It is a common dilemma for all metro users: what to do with used tickets? In San Francisco, where an electronic credit ticket is used to access the Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) District, they have seen fit to harvest them to plant trees. And not only.
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It is a common dilemma for all subway users: what to do with used tickets? In San Francisco, where to access the Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) District you are using an e-ticket on credit, they thought well of collect them to plant trees. And not only.
To move around the famous Bay, the tariffe BART they vary according to distance and tickets can be worth inclusive between $ 1,75 and $ 40. So every passenger can buy a ticket and use it for several trips. The correct fare is automatically deducted from the ticket, which is returned if not fully used. This means that many low-credit tickets go unused.
Now, however, a new program from the recycling company Recology has offered to collect them to deliver them to two NGOs: the Friends of the Urban Forest Foundation, which plants trees in San Francisco and takes care of those already present in the city, with the aim of promoting greenery also in the urban environment, and the San Francisco Food Bank, which provides food for homeless shelters, senior centers and soup kitchens.
The idea of bring old tickets to life and of David Nanney, a Recology employee in charge of sorting the San Francisco plant. Made of thin plastic e similar to a credit card, tickets consist of a mix of materials not all recyclable at the end of the sorting chain. So, trying to find a second life for them, Nanney he proposed to his collaborators to start collecting them and in just four months he managed to collect well $ 1.400 from the remaining credit on unused tickets, then donated to San Francisco Food Bank and Friends of the Urban Forest. Based on the success of this pilot program, Recology has decided to expand the initiative to allow all residents to recycle their old BART.
"Recycling becomes truly amazing when it can turn unused tickets into trees for San Francisco," said executive director Friends of the Urban Forest . “The Food Bank can turn every dollar donated into $ 6 worth of food. Donations from tickets can quickly turn into much-needed meals for the tables of needy families, ”explains the manager instead Marketing e Communications della Food Bank Lisa Mizokami.
Roberta Ragni
