Looking to jazz up your social media presence? You’re in luck! Our Social Media Kit Volume 3 includes content you can schedule throughout the year with text and images – you have seasons, holidays, film and flexibles, and general recycling 101 information in this new kit sure to boost engagement[...]
Our free kit makes social media easy– whether you’re planning an annual content calendar or need a quick visual on the go. The kit includes 52 social media posts – they include both images and text, as well as tips and tricks for making the most of your campaigns.
We know you’re busy. And when it comes to communicating about recycling, we know there is much to say. The images and text in this kit, geared towards Texas communities, will help you quickly post eye-catching messages throughout the whole year with a Southern twist. Yee-haw!
Some batteries and personal electronics (PEs) can explode or cause fires when discarded in household trash or curbside recycling bins/carts. In fact, more than 1,800 waste and recycling facilities in North America—or roughly 40%—experienced fires annually in recent years, according to California[...]
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[...]
This article originally appeared in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Companies want to be seen as doing good for their community and the world. Charities can help — and benefit.
By Megan O’Neil
Keefe Harrison aspired to a life as a field biologist. In her late teens and 20s, she tagged sea turtles[...]
Earth Day is April 22 but the date isn’t just a day, it’s a movement, marking the beginning of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Earth Day 2020 will mark 50 years of Earth Day — a movement that has mobilized more than 1 billion people across 190+ countries.
The Recycling Partnersh[...]
The Recycling Partnership’s Center for Sustainable Behavior & Impact’s new Knowledge Report presents four themes for accelerating recycling best practices
Recycling is a complex, reverse supply chain—and its success depends on the small, everyday actions of hundreds of millions of people. [...]
Once a small, outdated materials recovery facility (MRF) in Central Texas, the Taylor, Texas site is now a key hub for recovering polypropylene (#5) and other plastics. When Circular Services, formerly Balcones, acquired Wilco Recycling in 2021, the facility lacked the infrastructure to sort polypro[...]
This article was originally published on Waste Dive on March 5, 2018 as a result of a Partnership press release that shared results from the nonprofit’s work in Atlanta, Chicago and Denver in 2017. Read the original story here.
Dive Brief:
The Recycling Partnership shared new results from 201[...]
The following op-ed was penned by Partnership CEO Keefe Harrison and published by The Philanthropy Journal on December 18, 2017. Read the original piece here.
While society has historically relied on government and nonprofits to create solutions for our largest challenges like hunger, social injusti[...]
The Recycling Partnership kicked off 2024 with a By the Numbers webinar focused on its newly released report, “State of Recycling, The Present and Future of Residential Recycling.”
The webinar, held on January 31, 2024, provided a deep dive into the report’s data, highlighted the are[...]
The Recycling Partnership Teams Up with The City of Atlanta to Improve Recycling
The Recycling Partnership, a national nonprofit that applies corporate partner funding to improve curbside recycling systems in cities and towns across the country, is working with the City of Atlanta’s Office of Resi[...]
A partnership that combined city, county, haulers, and their material recovery facility (MRF) to show the effectiveness of messaging at the curb in Spokane with amplified messaging throughout Spokane County.
As with many recycling education programs, reducing contamination was the primary goal for a[...]
Iowa City is on a roll. Thanks in part to a $106,000 grant from The Recycling Partnership, the community rolled out new, larger recycling carts to residents in December 2018. But the story only begins there. Iowa City has seen promising increases in recycling so far, with recycling tonnage increasin[...]
This article originally appeared in the March 2018 issue of Resource Recycling magazine.
by Cody Marshall and McKenna Morrigan
How do you get people to recycle more? What does it take to reduce contamination? How much more high-value recyclable material can be captured through curbside programs?
Now[...]
New funds highlight state’s Know It Before You Throw It education campaign
that will help Michigan reach goal of doubling state’s recycling rate to 30% by 2025
DETROIT – The City of Detroit is receiving nearly $1 million in grants to support the largest expansion of recycling in the city’s h[...]
Nationally Acclaimed Feet on the Street Cart-Tagging Campaign To Begin April 19, Helped by $85,263 Grant From Michigan EGLE & The Recycling Partnership
CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Canton Township is teaming with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) and national[...]
by Tricia Tiedt
What are we wasting for? See how much greenhouse gas (GHG) equivalents you could be saving with our newest interactive online tool. By inputting your community’s households, collection data, and participation rate, the GHG Calculator estimates the tonnage of recyclables and related[...]
The Recycling Partnership Awards New Grant with Support from the PepsiCo Foundation to Iowa City for Residential Recycling Carts
(Falls Church, VA) The Recycling Partnership is pleased to announce that it has awarded a grant for residential recycling carts to the city of Iowa City, IA, bringing it[...]
