https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/07/15/report-pilot-mobile-recycling-programs-arent-fix-for-californias-crumbling-system/

Last spring, Irvine partnered with a startup called Recycling from Home. The company, which was created with help from local recycling phenom Ryan Hickman, got one of five $1 million grants from the state to launch a pilot program that lets residents schedule having bags of recyclable materials, like bottles and cans, picked up from their homes. Residents then get all the nickels and dimes from the California Redemption Value (CRV) of those recyclables deposited into accounts they’ve set up, which they can cash in or donate with 10% taken out to pay for the service.

The goal of Irvine’s program – and other four state-funded mobile recycling projects launched in Culver City, San Francisco, San Mateo and Sonoma County – is to boost sinking recycling rates by making it more convenient for residents who no longer have access to local recycling centers, after hundreds of such centers have shut down across the state. These pilot programs also give residents a financial incentive to recycle that’s missing if they let their waste hauler collect those bottles and cans at the curb.