Recycle! App

Since January 15th 2014, Bebat, Fost Plus and Recupel have launched a new mobile application for smartphones and tablets. The app is called “Recycle!” and has to become the ultimate reference for every question concerning collection and recycling of garbage in Belgium.

Bebat is a non for profit association that collects empty batteries. Recupel is an organization that handles discarded electronic devices and Fast Plus is an organization that promotes and coordinates the recycling of packaging material. Those three enterprises cooperated and achieved this joint initiative “Recycle!”, only with one main goal: informing people unambiguously. Despite the fact that Belgium belongs to the world’s top recycling countries, there are still too many people doubting about the rules of collecting, sorting and recycling garbage. The new application wants to provide all the necessary help in this matter.

            

“Recycle!” has principally three main objectives: first of all it explains the user what and especially how to recycle and it gives him matching advice. It explains not only how to sort and recycle household waste, but also any other type of garbage such as hazardous waste, industrial waste, bio-medical waste and etcetera. Some types of garbage are collected at home, but you can also dispose of it at collection points or container parks. That’s why, secondly, the application shows the user his city’s bin collection days and it even offers the possibility to install reminders of these days. Lastly, the application adds information about container parks and collection points. It can display their opening hours and it reports the shortest way to get to those points as well.

This new useful application is available for android and for IOS as well. You can download the application on the App store for IOS and on the Google PlayStore for Android, all for free. Other and more initiatives are certainly necessary, but this app is already one measure in our fight for a cleaner environment.

What do you think about this subject: do you think this application will be efficient? Would you use an application as "Recycle!" and do you think it wil make any difference? 

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Klara, Klaas & Sarah