Our solution is a reward system that is adapted to the 21st century, the digital era. When you are finished with a plastic bottle or ready to throw away a piece of packaging, you can instead go to any automated recycling point authorized by Convert Carbon or one of our partners, and recycle your packaging there. You scan your package, and the recycling vending machine (RVM) will present you with a QR code. You then scan that QR code using our app on your smartphone, and we reward you with the value of the recycled material (PET, HDPE, PVC, LDPE, aluminum, metal, paper) in CRB tokens — the unique credit token of the Convert Carbon platform.

The value will be sent to a digital wallet that you can easily set up for yourself using our platform, and can be redeemed for cash or other digital assets available through our app. It can also be traded on the open market or kept as a long-term investment, all managed through the digital wallet.

Compared to a Deposit Return Scheme–in which you pay a small deposit when you buy the package and get the deposit back when you return it–this is not a zero sum game. Instead of being penalized for not returning the package, you are being rewarded for doing your part in the circular economy based on the value of the materials on the international market. Because why shouldn’t you? If more people understand the value of the materials they hold in their hands, they will be more inclined to return them to the system so that they can keep being used.

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In another series of short Twitter posts we have provided tips on how to recycle better. To read more about how to recycle the proper way, here are the detailed facts, tips and tricks behind your average recycling habits:

General tips

• Find out from your local council/authorities when your recycling bin will be collected.

Also, if you’re struggling to work out if something could be recycled or not — do some research first before throwing it away or if in doubt, the label on the bottles should tell you it it’s recyclable. If non-recyclable materials are mixed in with your recycling, it can ruin the entire batch of recycling.

• Make a point of going to a recycling point: if you do this on the way to work, or the supermarket, recycling becomes a part of your routine.
• Anything you recycle should be empty, clean, and dry.

It doesn’t have to be spotless, but it should be clean and dry enough that it doesn’t contaminate other recyclables. Your newspaper can’t be recycled if it has yogurt spilled on it!

• Don’t recycle anything smaller than a credit card.

This includes things such as plastic straws or cutlery. Items that are too small can jam the recycling machinery.

• Buying products made from recycled materials increases demand for recycled materials and helps close the recycling loop.

Cardboard/paper

• Flatten cardboard

If you have any empty boxes, flatten them. This is so your able to store more in your recycling bin.

• Greasy pizza boxes are typically not recyclable.

When grease seeps into the cardboard, it makes it difficult for the cardboard to be successfully recycled. But if the top half of the box is clean, you can rip it off and recycle it!

• Recycle paper materials

You can recycle all types of paper materials, from envelopes, birthday cards to phone books, catalogues and wrapping paper. All types of cardboard can also be recycled as well — including drinks cartons and toilet roll tubes.

• Get rid of junk mail…the right way

You should recycle all paper materials, including mail you receive in the post. A handy tip is to keep a carrier bag near to your letterbox, so you can quickly dispose of junk mail.

• Create a separate area for recycling

Keep a section free in your kitchen for recycling materials — either a box or a bin will do. This makes it easier to separate garbage from useful recycling materials.

• Paper gift wrap often is not recyclable when it has a shiny or laminated coating.

If you use gift wrap, purchase a type that can be recycled or is made from recycled content. EPA encourages consumers to reuse gift bags, boxes, and tissue paper. Newspaper is an excellent alternative to gift wrap.

Plastic

• Recycle ALL plastic bottles

From drink bottles, to food bottles and even beauty product bottles — they can all go into your recycling bin! You can also recycle tubs and pots that are plastic as well. Just make sure you clean and dry them.

• Plastic is not as recyclable as you think.

Many plastic items are only recyclable in certain places, and some plastics (such as Styrofoam food containers) aren’t recyclable at all

• Those numbered recycling symbols on plastic products designate the type of plastic — and whether or not it’s recyclable.

Products marked with #1 or 2 (such as water bottles or milk jugs) are the most easily recycled, and products marked with #5 (such as yogurt containers) are sometimes recyclable. If a product is market with #3, 4, 6, or 7, it is likely not recyclable through your local council program.

• Don’t bag your recyclables.

Plastic bags are not recyclable through curbside recycling, so putting your recycling in a garbage bag can make the whole bag un-recyclable.

