How are you sure discs dropped in retail bins are making it to trex, given the studies done showing a lot of plastic films in retail bins doesn't make it to recyclers?
Since Obaggo doesn't operate any of the retail store take-back locations, I can't credibly say what happens at any particular one. The locations that we include on our lookup directory are operated by Trex, the nations biggest consumer of plastic bags and film, so the material should be getting collected. The studies that you mention found that several large retailers, Walmart and Target I believe, were the ones where the transponders ended up in landfill. But it was never clear if the transponders were found in the bags and discarded, or whether the bags and the transponders were discarded. Either way, Trex stopped working with those retailers, and they are not on our list either.
Hi David! I came here with the same question after watching the ABC investigation on Hulu. I think at one point, you said Helpsy was a good place to drop Obaggo disks? We don't have a bin here, unfortunately. I'm on my town's recycling committee and working on our May newsletter on plastic film. While I can't really advertise Obaggo, I do want to provide a few options to people. I get chicken-egg of any new initiative, but it would be helpful if we can say that S&S/Shaws do use reputable recyclers? (Please feel free to contact me by email ...) --G
There were several high-profile stories in the news last year, where news organizations placed radio-transmitters into the retail store drop-off bins at Walmart and Target, and the radio transmitters ended up at landfills. However, these were not retail stores part of the Trex network, and Trex does not do business with these companies because of this problem. We only list locations that are part of the Trex network on www.Obaggo.com. If you ask retail store managers about the recycling of bags, they will almost always say, "we are in the grocery business, not the recycling business". This is the fundamental problem with retail store drop-off, and why Obaggo is working towards an alternative solution.
Since Obaggo doesn't operate any of the retail store take-back locations, I can't credibly say what happens at any particular one. The locations that we include on our lookup directory are operated by Trex, the nations biggest consumer of plastic bags and film, so the material should be getting collected. The studies that you mention found that several large retailers, Walmart and Target I believe, were the ones where the transponders ended up in landfill. But it was never clear if the transponders were found in the bags and discarded, or whether the bags and the transponders were discarded. Either way, Trex stopped working with those retailers, and they are not on our list either.
Hi David! I came here with the same question after watching the ABC investigation on Hulu. I think at one point, you said Helpsy was a good place to drop Obaggo disks? We don't have a bin here, unfortunately. I'm on my town's recycling committee and working on our May newsletter on plastic film. While I can't really advertise Obaggo, I do want to provide a few options to people. I get chicken-egg of any new initiative, but it would be helpful if we can say that S&S/Shaws do use reputable recyclers? (Please feel free to contact me by email ...) --G
There were several high-profile stories in the news last year, where news organizations placed radio-transmitters into the retail store drop-off bins at Walmart and Target, and the radio transmitters ended up at landfills. However, these were not retail stores part of the Trex network, and Trex does not do business with these companies because of this problem. We only list locations that are part of the Trex network on www.Obaggo.com. If you ask retail store managers about the recycling of bags, they will almost always say, "we are in the grocery business, not the recycling business". This is the fundamental problem with retail store drop-off, and why Obaggo is working towards an alternative solution.