Send less to landfills

Send less to landfills

Ridwell makes it easy to recycle and reuse more “trash,” right from your doorstep.

Join the community that’s
saved 23+ million pounds
of hard-to-recycle waste from landfills.

Join the community that’s
saved 23+ million pounds
of hard-to-recycle waste from landfills.

Rethink trash with Ridwell

Rethink trash with Ridwell

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.

Recycle and reuse more than ever before

Recycle and reuse more than ever before

We pick up hundreds of everyday items you can't recycle curbside, right from your doorstep.

Easily recycle for the first time:
  • Crinkly plastic food packaging
  • Corks, pill bottles, and other small odds and ends
Save time on specialty recycling:
  • Soft plastic film
  • Lightbulbs, cords, and more household goods
Reuse a huge variety of items:
  • Used clothing and shoes
  • Pet supplies, kitchen utensils, and more

How to Ridwell

How to Ridwell

Start sending less to landfills for $18 per month.
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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.

Why members love Ridwell

Why members love Ridwell

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.”

—Karen, member since 2019

“Gotta do it!

Ridwell makes it very easy to be very much less wasteful/harmful. I feel better about my citizenship on Earth.”

—Allan, member since 2023

“So helpful!

There is so much plastic film everywhere you look! I just love that there’s a place for it to all go.”

—Aurora, member since 2023
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Ready to Ridwell?

Ready to Ridwell?

The Ridwell Story

The Ridwell Story

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.