{"id":41315,"date":"2013-08-15T00:09:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T07:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=41315"},"modified":"2013-08-15T00:09:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T07:09:55","slug":"greenbean-recycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/41315","title":{"rendered":"Greenbean Recycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFingers crossed!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a nifty idea hatched on the East Coast that I hope will soon head its wagons west \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbrecycle.com\/\">Greenbean Recycle<\/a> (or &#8220;GB Recycle,&#8221; as all the cool kids call it) is an innovative approach to keeping cans and bottles\u2014both plastic and glass\u2014out of garbage cans.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41335\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41335\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-41335 \" alt=\"giving_back-greenbean_recycle1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/giving_back-greenbean_recycle1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Benoit Rochon via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The gist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recycle a can in a vending-type machine<\/li>\n<li>Get an instant deposit in your Paypal account<\/li>\n<li>Learn the energy benefit of your one simple action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Greenbean machine will happily keep tabs on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbrecycle.com\/extra#challenges\">recycling competitions<\/a> between you and friends, too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41336\" style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41336\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-41336 \" alt=\"giving_back-greenbean_recycle2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/giving_back-greenbean_recycle2.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"397\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jarrod Jones, MIT Department of Facilities<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;When users see their names on a leader board, they are more engaged to come and continue recycling,&#8221; says inventor Shanker Sahai. &#8220;Recycling is a boring chore and sometimes you don\u2019t know how your effort makes a difference or even if it is recycled and re-used, so by showing a user that even one bottle or can makes a difference in real time, the user is encouraged to keep recycling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, hey, the Greenbean makes fun crushing sounds.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t beat that!<\/p>\n<p>How, you ask, does this machine differ from the &#8220;reverse vending machines&#8221; outside grocery stores and strip malls where you can return bags full of recyclables?<\/p>\n<p>Sahai designed the Greenbean to be convenient for a passerby who just finished a single bottle of water and is likely to pitch in in the trash.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41337\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41337\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-41337 \" alt=\"giving_back-greenbean_recycle3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/giving_back-greenbean_recycle3.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dsw4 via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The eight machines installed to date are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbrecycle.com\/extra#location\">strategically located<\/a> on college campuses. Hopefully, their success will fuel a demand for Greenbeans in office buildings and on street corners nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the project&#8217;s Live Stats for today at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbrecycle.com\/\">GB Recycle<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fingers crossed! Here&#8217;s a nifty idea hatched on the East Coast that I hope will soon head its wagons west \u2026 Greenbean Recycle (or &#8220;GB Recycle,&#8221; as all the cool kids call it) is an innovative approach to keeping cans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/41315\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/41315\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giving_back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}