Recyclebank Rewards Program to End

A township program that was only popular to a handful of Cinnaminson residents will be ending at the end of this month.

Recyclebank, a rewards program with a motivation toward recycling, will be ending after a two-year run in an effort to save the township some money.

“Looking at the usage, the rewards program and the cost to fund the rewards program, it didn’t make sense,” said Gerry Seneski, township administrator.

The program cost the township almost $3,000 a month, Seneski said. Participants of Recyclebank simply used their blue cans—which hold all paper, cereal boxes and other recyclables except glass and plastic—as normal, and based on the weight of their trash, received points as an incentive to recycle.

Those points translate into coupons that could be used locally or even with companies with as Omaha Steaks and Coca-Cola.

“There’s a handful of people who love it,” Seneski said, but not enough to keep the program sustainable.

Township Committeeman said Cinnaminson officials did not plan for the program in the .

“We wanted to give it a try and see how it worked,” Minniti said. “We were giving it a few years to work. It was just not something the residents bought into.”

Seneski also said ending the program helped to keep the tax increase at the state-mandated 2-percent cap.

The blue recycling cans will still function as usual; it’s just the rewards program that’s ending. June 30 will be the last day points will be collected, but participants in the program have 12 months to redeem any accumulated points.