Recycle Your Appliances

We pick up your old refrigerator or freezer and you get $50!

Efficiency Smart™ can help lower your monthly energy bills — and pay you to do it! Right now, you can receive $50 to recycle your old, working refrigerator or freezer. Plus, we’ll even pick it up, free of charge, and properly recycle it. While that old appliance in the basement or garage may provide additional storage, it’s not worth the additional cost on your electric bill. By recycling your old appliance, you can save up to $200 a year on your energy bill. We make it easy for you to save the environment and your wallet.

How to Participate

• You must be a residential electric customer of a participating community. To see if your utility is a participant in the Appliance Recycling Initiative click here.
• You must own the refrigerator or freezer and it must be 10-30 cubic feet.
• Appliance must be in working (cooling) order.
• Appliance must be used as a secondary unit on a full-time basis; no primary appliances will be accepted.
• Appliance must be plugged in the night prior to pickup.
• Your appliance will be picked up, at no charge, from the address listed on your billing account.
• The $50 reward will be mailed to you within four weeks after pickup of your refrigerator or freezer.
• Limit of 3 appliances per household.

• Ohio

• Pennsylvania

• Michigan

Select your state above or call to schedule:

1-877-341-2192

7:00 am to 8:00 pm - M-F EST
10:00 am to 8:00 pm - Sat EST

Inside Your Refrigerator

With Efficiency Smart’s Appliance Recycling Initiative, over 95 percent of the appliance is properly destroyed and recycled, preventing it from entering a landfill.

Save Energy and Money

Each old refrigerator or freezer requires an average of 700 to 1,600 kilowatt-hours (kwh) to operate annually. If a spare refrigerator used in a basement or garage is removed and not replaced, energy savings can amount to 1,200 kWh/year, with an average $200 reduction in annual electricity charges.*

*Actual energy and cost savings will vary by equipment model and region. These estimates are conservative and based on national averages (www.energystar.gov).