Green economics

This is from Recyclebank.com. This site has a page about other municipalities invovled with the program. This is a very possible program that our community could be a client of and with our economical condition we all can find a benifit.

Greener cities and towns make everyone happy. The more a municipality can save in landfill diversion and make money on recyclables, the more there will be to give back to the community, while giving back to the planet. Teaming up with RecycleBank is a unique opportunity to:

1. Realize significant savings from landfill diversion, while increasing revenue through commodity value of recyclables.

2. Provide households with meaningful savings with valuable RecycleBank Rewards.

3. Drive revenue and customer loyalty for local businesses participating in the RecycleBank Rewards Program.

4. Powerful reporting tools that track program results including participaition, weights, reward redemption and local economic and environmental impact.

There are some nice benefits with this concept. There are still some questions about the program but there is one other Ohio city using this venture and I'm sure they would be happy to talk about the program.

Will this help relieve some of our budgetary problems in order to curb our communities mounting debt? It may. Plus the community receives incentives to spend the rewards in our community. Its a sizable look and weight.

Shane