Day To Day Earners: Bower The Recycling App

I just want to give a quick shout out to the app Bower. They reward you with points for scanning your recycling before you drop it in your recycling bin. That's it, no major inconvenience, you don't need to take it to a specific public recycling centre, you can simply use your own bins like you would have been doing anyway.

I've only been using this app for a few days but it's going well so far, it appears that 1 recycled item is worth 1 point. You can exchange your points for cash where the rate improves as you go for higher rewards (e.g, £0.4 for 40 points, or £0.8 for 75 points) or you can use them for other specific rewards, like a 2 month subscription to Readly for 10 points or 45 days worth of audiobooks for 10 points.

It's not an app that is going to make you rich overnight, but if you're recycling anyway just taking a couple of seconds each day to scan the barcodes before you drop them into your bin you'll soon see your points add up. 

The only downside i've experienced with this app so far is you can't scan multipack items, e.g a multipack can of pop as they don't have individual barcodes and there is no way to manually input the item. 

They even have fun little trophies, a streak counter and challenges to complete too, just to add a little excitement to the boring day to day task of recycling. It even gives you a break down of how much CO2 you've saved by recycling.

As above, here is my referral link for anyone who wants to try this lovely little app out and see how much CO2 they're saving while they save up some points!