This show is sponsored by Ridwell, helping you give new life to everyday items that usually

end up in the trash. Ridwell collects things like grocery bags, bubble mailers, batteries,

and old clothing, then finds responsible ways to recycle or reuse them. You can schedule easy

pickups at your door or use their mail-in kits from anywhere

nationwide. Ridwell, make sure everything you send actually gets reused or recycled, not shipped

overseas or thrown away. They work with more than 225 recycling and reuse partners across the

U.S. and Canada, and 97% of what they collect stays out of the landfill.

You can even see exactly where it all goes on their website. For real, after pickup or drop off,

you get a message showing where your stuff went and what it became. For example, your grocery

bags and plastic wrap might get turned into someone's new deck,

while snack wrappers and coffee bags are made into drainage for a park.

Okay, all right, Ridwell just launched where I live.

And I'm actually, I'm totally obsessed.

It's the first time I felt genuinely good about dealing with all the

packaging that shows up from my various online shopping excursions, you know, like the bubble

mailers and the grocery. Okay, I know that we've all, I know we all have had, or possibly

still have a cupboard somewhere in our home, this is just a cupboard

full of bags. Like, it's not great. We don't need to live this way. It's honestly,

this is refreshing to have one small thing in life that I can control. Less waste, less guilt.

And for once, a little proof that my good

intentions aren't going straight to the landfill. All right, if you're ready to stop feeling

personally victimized by plastic packaging, join the movement that's actually making recycling work.

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