in more customers choosing to do business with Ches-Mont Disposal and RecycleBank,” said Kelly. “We offered this pilot service to our existing customers in Montgomery and Warrington Townships first because of the proximity to the Blue Mountain Recycling facility that separates our recyclables for us.”

Earlier this year, the RecycleBank Program helped pilot areas in the City of Philadelphia more than triple the amount of materials recycled as well as participation.

“The new program does help us avoid the costs of taking material to the landfill that are recycled because of the increased capacity of the containers and the additional items that are being recycled – plus we have provided residents with new incentives,” said Kelly.

Ches-Mont offered the new program to customers at no increase in cost.

For more information, visit the websites for Ches-Mont Disposal, RecycleBank and Blue Mountain Recycling

11/25/2005