• Plastic bags should be recycled at the grocery store, not with your curbside recycling.

Find locations near you that offer plastic recycling.

• One of the most helpful ways to recycle bottles is to squash the air out, and then place the lid back on. This way there is neither water nor air inside.

Metal

• Metallic items = useful items

Metallic items, like kitchen foil, cans, tins and even aerosols are recyclable and should never be thrown away.

• Should aluminum cans be crushed before recycling them?

No, generally, aluminum cans should not be crushed before they are recycled. For areas with single-stream recycling, crushed cans are harder to detect when being sorted at recycling facilities. If you live in an area with multi-stream recycling, crushing cans is not an issue.

• Can I recycle aluminum foil?

Yes, aluminum foil can be recycled. Make sure to remove any food residue before recycling.

Glass

• Can I recycle different glass colors/types together?

Most curbside recycling programs accept different glass colors and types mixed together and then sort the glass at the recovery facility.

• Can I recycle broken glass?

No, broken glass should not go into the recycling bin. Glass shards can harm workers and damage equipment.

• Can I leave my metal bottle cap on my glass bottle when I recycle?

No, metal bottle caps should be recycled separately from the glass bottles.

Batteries

• Dry-Cell Batteries are used in a variety of electronics and include alkaline and carbon zinc (9-volt, D, C, AA, AAA), mercuric-oxide (button, some cylindrical and rectangular), and silver-oxide and zinc-air (button). Look for in-store recycling bins or community collection events to dispose of these batteries.
• Lithium-ion Batteries are used in many rechargeable products such as electronics, toys, wireless headphones, handheld power tools, small and large appliances, electric vehicles, and electrical energy storage systems. Do NOT put them in the trash or municipal recycling bins. Household lithium-ion batteries can be brought to dedicated in-store recycling bins or household hazardous waste collection events for disposal. Medium- and large-scale electric vehicle or energy storage batteries should be returned to the manufacturer, automobile dealer, or installation company for management at end of life.
• Lithium Metal Batteries are similar to lithium-ion batteries but are not rechargeable. They are commonly used in products such as cameras, watches, remote controls, handheld games, and smoke detectors. Do NOT put them in the trash or municipal recycling bins: look for dedicated in-store recycling bins or household hazardous waste collection events for disposal.
• Lead-Acid Batteries can be found in automobiles, boats, snowmobiles, motorcycles, golf carts, wheelchairs, and other large transportation vehicles. Return lead-acid batteries to a battery retailer or local household hazardous waste collection program; do NOT put lead-acid batteries in the trash or municipal recycling bins.
• Other Rechargeable Batteries include nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride, and nickel-zinc batteries. These batteries can be found in cordless power tools, cordless phones, cell phones, digital cameras, and small electronics. Do not put these rechargeable batteries in the trash or municipal recycling bins: look for dedicated in-store recycling bins or household hazardous waste collection events for disposal.

Used Oil

• Never dump your used motor oil down the drain — the used oil from one oil change can contaminate one million gallons of fresh water. By recycling your used oil, you help keep our water supply clean. Additionally, it takes only one gallon of used oil to produce 2.5 quarts of new motor oil compared to 42 gallons of crude oil.

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✅To celebrate the Global Recycling Day, Convert Carbon is providing some general, followed by specific tips according to the recycled material on how to proper recycle your waste.
1️⃣ Find out from your local council/authorities when your recycling bin will be collected. If you’re struggling to work out if something could be recycled or not — do some research before throwing it away or if in doubt, the label on the bottles should tell you if it’s recyclable.
‼️ If non-recyclable materials are mixed in with your recycling, it can ruin the entire batch of recycling. ‼️
2️⃣ Make a habit of going to a recycling point: if you do this on the way to work, or the supermarket, recycling becomes a part of your routine.
3️⃣ Anything you recycle should be empty, clean, and dry. It doesn’t have to be spotless, but it should be clean and dry enough that it doesn’t contaminate other recyclables.
‼️Your newspaper can’t be recycled if it has yogurt spilled on it ‼️
4️⃣ Don’t recycle anything smaller than a credit card. This includes things such as plastic straws or cutlery.
‼️Items that are too small can jam the recycling machinery ‼️
5️⃣ Buying products made from recycled materials increases demand for recycled materials and helps close the recycling loop.
Stay tuned for more tips on how to recycle specific materials such as cardboard, plastic, metal, glass, etc.
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At Convert Carbon, we are developing a way for non-profit organizations to support themselves financially by managing recycling activities. We want to make it rewarding to recycle no matter where in the world you are through our Convert Carbon platform.

