What rewards can you get from greenopolis

What if you lived on an island home and all your resources had to come from your island and your waste had to stay there? How would you live, what would you do differently? Jump to navigation. Search form. Thursday, June 9, - am. Greenopolis Blog by Joe Laur. In Oceanopolis you get to live on your very own tropical island-a dream for most people. While on your Island your challenge is to keep your island, the surrounding ocean and other islands clean and green through capturing and up-cycling plastic and glass bottles, steel and aluminum cans and cardboard boxes.

You can also rescue threatened sea animals as you restore their ocean habitat. We collected a bunch of recyclables over the course of our vacation and I discovered this machine when we went on the Ripley's Ghost Tour which is truly creepy and you should go if you get the chance.

Anyway, recycling through this method has been like a game — well, actually, it is a game. Every time I recycle a can or bottle in the Dream Machine I get rewarded with 5 points — right now I've got points. That's not all from recycling, mind you — through RecycleBank and Greenopolis, I've also played a recycling game, pledged to take shorter showers i've gone on rants about this before — see here and I've used their iphone app, RecyclePix. With Recylepix I take a picture of a can or bottle that I'm considering recycling and then post it on the Greenopolis website, where it gets sucked into a vortex of environmental action, never to be seen again.

I guess. I don't know, because I haven't seen any of the pictures I've posted — I get points for posting the pictures and then extra points for putting a caption on the photo, and then extra points if I post it on Facebook or Twitter. And D. With those bins, instead of offering rewards to recyclers, Pepsi will donate cash to the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities , a program offering business training to disabled veterans.

The amount of cash donated will depend on how many bottles and cans are collected. They undoubtedly will, if for no other reason than having new recycling receptacles makes it easier to refrain from dumping cans in the trash. And offering prizes sure should help. Kiosks are available at other locations around the country, however.

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