Companies such as Ridwell and Trashie say they’ll help you recycle the stuff you don’t want to throw out. But are their services worth paying for?

Ridwell CEO and cofounder Ryan Metzger holds a bag filled with plastic trash next to a van that transports recyclables outside the Mountain View Community Center on May 2. Photo by Emily Margaretten.

Back in Alameda, Juan Lopez drove one of the company’s white vans through a residential neighborhood, pulling over every few blocks to pick up junk that customers had left in their boxes. A former ...

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Ridwell is offering Sonoma County and city of Napa residents a new way to make sure hard-to-recycle plastics don’t end up in landfills. This company is banking on it Skip to content Skip to footer ...

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In an interview at Ridwell’s warehouse in the Cornwall Park neighborhood, Taylor Loewen said that most clamshells are made of lightweight clear plastic called No. 1 PETE, which is recyclable.

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 ...

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.

It’s been just over a year since Nadine Edelstein’s Sunday Styrofoam recycling program ended, and recycling company Ridwell now has more than 400 islanders subscribing to their service. You may have ...