Preserve

If you don’t live near one of our Gimme 5 retail locations, you can Gimme 5 by mail. To help make this program a win for the environment, it is important that you send your plastics back to us via ground shipping (as opposed to air). Reuse a box if you can! Make sure to include your name and email address on the shipping label or inside the box so we can thank you for your good work. Unfortunately, we are unable to pay for you to mail your #5s to us. We know this is a bummer and are working to make our retail program available in more communities so you can drop your #5s off for free.

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If you have any questions about the Gimme 5 program or have a large shipment you’d like to send, call us at 888-354-7296.

Before starting the mail-back Gimme 5 program, we wanted to make sure that we were taking a positive step for the environment. We produced a single factor Life Cycle Assessment to analyze the impact of the Gimme 5 program. The results showed the benefits of keeping #5 plastics out of landfills and remaking them into new products outweigh the environmental impacts of shipping them back to us. We hope that the success of our program will help convince local recyclers of the value of taking #5 plastics back in more communities across the US.

Stay posted on the impact you’re making by joining Gimme 5.