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It’s time to develop a circular economy for packaging in the U.S. We’re launching several new initiatives to start building the Bridge to Circularity, including Recycling 2.0 – an opportunity for all stakeholders to collaborate to develop the recycling system of the future.

Falls Church, Va. (May 13, 2021) – The public is calling for more things to be recyclable but the path to cement that future remains unclear.  That is why The Recycling Partnership has convened the Pathway to Circularity Industry Council (the Circularity Council) to assess what actions must take [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: New “Bridge to Circularity” Report Calls for $500 Million by 2025 to Transform the U.S. Recycling System Report Emphasizes Need for Creating New Pathways to Recyclability, Unlocking Post-Consumer Material Supply, and Crafting Bold, Transformative Policies Supported by Cut[...]

The Recycling Partnership opens its Recyclability Framework for public comment   Falls Church, Va. (August 11, 2021) – The Recycling Partnership announced today that it will open its Pathway to Circularity Recyclability Framework for public comment, a first of its kind opportunity for the ent[...]

Widespread feedback signals importance of Framework and need for transparent, cohesive guidelines  FALLS CHURCH, Va. (Dec. 14, 2021) – The Recycling Partnership today published responses to public comments on its Pathway to Circularity Recyclability Framework. A-first-of-its-kind opportunity for [...]

Colgate-Palmolive becomes first company to fund navigation of five‑step gated recyclability process BENTONVILLE, ARK. (Nov. 6, 2019) – The Recycling Partnership officially launched its new Pathway to Recyclability initiative to help packaging suppliers outline, address, and successfully navigate[...]

The ultimate fate of recycling rests in the hands of a broad set of stakeholders who must all take action to support the transition to a circular economy FALLS CHURCH, Va., (Feb. 13, 2020) – For curbside recycling in the United States to deliver its enormous potential economic and environmental be[...]

Grant Awarded by The Recycling Partnership in Partnership with Can Manufacturers Institute Enables Can Capture Equipment that will Result in 4 Million More Aluminum Beverage Cans Recycled Annually WASHINGTON, DC (December 14, 2021) – A recycling facility in Kilgore, TX, received a critical upgrade[...]

Created by The Recycling Partnership and SYSTEMIQ, with support from Walmart, Plastic IQ leverages industry best practices and data so companies can build action plans and achieve circularity goals FALLS CHURCH, Va. (May 5, 2021) – The Recycling Partnership and SYSTEMIQ today launched Plastic IQ,[...]

Grantees can now send customized education materials directly to their residents to improve recycling programs at no cost to them Small communities in Michigan have a new resource to help them educate households about how and what to recycle. The Michigan Small Community Education Grant Program, an [...]

2020 Impact Report Tells Story of the National Nonprofit Catalyzing Change to Move the U.S. Toward a Circular Economy

By Keefe Harrison (first published on LinkedIn) As I head into the 2020 Plastics Recycling Conference, the pressing need to protect our environment from plastic waste by activating a truly circular economy is top of mind.  This is an important point in time to pivot our society’s current make-to-[...]

“The Recycling Partnership believes that producers should play a prominent role in bringing the critically needed capital necessary to level up a struggling U.S. residential recycling system through a shared producer responsibility model. As the Blueprint points out, we’re at a critical poin[...]

By Keefe Harrison When the world moves through this terrible coronavirus pandemic, the economy is going to need help.  That’s why The Recycling Partnership is working hard, every day, to ensure that the economy that rebounds is a circular one that serves people and the planet. I grew up in a fami[...]

America Recycles Week release of free Social Media Kit v.3 and DIYSigns to empower communities to educate residents on how to recycle more, better FALLS CHURCH, Va. (Nov. 12, 2019) – Residents putting trash in the recycling costs the U.S. recycling system more than $300 million each year. While s[...]

Polypropylene Recycling Coalition awards nearly $2 million in grants that will impact four million people nationally FALLS CHURCH, Va. (December 8, 2020) – The Recycling Partnership today announced nearly $2 million in catalytic grants to advance polypropylene recycling in the U.S. through its Po[...]

Actions underway in cities to invest nearly a half-billion dollars on modernized recycling infrastructure and consumer education that will reduce the plastic footprint of America’s beverage companies by increasing the amount of plastic bottles that are collected and remade into new ones WASHINGTON[...]

In less than one year, The Recycling Partnership’s Polypropylene Recycling Coalition awarded grants to 13 recycling facilities to increase recycling access by nearly 6%. FALLS CHURCH, Va. (Aug.24, 2021) – The Recycling Partnership today announced a third round of grant funding through its Polypr[...]

By Ben Dixon, Partner, SYSTEMIQ & Keefe Harrison, CEO, The Recycling Partnership The challenge of plastic waste is too big to ignore and too difficult to solve alone. Good work to collectively reduce the use of virgin plastic and build recycling solutions for more types of plastics is underway. [...]

