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Incentivizing Sustainability

Consumers are enticed to live sustainably with tangible rewards

Implications - By gamifying and rewarding sustainable practices, brands and organizations can initiate positive behaviors in consumers and in turn position themselves as catalysts for social change. This market-based approach to the promotion of sustainability is a clever way to equate a single individual's actions to a tangible lesson around the nature of consumption.
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Featured Examples

Can Currency Campaigns
Can Currency Campaigns
McDonald's Stockholm Lets Youth Trade in Bags of Recycled Cans For Burgers
In an eco-conscious marketing move, McDonald’s Stockholm is letting you pay for food with recycled cans. The interactive initiative was conceived and designed by advertising agency DDB... MORE
Musical Ashtray Installations
Musical Ashtray Installations
Fumo's Behavioral Design Hopes to Cease Cigarette Butts Litter
This smoking pole is a creative way to deal with cigarette butts litter. Created by design firm ioglo, Fumo is an interactive installation that uses behavioral design to reward smokers who use the... MORE
Gamified Garbage Disposals
Gamified Garbage Disposals
This Augmented Reality Trash Can Turns Garbage Into Multimedia Tetris
If you are a fan of old school computer games and like to feel rewarded when you throw away your garbage, you will seriously dig this augmented reality trash can. The TetraBIN offers positive... MORE
Pet-Feeding Recycling Bins
Pet-Feeding Recycling Bins
This Unique Pet Feeder Trades Recycled Items for Pet Food
This unique pet feeder by Pugedon is designed to tackle two problems at once, addressing the number of stray animals that run rampant on the streets of Istanbul, as well as the need to increase... MORE
Bottle Deposit Train Tickets
Bottle Deposit Train Tickets
Plastic Recycling Could Get You a Free Transit Pass in Beijing
If you are looking for a way to encourage plastic recycling, take a leaf out of Beijing’s notebook. The Chinese city recently instituted an incentive where people could pay for their train... MORE
play_circle_filled Eco Vending Machines
Eco Vending Machines
Volkswagen's Think Blue Vending Machine Accepts Old Batteries As Payment
As part of an initiative called Think Blue, car company Volkswagen wanted to find ways to make it easier for people to recycle. One of its inventive solutions came in the form of a vending machine,... MORE

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