Company’s annual Halloween waste reduction campaign provides
candy wrapper recycling boxes to schools, independent businesses,
and community organizations around the country
Rubicon Technologies, Inc. (“Rubicon” or the “Company”) (NYSE:
RBT), a leading digital marketplace for waste and recycling and
provider of innovative software-based products for businesses and
governments worldwide, today announced the launch of its annual
Trick or Trash™ campaign, a program designed to help reduce the
waste that accumulates every year around Halloween.
Now in its fourth year, Trick or Trash provides easy-to-assemble
mail-back recycling boxes to schools, independent businesses, and
community organizations, which can be filled with discarded candy
wrappers.
It is estimated that each year 600 million pounds of candy are
consumed in the United States during the Halloween season, and
research from the National Retail Federation shows that in 2021, $3
billion dollars was spent on candy during the holiday, up from $2.4
billion the year before. The materials used for candy packaging are
notoriously difficult to recycle with the vast majority ending up
in landfills, as well as America’s waterways and oceans. To address
this challenge, Rubicon is once again enlisting the help of
teachers, business owners, and community leaders around the country
in collecting candy wrappers and inspiring communities to
recycle.
Trick or Trash participants deposit their wrappers into custom
collection boxes and, once full, simply return the boxes for
processing using a prepaid shipping label for carbon-neutral
shipping. Rubicon is giving free boxes to every participating
school, independent business, and community organization while
supplies last.
“Rubicon’s mission is to end waste, and our annual Trick or
Trash Halloween recycling campaign is the purest example of this
mission in action,” said Nate Morris, Chairman and CEO of Rubicon.
“From the thousands of Halloween candy wrapper collection boxes
that we send out to schools and businesses all across the country,
to the campaign’s core educational component that will once again
be taught in hundreds of schools and universities, I look forward
to Trick or Trash taking a central role in teaching future
generations about the importance of protecting our
environment.”
This year’s program sees the return of The National Wildlife
Federation (NWF) as the official education partner of Trick or
Trash. To set educators up for success in teaching about recycling,
Rubicon and NWF has created a list of downloadable lesson plans
designed for students ages K-12. These lesson plans introduce
students to new terms, phrases, and ideas about the circular
economy that can be integrated into any curriculum, and provide
fun, interactive, critical thinking exercises with the goal of
helping children understand recycling and why it is important to
the health of our planet. Lists of recommended reading materials
have also been compiled for colleges and universities.
“The National Wildlife Federation seeks to educate and inspire
the next generation of environmental and wildlife champions in all
that we do,” said Kim Martinez, Vice President of Education and
Engagement at the National Wildlife Federation. “This feeds
directly into our support of Rubicon’s Trick or Trash campaign for
the third year in a row to help show millions of people how small
steps, like reducing waste and increasing recycling rates, can help
recover wildlife populations and restore natural resources to
ensure healthier communities for people and save habitat for
imperiled wildlife.”
This year’s program also sees the return of Cox Communications,
a leading cable television and telecommunications provider and
longtime Rubicon partner, as the official media sponsor of Trick or
Trash. The company has pledged to place hundreds of Trick or Trash
boxes in community organizations, YMCAs, Boys and Girls Clubs, and
local schools.
“As the parent company of Cox Communications, Cox Enterprises is
a global leader in sustainability because we’re always looking for
innovative ways to help our planet,” said Ira Pearl, Vice President
of Environmental Sustainability for Cox Enterprises. “The Trick or
Trash program is an excellent way of showing how that doesn’t
always require expensive technology. Encouraging people to take
action and properly recycle Halloween candy wrappers can make a
real and lasting difference for our communities.”
Rubicon is also excited to introduce three new partners to this
year’s campaign: Trick or Trash’s official entrepreneurship
partner, Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass; the official
nonprofit partner, Kentucky FFA (Future Farmers of America)
Foundation; and the official Kentucky partner, Shaping Our
Appalachian Region (SOAR).
Trick or Trash 2022 follows the campaign’s immense success in
2021. When first launched in 2019, it reached more than 470 schools
in 49 U.S. states. The 2020 campaign reached more than 730 schools
and small businesses in all 50 U.S. states. The 2021 campaign
reached significantly more individuals, with almost 2,000
collection boxes being sent to more than 1,250 schools, independent
businesses, and community organizations.
To order a free Trick or Trash for your school, independent
business, or community organization, click one of the links above
and follow the prompts. Trick or Trash boxes can also be purchased
for personal use on the RUBICONMarketplace™.
About Rubicon
Rubicon Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: RBT) is a digital marketplace
for waste and recycling, and provider of innovative software-based
products for businesses and governments worldwide. Striving to
create a new industry standard by using technology to drive
environmental innovation, the company helps turn businesses into
more sustainable enterprises, and neighborhoods into greener and
smarter places to live and work. Rubicon’s mission is to end waste.
It helps its partners find economic value in their waste streams
and confidently execute on their sustainability goals. To learn
more, visit www.Rubicon.com.
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