Community Waste Exchanges (and Green Community Websites)

• are simple to operate
• require about two hours a week of management time
• divert waste
• save money
• build awareness and commitment to a more sustainable lifestyle.

Contact Us for a projection of the results your community could achieve using one of our websites.

Benefits:

• One price includes everything you need except for your local management and marketing.
• The website is easily customized and configured to fit your circumstance.
• It will look like your own website. We can match the community waste exchange and green community website to your organization's existing website or identity as required.
• You can change the website as your conditions change. You can quickly and easily use the control panel to change the configuration.
• Photo Listings
• Sponsorship Panels. We provide places for logos and advertising. Your own or a sponsor's.
• The website works. We've built the system by listening to our clients who operate the systems. We pay attention to detail, so that some little glitch doesn't trip you up.
• Automatic matching of Available Items & Wanted Items when items are listed (or at any time afterwards).
• Tracking and Reporting of the amount of waste diverted, avoided waste management costs, greenhouse gas avoided.
• Tracking and Reporting on website activity including daily visits, # of account holders, length of visit, pages viewed, etc.
• Built in Green Directories:
• of Businesses (repair shops, recycling businesses),
• Charities (Salvation Army, Reuse Stores),
• Events (Yard Sales, eWaste Collections)
• A built in Reuse/Recycling Guide by Type of Material
• We assist you through the Support and Discussion Forum: We help you configure your exchange, and then provide support as required.
• Service: Browse the Endorsements section to see what our clients say about our service.
• Upgrades-included.

Please visit any of the websites and ask any of the local Site Administrators (listed on the Exchange Home Page) about our service or the system. Click here for a complete client list.

Pricing:

Our Online Residential Reuse Center annual subscription costs includes hosting, software, support, training, design services and all you need for to run the exchange for just $2500 per year. We also charge a one-time only first year Site set-up fee of $1000.

Discounts and Surcharges:

If the community you serve is larger than one million people we charge an additional $1000 per year for each one million people to cover the additional cost to provide the service due to server load. For example, if your community has 1.5 million people, we will charge $3500 per year. If you intend to serve 2.2 million, we will charge $4500 per year and so forth up to a maximum of $5500 per year.

If the community to be served is smaller than 100,000 people we discount the annual cost by $1000 to $1500 per year. If the community is smaller than 10,000 people we will discount the annual cost by $1500 to $1000 per year.

If you join with other communities under a common internet address and form a network of sites, we discount the price of each system on that network by 5% per system on the network to a maximum of 25%. For example, two sites on a network would result in the cost for each system being discounted by 5%.  (Because one system can't be a network.) Six sites on the network would result in each site's annual cost being discounted by 25%.

If you think your situation is unique, please contact us.  We're flexible in our approach and we may be able to work something out which suits you.