The Convert Carbon platform is a blockchain-based system where manufacturers, recycling companies and end-users can come together to make it rewarding to move towards a more circular economy. Manufacturers can trace their materials and get them back once they have reached their end of life, recycling companies can trace the amount of materials they recycle and end users get rewarded financially for bringing used products into the recycling process.

This means that non-profits can team up with us to host recycling activities that bring revenue to the organization, simply by taking what would become waste and putting it back into the recycling system. Our idea to the NGOs is to become our adopters, highlight the importance of recycling and maybe even create recycling events together with us?

We would love to hear everyone’s thoughts on this. How can we make it profitable for organizations to host recycling events?

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Types of plastics, where to be found, how to recycle and what are they turned into

Pretty much the title says it all, but here we are at the end of a Twitter campaign where we tried to educate people of the importance of knowing the types of plastic and everything that comes with them.

You will find below 7 types of plastics explained in a short and comprehensive fashion.

If we could all dedicate a couple of minutes of reading this, we would be doing a lot of good to the planet. If only 1 item we start recycling correctly, imagine what impact we can have on the environment?!

So here we go⬇️

#1 PET or PETE (polyethylene terephthalate) — is the most common plastic for single-use bottled beverages, because it’s inexpensive, lightweight, and easy to recycle. It poses low risk of leaching breakdown products. Its recycling rates remain relatively low (around 20%), even though the material is in high demand by manufacturers.

✅Found in: Soft drinks, water, ketchup, and beer bottles; mouthwash bottles; peanut butter containers; salad dressing and vegetable oil containers

♻️How to recycle it: PET or PETE can be picked up through most curbside recycling programs as long as it’s been emptied and rinsed of any food. When it comes to caps, our environmental pros say it’s probably better to dispose of them in the trash (since they’re usually made of a different type of plastic), unless your town explicitly says you can throw them in the recycle bin. There’s no need to remove bottle labels because the recycling process separates them.

♻️Recycled into: Polar fleece, fiber, tote bags, furniture, carpet, paneling, straps, bottles and food containers (as long as the plastic being recycled meets purity standards and doesn’t have hazardous contaminants).

#2 HDPE (high density polyethylene) is a versatile plastic with many uses, especially when it comes to packaging. It carries low risk of leaching and is readily recyclable into many types of goods.

✅Found in: Milk jugs; juice bottles; bleach, detergent, and other household cleaner bottles; shampoo bottles; some trash and shopping bags; motor oil bottles; butter and yogurt tubs; cereal box liners

♻️How to recycle it: HDPE can often be picked up through most curbside recycling programs, although some allow only containers with necks. Flimsy plastics (like grocery bags and plastic wrap) usually can’t be recycled, but some stores will collect and recycle them.

♻️Recycled into: Laundry detergent bottles, oil bottles, pens, recycling containers, floor tile, drainage pipe, lumber, benches, doghouses, picnic tables, fencing, shampoo bottles.

#3 PVC (polyvinyl chloride) and V (vinyl) is tough and weathers well, so it’s commonly used for things like piping and siding. PVC is also cheap, so it’s found in plenty of products and packaging. Because chlorine is part of PVC, it can result in the release of highly dangerous dioxins during manufacturing. Remember to never burn PVC, because it releases toxins.

✅Found in: Shampoo and cooking oil bottles, blister packaging, wire jacketing, siding, windows, piping

♻️How to recycle it: PVC and V can rarely be recycled, but it’s accepted by some plastic lumber makers. If you need to dispose of either material, ask your local waste management to see if you should put it in the trash or drop it off at a collection center.

♻️Recycled into: Decks, paneling, mud-flaps, roadway gutters, flooring, cables, speed bumps, mats.

#4 LDPE (low density polyethylene) is a flexible plastic with many applications. Historically, it hasn’t been accepted through most American recycling programs, but more and more communities are starting to accept it.

