Help Macungie Borough get a $100,000 grant by recycling!

Great news! Our Borough has been chosen to participate in the Recyclebank and SC Johnson Green Choices Recycling Challenge, a nationwide competition to get us all recycling. By joining in, you could help us get a $100,000 grant towards a community sustainability project! And you’ll earn points for deals and discounts, too.

Only one community in each state was chosen to be in this challenge, so let’s make the most of this opportunity! Sign up today by calling 1-888-727-2978, option 1, option 1 again.  You can speak to a customer representative or do it through the automated registration.  Either way you will be taking a step in helping the planet and helping your community.

How can you help?

First, we need everyone participating. You can sign up today by calling 1-888-727-2978. If our community has the highest percentage of residents reporting recycling at the end of the challenge, we could receive the $100,000 grant. Each month you recycle with Waste Management and report your recycling on Recyclebank’s website you’re helping our standings in the challenge.

You’ll earn rewards, too.

When you recycle with Waste Management, you’ll not only help our standings, you’ll also earn Recyclebank Points good towards deals and discounts at over 3,000 local and national businesses. Recyclebank is a FREE program that rewards you for taking everyday green actions, like recycling at home. 

Do it for the community. Do it for the planet.

Recycling is one of the easiest ways we can help our community. It keeps valuable resources out of the landfills, saves energy, reduces pollution and conserves our natural resources. With this unique opportunity to get a $100,000 grant, it can also be very rewarding.

HOW RECYCLEBANK WORKS

Macungie Borough residents need to sign up for a free Recyclebank account and report their recycling activity — that’s it! Residents can visit www.recyclebank.com/greenchoices and follow the prompts to get started. Don't forget to enter your PIN number you received in the mail.

Once a Recyclebank member, residents must report their recycling at least once a month on the Recyclebank website in order to earn points for their recycling efforts. Residents can also use the Recyclebank smartphone app on their iPhone and Android devices to report their recycling, check their Recyclebank Points balance and discover eligible reward offers.

Recyclebank is similar to a frequent flyer program; rather, members instead earn points for living a more sustainable lifestyle.

Members can use those points to “shop” at Recyclebank.com for rewards such as discounts and deals from hundreds of reward partners in more than 10 categories including food and beverage, health, beauty, home, clothing, accessories and gifts. Over the course of a year, an average family can earn hundreds of points that can be redeemed for special rewards; this translates into real value — more than $160 annually — for families in [Community].

Available rewards include deals on a suite of SC Johnson brands such as Ziploc®, Windex®, Scrubbing Bubbles®, Glade®, and discounts from retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond and Macy’s and restaurants like Olive Garden.

An example of a special deal available is $1.50 on any two Ziploc® Brand Containers for 70 Recyclebank Points (subject to change).

So sign up now, get recycling and be sure to make it count by reporting it at Recyclebank.com/greenchoices! Together, we could get that $100,000 grant! And be sure to tell your friends and neighbors, too.

Challenge Period: July 2nd, 2012 – December 31st, 2012.The Green Choices Recycling Challenge is intended to encourage resident recycling participation in each participant community and award the community that exhibits through skill, innovation, planning, and other measures the most recycling participation during the Challenge Period with a grant to fund a green community project. Eligibility is limited to communities who have been solicited by Recycle Rewards, Inc. and agreed to participate in the Challenge.  For a list of participating communities, go to www.recyclebank.com/greenchoices. Member participation: Individual households registered with Recycle Rewards, Inc. within a participating community must self-report with Recycle Rewards, Inc. its recycling participation each month during the Challenge Period. Grant: $100,000 grant to be used for a project or program that promotes community sustainability. Complete Official Rules at: www.recyclebank.com/greenchoices.