How Does the BottleBank® Blue Bag Program Work?
BottleBank® is a new way to redeem CRV beverage bottle and cans.
The user of this system becomes a member of the BottleBank® CRV redemption system.
The user signs up via either a smart phone or website or at the BottleBank® CRV mobile site.
The member fills a BottleBank® blue bag with their bottles and cans.
• The bottle and cans need to be whole and empty, so the UPC (bar) code can be read.
• Do not crush or flatten the bottles or cans. Make sure they are completely empty.
• The Blue Bag is for use only at the BottleBank® drop sites.
The bag has a capacity of approximately 70 whole, empty bottle and cans (on the average). OR 20 lbs. (30 12 oz glass beer bottles weigh about 20 lbs.)
Each Blue Bag has a unique bar that needs to be scanned at the drop site.
The SF Conservation Corp crew member will scan each bag, paired with your account, and load onto the BottleBank® Mobile.
One bag per each scan. You are allowed to drop up to 15 blue bags per day.
This logs in the transaction to the user’s account.
The trailer full of bags goes to a processing facility where each bag is logged-in again, and sorted
by UPC code, and credited to the user’s account within 72 hours of the initial bag drop.
Each accounting is logged: the initial bag drop, the receiving of the bag at the sorting facility, and the specific UPC code scan that “cancels” (gives back the CRV) for each bottle or can.