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Depending on how you want to use the app, you can follow the two examples below to understand how to recycle with Bower.

Scanning at home

1. Scan your packages at home and recycle or place all scanned items in the bag you want to transport them in.
2. Find your nearest recycling location or register your own in the app. 
3. Go to the recycling location, open the app and verify that you are close to a recycling bin.
4. Get rewarded with Coins directly in the app. Additionally, you will see how much carbon dioxide you are saving our planet with your deposit.

Scanning at the recycling Location

1. Find your nearest recycling location or register your own in the app.3.
3. Go to the closest bins, open the app and verify that you are near a recycling location.
3. Scan the barcode on your packaging. Then dispose of all items in the correct container.
4. Get rewarded with Coins directly in the app. Additionally, you will see how much carbon dioxide you are saving our planet with your deposit.

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If you have a recycling location closer to you than those shown on the card in the app, you can easily add it by clicking on "Add your bins" in the scanning view.

No worries, you can! Just add your curb-side recycling to the app by clicking on "Add your bins" in the scanning view.

You can deposit at all approved recycling locations across the country. The majority of all public bins can be found in the map function of the Bower app. Suppose you have a private recycling location (e.g. a community facility next to or in an apartment building) not already listed. In that case, you can easily add it to the app and start recycling there.

Check that you have allowed Bower to access your location information in your phone settings. If that doesn't resolve the issue, please contact Bowers customer service.

All products with a barcode and some without the barcode (see full list in app) can be scanned. No matter if it's a ketchup bottle, juice container, bread bag, caviar tube, soap packet, egg carton... you name it, everything with a barcode!

No, the price of the goods you deposit is the same as usual.

Nope, you can deposit consumer packaging made of all types of materials (with a barcode). For example, soft plastic bread bags, paper and hard plastic juice cartons, metal caviar tubes and metal cans of tomato sauce.

If you have two or more packages of the same product, you only get Coins for one item. This limitation exists because packages of the same product have identical barcodes. Therefore our scanner cannot detect if you have multiple packages or scan the same package multiple times. 
If you want to get Coins for all packs of the same product, you will need to wait one day to scan the next. The amount of carbon emissions you save, however, is tracked for all scanned items - with or without Coins.