Recycling Initiative
Weis Markets Launches the PepsiCo Dream Machine Recycling Initiative
Weis Markets is excited to now offer the PepsiCo Dream Machine as a convenient and rewarding way for you to recycle!
When you recycle your plastic bottles and aluminum cans in a Dream Machine, you can:
- Earn personal reward points, redeemable for local discounts;
- Support post-9/11 U.S. veterans with disabilities; and
- Help make our planet a little greener.
Many people are shocked to learn that only one-third of the plastic beverage containers in the United States are recycled – that means that two-thirds often wind up as litter, on our roads and in our oceans and waterways. But, if every household in the U.S. recycled just three more plastic bottles a month, we could divert more than 23 million pounds of plastic from our landfills and increase the amount of recycled plastic available to incorporate into new bottles, which would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save energy, reduce air and water pollution and conserve our planet’s natural resources.
The Dream Machine recycling initiative – created by PepsiCo in collaboration with Waste Management, Keep America Beautiful and Greenopolis – is introducing thousands of recycling kiosks and bins at high-traffic, public locations around the country to help increase the U.S. beverage container recycling rate by giving Americans convenient access to recycling receptacles. A total of 28 Dream Machine kiosks are now located at various Weis Markets locations in the greater Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area for on-the-go recycling. In addition to being kind to the environment, each time you recycle in a Dream Machine you are taking action to help support a disabled U.S. veteran – the more bottles and cans people recycle in a Dream Machine, the more support PepsiCo will provide to the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, a national program offering post-9/11 disabled U.S. veterans free education and experiential training in entrepreneurship and small business management. On top of that, the intelligent kiosks are computerized receptacles that include a personal reward system, operated by Greenopolis, that allows consumers to earn points for every bottle and can they recycle, redeemable for local discounts and coupons on entertainment, dining and travel at Greenopolis.com.
So, please visit a Dream Machine located at Weis Markets and join us in making this exciting recycling initiative a success!
For more information on the program, visit Facebook.com/DreamMachine.
To find Dream Machine locations across North America, visit www.DreamMachineLocator.com.
