Betterbin (Accelerator)

Company Description: Betterbin is a social enterprise tech startup. Our mobile platform monetizes increased consumer recycling accuracy to benefit the financial viability of the material recovery industry. The Betterbin app incentivizes consumers to scan the UPC barcode of any product or text search for any brand-specific product or material to get instant, local how-to-recycle answers. More than just an app, Betterbin is building a one-of-a-kind data hub for online retailers that will provide the retailers with the data they need to tell consumers exactly how to properly dispose of purchased product packaging based on where the consumer lives. Betterbin's product and location-specific decontamination solution is the first of its kind in the U.S. to tackle the two biggest barriers to consumer recycling accuracy: (1) Acceptable recovered materials vary from one community to the next; and (2) Consumer goods packaging is increasingly complex.