By Dylan de Thomas, Vice President of External Affairs The California Statewide Commission on Curbside Recycling and Market Development recently published a report to CalRecycle with recommendations regarding a Statewide Standardized Acceptance List of Recyclable Materials (CA Statewide Recyclable L[...]

Leading companies from across the value chain take action to enhance polypropylene circularity with first Request for Proposals FALLS CHURCH, Va. (July 8, 2020) – The Recycling Partnership is pleased to announce today the launch of its Polypropylene Recycling Coalition, an industry collaboration t[...]

The following article was originally published by online industry mag WasteDive as part of their annual DIVE AWARDS series. Read the full article and other DIVE awardee briefs here. Biggest assets: 31 funding partners that include some of the largest corporations and trade associations in the recycl[...]

By Keefe Harrison, CEO Partnership is part of our name for a reason. From the start, The Recycling Partnership has believed that public-private partnerships are critical to our mission—and to our mutual success in building a resilient and responsive recycling system.  This approach is at the hear[...]

60+ Brands, Retailers, Government Agencies, and NGOs Collaborate to Advance All Plastic Packaging to become Reusable, Recyclable, or Compostable by 2025 Falls Church, Va., (August 25, 2020) – Today, the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative led by The Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund (W[...]

The City of Norcross and The Recycling Partnership launch citywide cart-tagging campaign to dramatically improve curbside residential recycling, part of a $15,000 grant NORCROSS (GWINNETT COUNTY), GA (SEPTEMBER 10, 2021) – On Monday, September 13, 2021, the City of Norcross will begin checkin[...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dow, Hill’s Pet Nutrition and PepsiCo among funding partners supporting recycling solutions for growing category FALL CHURCH, VA, September 30, 2019 – The Recycling Partnership announced today the launch of a Film and Flexibles Task Force to define, pilot and scale recyclin[...]

PRESTON, Wash. (March 6, 2020) – Talking Rain Beverage Company, the makers of Sparkling Ice, Sparkling Ice Plus Caffeine, and Talking Rain Waters, announced that it has joined The Recycling Partnership, the leading environmental non-profit improving how America recycles and catalyzing a system ch[...]

The following is a joint statement attributed to Steve Alexander, President, and CEO, The Association of Plastic Recyclers; Ron Gonen, CEO, Closed Loop Partners; Nina Goodrich, Executive Director, GreenBlue; And Keefe Harrison, CEO, The Recycling Partnership: (February 28, 2020) — With the [...]

Polypropylene Recycling Coalition brings total awards to nearly $3 million in grants, impacting 7.2 million people nationally. FALLS CHURCH, Va. (March 31, 2021) – The Recycling Partnership today announced a second round of grant funding through its Polypropylene Recycling Coalition, distributing [...]

The report finds investment to improve the residential recycling system in the U.S. over the next five years would deliver significant environmental and financial benefits, including: Save 710 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent; Reduce the average water usage of 30 million people; Save the equiv[...]

The following is a joint statement attributable to Steve Alexander, President, and CEO, The Association of Plastic Recyclers; Ron Gonen, CEO, Closed Loop Partners; and Keefe Harrison, CEO, The Recycling Partnership: (July 1, 2021) — “The recent recommendations made by the California Statewide Co[...]

The 2020 State of Curbside Recycling report calls for these clear, integrated strategies: Substantially greater support of community recycling programs with capital funding, technical assistance, and efforts to strengthen and grow local political commitment to recycling services. New and enhanced s[...]

What did we learn from the feedback we received?  As a mission-driven organization focused on both system change and partnership, there isn’t much we enjoy more than a good bit of stakeholder feedback. So, when we launched the 30-day public comment period for the Pathway to Circularity’s Rec[...]

An exploration of circular solutions for foam packaging Packaging plays a critical role in protecting products — including everything from food to household goods – from being harmed during their journey from conveyor belts to household shelves. But to reach a truly circular economy in the U[...]

By Keefe Harrison When the world moves through this terrible coronavirus pandemic, the economy is going to need help.  That’s why The Recycling Partnership is working hard, every day, to ensure that the economy that rebounds is a circular one that serves people and the planet. I grew up in a fami[...]

Film and flexible packaging is unlike other packaging when it comes to recycling. For starters, it’s not a single packaging type – the term encompasses a wide range of packaging, from polyethylene (PE) air pillows protecting e-commerce goods to heavy-duty dog food bags, to salty snack bags with [...]

By Dylan de Thomas Vice President of External Affairs The Recycling Partnership For many Americans, recycling is second nature. It’s something that we can’t imagine living without. The ethos of “waste not, want not” runs deep in our collective conscience. We feel bad when we throw something [...]

2020 may have become the year many Americans “resolved” to stayed home, but it taught us the value of recycling as a valuable and essential public service and allowed us to confront the daily reality of how valuable recycling is to critical supply chains providing cardboard for online order ship[...]