Ridwell makes it easy to recycle and reuse more “trash,” right from your doorstep.
Bubble wrap. Chip bags. Styrofoam. You've never had an easy way to recycle these things—so they usually end up in landfills, taking decades or longer to break down.
We've found 200+ partners to repurpose tons of "trash" so materials like plastic film get turned into useful products like decking planks.
We pick up hundreds of everyday items you can't recycle curbside, right from your doorstep.
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Collect materials in your Ridwell bags.
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Place Ridwell bags in your bin for pickup every two weeks.
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Track how much waste you and your community keep out of landfills.
The Ridwell community is 100,000 members strong across 8 major cities.
“It empowers me.
With Ridwell, I'm more conscious of what's difficult to recycle and I try to avoid those products.”
“Gotta do it!
Ridwell makes it very easy to be very much less wasteful/harmful. I feel better about my citizenship on Earth.”
“So helpful!
There is so much plastic film everywhere you look! I just love that there’s a place for it to all go.”
It all started with Owen, a curious kid trying to do the right thing with dead batteries and seeing how hard it was.
So, he and his dad started a "recycling carpool" to help their neighbors take care of hard-to-recycle items. That grassroots effort evolved into Ridwell, a community of over 100,000 people making an impact through easy porch pickups of materials that can't be recycled curbside.