Global leader ExxonMobil is the first energy company to join The Recycling Partnership, a rapidly growing national nonprofit that leverages corporate investment to transform recycling for good in hundreds of communities across the country. Through support and collaboration, ExxonMobil, along with 34[...]
National Nonprofit The Recycling Partnership Has Awarded Gwinnett County a $100,000 Grant to Deliver 8,400 Recycling Carts and Provide Recycling Education to Nearly 200,000 Households in Unincorporated Gwinnett
GWINNETT Co., Ga. (June 14, 2021) – Households in unincorporated Gwinnett County now [...]
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (March 18, 2021) —Today, in honor of Global Recycling Day, The Recycling Partnership has launched Communities for Recycling, an innovative national initiative to provide Americans with real-time, personalized, and hyper-local recycling information through Facebook’s Messenger e[...]
Editable templates online help people know what to throw into the recycling
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Aug. 27, 2019 – The Recycling Partnership announced the public beta launch of DIYSigns today, the debut of a free online resource that anyone can use to help people know what to throw into the recyc[...]
Less than half the recyclables in U.S. homes are captured: just 14 million tons out of an available 36 million are recycled every year from single-family homes. The Recycling Partnership is working to change that by improving recycling systems in hundreds of communities across America with financi[...]
This summer and through the fall, The Recycling Partnership, a national nonprofit that applies corporate partner funding to improve curbside recycling systems in cities and town across the country, will be working with Chicago’s Department of Streets and Sanitation (DSS) to improve recycling in th[...]
This article was originally published by MassLive on June 30, 2017.
West Springfield Mayor Will Reichelt Says Successful Recycling Partnership Saving Town Money
A project designed to reduce inappropriate or contaminated recycling materials in West Springfield and other Massachusetts communities yiel[...]
Making Denver One of the Greatest Recycling Cities in the U.S.
How to make a great recycling city even better? That was the question Denver Public Works took on this year with The Recycling Partnership, a national nonprofit organization that applies corporate partner funding to improve the recyclin[...]
On Wednesday, May 27, The Recycling Partnership hosted a follow-up webinar with industry experts to answer the important question: What are on-the-ground impacts of the COVID-19 health crisis on recycling operations and workers? The supply chain and solid waste have both been deemed essential work i[...]
One resident per Ward will be named a “recycling superstar” for the perfect recycling set out
(WASHINGTON, DC) –Today, the Department of Public Works (DPW) launched a “Feet on the Street” campaign to improve the District’s curbside recycling program. During the eight-week campaign, [...]
How are your new year’s resolutions coming? Regardless of where you are with cleaning out the garage, organizing those cabinets, or learning how to knit, there’s still time to help your community meet its recycling resolutions.
Our free tools and resources can help you do just that:
Personalize[...]
Recycling is many things. It is both a noun and a verb. To a waste professional it may be the collection and diversion of tons of marketable materials. To community members, recycling is an easy way to waste less and to contribute to the greater good. When asked about recyclables, however, most mist[...]
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[...]
PizzaBoxRecycling.com launch fueled by new studies and new messaging resources
One of the heated debates we hear in recycling is whether or not pizza boxes are recyclable. A new study by corrugated pizza box manufacturers, processors, and discussions with paper mills found that grease and residual c[...]
Despite the Challenges of the COVID-19 Health Crisis, Sheboygan Transitioned to a Cart-Based Recycling Program and Increased Its Recycling Tonnage Nearly 20%
Few can claim 2020 was their year – that is with at least one exception. Sheboygan, Wisconsin, which transformed its recycling program amid [...]
2020 Impact Report Tells Story of the National Nonprofit Catalyzing Change to Move the U.S. Toward a Circular Economy
A first-of-its-kind multifamily recycling initiative produced results in Atlanta, Georgia, providing a roadmap for communities across the United States and continued success in Georgia.
The Do You Recycle? Challenge, designed by The Recycling Partnership, city officials and stakeholders, focused o[...]
$575,000 in Residential Recycling Grants Available to Build on Recent Successes Combating Contamination in 100 Michigan Communities by Michigan EGLE and The Recycling Partnership
LANSING, Mich. (June 8, 2021) – Together with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE),[...]
The program will help reduce recycling contamination and improve participation at drop-off sites throughout Ohio
Washington, D.C. August 17, 2022 – The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) and The Recycling Partnership today announced a $300,000 grant for Ohio communities to dramati[...]
Like many cities across the United States, Grand Rapids was grappling with contamination. Close to 30% of the city’s recycling stream was filled with items that could not be processed. Removing this material takes time, costs money, and can lower the quality of produced bales that recyclers de[...]
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition & The Recycling Partnership studied how plastic, paper, glass, aluminum, cartons and steel packaging fared in material recovery facilities & reprocessor facilities
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (JUNE 11TH, 2019) — ASTRX (Applying Systems Thinking to Recycling), th[...]
