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 80 empty bottle and cans (on the average).
Each Blue Bag has a unique bar that needs to be scanned at the drop site.
The scanning opens a secure door on the mobile trailer, and the bag is dropped through the opening door.
One bag per each scan. You are allowed to drop up to 5 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.