Hello! We're Olyns, your new favorite way to recycle. Our mission is to reduce plastic waste in oceans and landfills by making recycling convenient, fun, and rewarding. Olyns' recycling platform includes an eye-catching bottle collection Cube designed for high traffic indoor locations, and a mobile app to provide rewards, bottle deposit redemption, an environmental impact dashboard, and a leaderboard. Plastic waste is an urgent global problem: Every year 86 percent of the world’s plastic is not recycled, and ends up in landfills and oceans. We’ve engineered a profitable and effective shift in the consumer recycling paradigm with the Olyns Cube. We solve the revenue problem by embedding recycling infrastructure inside a retail media network, and we ensure scalability with a gig-economy model on the back-end. Since each Olyns Cube can collect about 2 metric tons of recycled material per year, we’ll help meet the annual 1B pound commercial demand for recycled plastic (rPET), and accelerate the shift to a circular plastics economy. Our new approach to recycling provides consumers with convenience and incentives, host locations with new revenue and data-driven customer insights, and advertisers with a sustainable retail media channel to connect with a young, affluent and growing audience: the climate-conscious consumer. We’re a start up based in Silicon Valley. We were founded in 2019, built our MVP in 2020, piloted our MVP at Safeway Milpitas in February 2021, raised a seed round in October 2021, and expanded our network of recycling Cubes to include Cupertino, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. In February 2022, our recycling Cubes will be featured at the Superbowl Experience in LA. In March 2022, we’ll launch V3 of our recycling Cube, and continue our expansion to Southern California, and beyond.