✅Found in: Squeezable bottles; bread, frozen food, dry cleaning, and shopping bags; tote bags; furniture

♻️How to recycle it: LDPE is not often recycled through curbside programs, but some communities might accept it. That means anything made with LDPE (like toothpaste tubes) can be thrown in the trash. Just like we mentioned under HDPE, plastic shopping bags can often be returned to stores for recycling.

♻️Recycled into: Trash can liners and cans, compost bins, shipping envelopes, paneling, lumber, landscaping ties, floor tile.

#5 PP (polypropylene) has a high melting point, so it’s often chosen for containers that will hold hot liquid. It’s gradually becoming more accepted by recyclers.

✅Found in: Some yogurt containers, syrup and medicine bottles, caps, straws

♻️How to recycle it: PP can be recycled through some curbside programs, just don’t forget to make sure there’s no food left inside. It’s best to throw loose caps into the garbage since they easily slip through screens during recycling and end up as trash anyways.

♻️Recycled into: Signal lights, battery cables, brooms, brushes, auto battery cases, ice scrapers, landscape borders, bicycle racks, rakes, bins, pallets, trays.

#6 PS (polystyrene) can be made into rigid or foam products — in the latter case it is popularly known as the trademark Styrofoam. Styrene monomer (a type of molecule) can leach into foods and is a possible human carcinogen, while styrene oxide is classified as a probable carcinogen. The material was long on environmentalists’ hit lists for dispersing widely across the landscape, and for being notoriously difficult to recycle. Most places still don’t accept it in foam forms because it’s 98% air.

✅Found in: Disposable plates and cups, meat trays, egg cartons, carry-out containers, aspirin bottles, compact disc cases.

♻️How to recycle it: Not many curbside recycling programs accept PS in the form of rigid plastics (and many manufacturers have switched to using PET instead). Since foam products tend to break apart into smaller pieces, you should place them in a bag, squeeze out the air, and tie it up before putting it in the trash to prevent pellets from dispersing.

♻️Recycled into: Insulation, light switch plates, egg cartons, vents, rulers, foam packing, carry-out containers.

#7 Miscellaneous. A wide variety of plastic resins that don’t fit into the previous categories are lumped into this one. Polycarbonate is number seven plastic, and it’s the hard plastic that has worried parents after studies have shown it as a hormone disruptor. PLA (polylactic acid), which is made from plants and is carbon neutral, also falls into this category.

✅Found in: Three- and five-gallon water bottles, bullet-proof materials, sunglasses, DVDs, iPod and computer cases, signs and displays, certain food containers, nylon.

♻️How to recycle it: These other plastics are traditionally not recycled, so don’t expect your local provider to accept them. The best option is to consult your municipality’s website for specific instructions.

♻️Recycled into: Plastic lumber and custom-made products.

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Convert Carbon is a token platform where companies can track and recycle the packaging resulted after product use, thus hitting their recycling target (mandatory by regulations), providing proof of doing it and at the same time, creating a better and cleaner world. The support is granted from the beginning, through financing and fundraising, tech assistance from our developers and both before and after the release of their products.

Convert Carbon delivers a whole new rewarding system that will serve end users, merchants, producers and all customers around the world, while motivating them to recycle more, earn from recycling materials and

keeping the environment safer. Our platform will deliver a higher quality experience with the help of blockchain technology and newest innovations out there and at the same time changing the way we get paid for recycling.

Think of how many such people and businesses can benefit from our Carbon system.

There are numerous issues in the ecosystem today, however, one of the most controversial is the recycling business as a whole. Following an extensive research on the market, our product aims to fill the gaps between manufacturing companies, end users and recycling companies, to make the ecosystem work as a whole in the interest of all mankind, creating a bridge between today’s problems and the future.

Using our solutions and through blockchain technology, customers are assured that they get paid while recycling, companies get their big data to manage targets and trace the recycled byproduct all in smart apps.

Poor quality services are quite common in the recycling industry which comes in the form of manipulated reports, lack of transparency and low environmental impact. Moreover, the lack of innovation, tracking and recycling causes major environmental issues that affect both the end user and the environment. user and the manufacturer.

The Convert Carbon Ecosystem solves all problems mentioned above by implementing a reward system for both regular people and business owners. Carbon developers and designers will work together with the biggest companies in the industry to deploy the latest technology on the market to help them achieve the target.