Recycling Programs + Processors
- - - Recycling Programs + Processors
    - Explore available grants, technical assistance, and educational support available to recycling programs and facilities to build a better recycling system.
  - - Community Recycling Program Tool
    - Interactive tool and resource designed for local and community recycling leaders to connect, optimize, and propel recycling programs forward.
    - Grants
    - Apply for grants available to U.S. communities and recycling facilities to improve access, collections, operations, and processing.
    - Single-Family Recycling
    - From grants to step-by-step guidance, The Recycling Partnership has the resources needed to implement and improve single-family recycling programs.
    - Multifamily Recycling
    - Our Multifamily Recycling Guide and Toolkit contains case studies, best practices, and customizable templates for communities and multifamily properties.
  - - Community Recycling Best Practices
    - Explore the importance of community recycling programs. This page discusses how to transform underperforming recycling programs and best practices for various community circumstances.
  - - Contamination Toolkits
    - Let's fight contamination together. Access our proven kits and campaigns to dramatically improve your contamination rates.
    - U.S. Residential MRF Map
    - The residential materials recovery facilities (MRF) map displays recycling facilities across the U.S.
    - MRF Contracts Guide
    - Created with community programs and materials recovery facilities in mind, this guide offers best management practices for both parties to achieve long-term success.
Recycling Behavior
- - - Recycling Behavior
    - Through research and pilot projects on what works and what doesn’t, learn what steps your community can take to improve residential recycling.
  - - Behavior Center
    - The Recycling Partnership's Center for Sustainable Behavior & Impact is driving improvement in recycling behavior and boosting confidence in U.S. recycling.
    - Knowledge Report
    - The Recycling Partnership's Center for Sustainable Behavior & Impact comprehensive report to address the intention-action gap and accelerate recycling best practices.
  - - Recycling Confidence Index
    - The Recycling Confidence Index tracks, quantifies, and qualifies recycling confidence over time and identifies the factors influencing trust.
Design for Circularity
- - - Design for Circularity
    - The Recycling Partnership's circularity solutions bring the necessary clarity to successfully advance the circular economy for packaging.
  - - Circular Packaging Assessment
    - This Assessment provides step-by-step instructions to help companies understand packaging recyclability and pursue circularity.
    - Dynamic Labels
    - Recycle Check offers an interactive package-specific solution providing localized recycling information to consumers across the U.S.
  - - Plastic Packaging Strategy Tool
    - Plastic IQ is a free, data-driven digital tool helping U.S. companies design sustainable plastic packaging.
    - Circular Packaging 101
    - Learn how brands, retailers, and manufacturers can advance circular packaging.
Policy
- - - Policy
    - The Recycling Partnership is working across all levels of government in the U.S. to advance a circular economy by building a better recycling system.
  - - Recycling Policy Accelerator
    - The Recycling Partnership Policy Accelerator is working to develop smart policy solutions to unlock the environmental and economic benefits of recycling.
    - Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) 101
    - EPR shifts the financial responsibility of managing a material throughout its entire lifecycle to the brands that produce the material.
    - Increasing Recycling Rates with EPR
    - The Recycling Partnership's analysis shows that U.S. states could expect significant increases in recycling rates with the introduction of EPR law.
  - - State EPR Toolkit
    - Create customized collateral to support education and advocacy around smart, well-designed extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies in your state.
    - Policy Implementation
    - Get step-by-step guidance to prepare for recycling policy implentation in states across the U.S.
Material Advancement
- - - Material Advancement
    - Material coalition-focused work has the potential to unlock supply through real systems change by leveraging the power of many across the value chain.
  - - Film and Flexibles Recycling Coalition
    - The Film and Flexibles Coalition is working collaboratively to identify and scale recovery methods for film and flexible packaging.
    - PET Recycling Coalition
    - The PET Recycling Coalition convenes a robust group of stakeholders driving improvements that transform the plastic #1 recycling landscape.
  - - Polypropylene Recycling Coalition
    - The Polypropylene Recycling Coalition is working collaboratively to improve and increase the recycling of #5 plastic packaging.
Resources
- - - Resources
    - Discover the latest recycling resources, including community and facility grants, research reports, recycling data, and updates.
  - - The State of Recycling Report
    - Data from this report shows where the gaps are greatest, and where policy, investment, and action will have the largest impact.
    - Community Recycling Program Tool
    - Interactive tool and resource designed for local and community recycling leaders to connect, optimize, and propel recycling programs forward.
  - - What Can I Recycle?
    - Find out what is accepted for recycling in your community.
    - Blog
    - Read the latest blog posts from The Recycling Partnership.
    - Grants
    - Apply for grants available to U.S. communities and recycling facilities to improve access, collections, operations, and processing.
  - - Newsroom
    - See the latest media releases from The Recycling Partnership.
    - Data
    - Unlock the data to advance recycling and a circular economy in the U.S.
    - Reports
    - Download the latest research reports about recycling.
About
- - - About
    - The Recycling Partnership mobilizes the people, data, and solutions across the value chain to reduce waste and our impact on the environment while also unlocking economic benefits.
  - - Our Staff
    - Meet the nation's leading recycling and circular economy subject-matter experts.
    - Careers at The Recycling Partnership
    - Join our team at The Recycling Partnership. Search and apply for available positions.
    - Board of Directors
    - Our Board is comprised of industry leading sustainability and recycling advocacy experts from leading companies across the value chain who are committed to transforming U.S. recycling.
  - - Core Values
    - We at The Partnership take our work seriously and we invite others to join us in embracing our core values.
    - Contact Us
    - Together we can solve for circularity. Let’s connect to advance a circular economy by building a better recycling system.
    - Funding Partners
    - More than 80 companies are working to invest in the system, make their packaging more circular, and meet climate and sustainability goals.
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