Ridwell’s father-son origin story is as compelling as it is adorable. This startup story neatly answers the question "why now." Founder Ryan Metzger capitalized on a big change in the recycling ...

Seattle-based recycling start-up Ridwell has expanded to include the city of Santa Monica following its successful roll out in seven other metro areas, many of which are up and down the West Coast ...

For a fee of $14, $18, or $24 a month, depending on a user's needs, Ridwell members get reusable canvas bags, a special Ridwell bin, and the knowledge that their recyclables will be picked up from ...

Then Ridwell found organizations to recycle Styrofoam, batteries, lightbulbs and clothing. Customers signed up for the service and were given a bin to keep outside, with canvas bags labeled with ...

Recycling intermediaries such as Ridwell and Trashie can take the schlep out of ... (chip bags and frozen-food packaging), textiles, light bulbs, clear plastic clamshells, Styrofoam, latex ...

Since 2018, Ridwell has diverted 25 million pounds of waste from landfills and expanded across seven states, Loewen said. “We’re setting a new standard in the recycling industry,” she said.

Ridwell, the home recycling collection service, also offers clients pickup of Styrofoam, which it hauls to Green Century. Agilyx was experimenting with ways to chemically break down polystyrene ...

Fast forward six years, and Ridwell now picks up the recycling of more than 100,000 people across seven states. Ridwell began offering services in parts of Tacoma in March 2021 and in Olympia in ...

Jens Narveson is the head of the St. Paul warehouse for Ridwell, a company that picks up waste that traditional curbside recycling can't typically accept. ... and recycles, hard Styrofoam packing.

Fast forward six years, and Ridwell now picks up the recycling of more than 100,000 people across seven states. Ridwell began offering services in parts of Tacoma in March 2021 and Olympia in ...

In 2024, Twin Cities Ridwell customers collected over 500,000 pounds of plastic film, said Jens Narveson, Ridwell’s Minneapolis operations manager. That’s about the same as recycling the ...

The “recycling carpool” was such a success that they decided to keep it going, finding places to safely dispose of lightbulbs, Styrofoam, clothing and even Halloween candy, tackling a new ...