Isn't this a scam? How does Clear Drop make money, and why should I pay to recycle?Updated 10 days ago

We understand the skepticism, but that's genuinely not how this works. Soft plastic has extremely low resale value and is expensive to recycle — which is exactly why most of it gets landfilled or burned. We don't get paid for your plastic, and we don't sell it overseas.

Your subscription funds the real costs: prepaid return mailers, transportation, and processing at verified U.S. facilities, and we subsidize a large part of the logistics ourselves. We're not profiting from the plastic — we're funding the infrastructure that keeps it out of landfill and ensures it actually gets recycled. As we scale, our goal is to make the system more accessible over time.