SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability



Sustainability

The U.S. communities are devising different strategies to improve the recycling and garbage collection while trying to reduce recycling cost.  Local government and organizations are faced with a big challenge as they develop recycling programs that best work in their community.  New York City should adopt the Recycle Bank Program to increase recycling and reduce waste. Ground-breaking new recycling program called Recycle Bank promises to promote community recycling participation while facilitating economic incentive as a reward. According to an argument, recycling behaviors are not inborn, but result in huge economic and environmental benefits. On the other hand, experts criticize and question whether recycling is economically viable, resulting in a debate that pushes back on waste management development. Currently, households are responsible for paying for the garbage disposal. Since this program is not attached to any financial incentive, communities are not contributing to recycling as they should. I believe that we should adopt the recycling program Recycle Bank in New your City since it will help us deal with the waste management challenges very effectively.

Doctoral candidate Scott Kaufman is a pioneer that has helped the implementation of ground- breaking new recycling program in Philadelphia since 2005. Scott is a research director of Recycle Bank, and Recycle Bank is a fairly new recycling program intended to motivate recyclers' contribution by rewarding them with coupons that can be interchanged in many businesses like Starbucks, Home Depot and foods and more.

According to the Recycle Bank corporation site, written in October 5th 2010, it cost the City $750,000 from the Energy Efficiency & Conservation Block Grants to set the program in motion and to pay for the new recycling carts. Once this one-time investment is complete, the program doesn't cost more than the original collection recycling method.

Although this program aims to increase recycling, it ...