Olyns

Olyns Inc

About this app

Olyns is Rethinking Recycling. Our growing network of bottle boxes makes it easy and fun to recycle beverage containers for cash.

Here’s how it works:

1. Download the Olyns App.
2. Create an account and save Olyns to your e-wallet.
3. Find the nearest Olyns bottle box on our map.
4. Hold your phone above the Recycle Ring on the Olyns bottle box for touchless check in.
5. Deposit your empty CRV containers into the Olyns bottle box.
6. Earn cash for every eligible container.
7. Cash Out your balance anytime through PayPal.
8. Celebrate - you just did your part to help the planet

Ratings and reviews

app is basic. cannot search by zip and sort by distance or availability. finding machines with capacity takes too long. glass is often at capacity, machines seem to be rarely or inadequately serviced. also not enough machines to meet demand. machines slow to recognize item type adding to time needed for redemption. nice idea though. hope they figure it out update: still bad. The service is un-usable. In 6 visits to Olyns machines, I've made $2.45 update 6/12/26 still sucks. barely usable.

If I could give 0 stars I would. App is not great, machines are often either closed (after 8 pm!) or on holiday (why does a machine need a holiday?), or out of service, or completely full. Glass is always full. One time we were able to recycle 4 glass bottles and then that was it. Other than that one time, we have never gotten glass to work. App makes you install Google wallet and makes you link to PayPal. After all that, cash out is not working! Ugh. Just one annoyance after another.

The Olyns app has been frustrating as an Android user—the app card has never worked. Machines are often full or out of service, and when they finally work, they sometimes break down after waiting in line, wasting an hour of my time. On top of that, support is very slow to respond. While the concept is great, the execution and customer service need serious improvement.