WHAT IT IS?
RECICLOS rewards your environmental responsibility through a deposit return scheme (DRS).
Every time you recycle your drink cans and plastic bottles in the yellow container or in your city’s RECICLOS machines, you receive RECICLOS, which you can redeem for a chance to win prizes or donate to social and environmental projects.
With RECICLOS, you win and so does the environment.
WHY IT´S COOL?
- Rewards for reciclying ( electric scooters, tablets or bicycles).
- Sustainabily habits returns into local people, which you can support and help improve your local area.
- Improve envornmental behaviour.
- Makes easier recycling process in domestic market.
- Environmental improvement.
WHY IT HAS FUTURE GROWTH POTENTIAL?
Although recycling rates for household packaging in Spain increase each year. Reciclos was born as an innovative idea to assist local governments to create more accountable and sustainable communities.. This idea served as the foundation for the this project who means the future of small beverage package live.
Through identification, the recycling habit has evolved digitally. You therefore win and the environment wins each time you dispose of your cans and beverage bottles in the yellow bin and register them in the RECICLOS system.
The infrastructures that currently exist and that residents frequently use (the yellow and blue bins) are modernised by RECICLOS by adding mobile technology to make them compatible with new digital habits.
Blockchain, artificial intelligence, and image recognition innovations are all part of its technical evolution. Due to all this development, the tool is now able to reinforce the relationship between the citizens and the bin via mobile phones and incentives, solidifying the recycling habit even more.
Science of the Time
Aster Baker