Baguio strikes food delivery recycling alliance

Hong Kong company will make recycling available to FoodPanda customers.

Hong Kong-based Baguio Green Group Ltd. says it has started cooperating with the online food delivery platform FoodPanda Hong Kong to launch a campaign to “expand the scope of recycling of single-use food takeaway plastics, help increase consumers’ awareness of recycling, and strengthen the group’s recycling channels.”

Baguio says it is using its iRecycle mobile app in partnership with FoodPanda to essentially create a rare consumer-to-business recyclables backhaul service using FoodPanda delivery personnel in Hong Kong. FoodPanda Hong Kong is a business unit of Berlin-based FoodPanda.

States Baguio, “When users participate in Baguio iRecycle’s free of charge door-to-door recycling service to recycle glass containers and/or plastic bottles (PET, HDPE) as well as plastic containers (polypropylene, or PP) accumulating a considerable amount of recyclables will enable participants to have a chance to win up to HK$300 ($38.70) in FoodPanda consumer vouchers.”

The two companies say the partnership supports the recycling of single-use food service plastics and helps Baguio by “developing an effective channel for collecting the respective [scrap] and expanding the scope of recycling to more plastic containers,” including PP.

The glass container recycling service is available only in select parts of Hong Kong.

Baguio launched the iRecycle mobile app in April 2020, it says “to facilitate recycling plastic bottles (No. 1 PET and No. 2 HDPE) and glass containers.” The “iDollars” earned can be redeemed as “various catering, shopping, entertainment, and health care discount coupons.”

The company says more than 50 recyclable bottle collection points have been created, and the iRecycle “Door-to-Door Recycling Service” was launched in October 2020. More than 17,000 plastic and glass bottles have been collected to date through the door-to-door service.

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