Economy
A Mobile Guide to the Nearest Recycling Bin
Drop-off locations are tougher to find than they should be, but this app wants to change that.
In the summer of 2014, Kathryn Hurley, the in-house counsel for a tech company, was walking down a street in New York. It was hot; she’d just finished drinking from a plastic water bottle and was casting around for a place to recycle it.
It took her 15 blocks to find one.