Collaboration between The Recycling Partnership and Michigan EGLE continues in a third phase of grants available statewide to improve residential recycling
Bangkok, Nov. 21, 2019– Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a world-class chemical company, announced that it has joined the Recycling Partnership, a change-agent environmental non-profit leader improving how America recycles. IVL’s collaboration with The Recycling Partnership will p[...]
With the launch of The Center for Sustainable Behavior & Impact, The Recycling Partnership conducted research for a first-ever Recycling Confidence Index, which included the following results and key findings.
By: Elizabeth Schussler, Senior Director of Social Change, Behavior, and Impact
To a[...]
Please join The Recycling Partnership for the Incorporating Motivational Messaging for Recycling Education and Outreach Webinar on September 27, 2023, at 1 pm ET.
The right messaging, targeted to the appropriate audience(s), can make all the difference in helping people to properly recycle every [...]
The right messaging, targeted to the appropriate audience(s), can make all the difference in helping people to properly recycle every chance they get. That’s what we cover in this webinar recording: Incorporating Motivational Messaging for Recycling Education and Outreach.
What You Will Learn
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Project Type: Cart Rollout
Total HH Served: 7,200
Projected New Tons/Year: 609
Year: 2016
East Lansing, MI, a college town adjacent to Michigan’s state capital, partnered with The Recycling Partnership to put 7,000 carts on the ground in the fall of 2016.
As part of this project, East Lansing:
R[...]
Building a better recycling system means more than delivering carts. Residents have to actively choose to participate, especially in opt-in programs. That is why The Recycling Partnership focuses not just on access, but on action. For more than 10 years, we have partnered with communities to test ho[...]
What Happened
In fall 2020, Omaha rolled out larger, lidded recycling carts and launched automated collection, marking a major system upgrade. Automated collection improves worker safety, allowed residents to recycle more, and kept valuable materials from becoming litter or entering the environment.[...]
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,[...]
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 [...]
Hey, municipal recycling coordinator! How do you know if your curbside recycling program is performing well? Do you know how to connect to powerful easy-to-use tools to increase your performance and address complicated issues like contamination? Do you have the ability to compare your multifamily,[...]
Single challenge aims to recycle nearly 2 million tons of material – including 7 billion bottles and cans – resulting in a greenhouse gas avoidance of 5.5 million tons of CO2
PURCHASE, NY (July 31, 2018) – The PepsiCo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of one of the world’s leading food a[...]
Did you catch Cody Marshall on the evening news? He was in Lynn, Massachusetts, helping the city with a cart tagging exercise when Boston station WBZ TV caught up with them. Cart tagging is our proven approach to help communities reduce their contamination levels and we were happy to have the med[...]
photo by Edward Angelo DeCroce
(Denver, CO – June 29, 2018) The City of Denver, The Recycling Partnership with special support of the Can Capture Group – a consortium of national can manufacturers: Anheuser-Busch; Ardagh Group; Ball Corporation and Crown Holdings, aluminum suppliers: Novelis[...]
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Nestlé Waters North America
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#NotTrash Instagram campaign is first activation between Poland Spring and The Recycling Partnership to help residents recycle more, better
STAMFORD, CT – Less than 30% of plastic bottles ar[...]
Leading global consumer products company joins efforts to make recycling easier for 25 million families across the country
FALLS CHURCH, VA (November 15, 2018) – Global consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive Company is joining The Recycling Partnership and PepsiCo Foundation’s recycling cha[...]
In October 2022, The Recycling Partnership kicked off By the Numbers, a new webinar series for industry stakeholders focused on current trends in the U.S. recycling system and a circular economy.
The first webinar in this series was held on October 26 and unpacked the data behind plastics recycling[...]
National research conducted by The Recycling Partnership in June 2021 explored recycling behavior and attitudes, measured the level of reliance that consumers placed on the recycling information they found on product labels, and how well they understood that information. The research included survey[...]
Together They will Implement The Recycling Partnership’s Nationally Acclaimed “Feet on the Street” Cart-Tagging Recycling Education Campaign
Gahanna, OH (April 27, 2021) – The City of Gahanna has partnered with SWACO to bring The Recycling Partnership’s nationally acclaimed Feet on the Str[...]
National Nonprofit The Recycling Partnership Awarded City a $649,000 Grant to Deliver Curbside Recycling Carts and Transition to Uniform Recycling Collection
The City of Milwaukee is transforming its curbside recycling program. Beginning in June, the City is transitioning to an every other week spri[...]
Investment and collaboration will make recycling safer, more accessible, and bring the City of Baltimore closer to Zero Waste
(June 23, 2021) The City of Baltimore announced today a groundbreaking collaboration brought together by The Recycling Partnership, with American Beverage’s Every Bottle Ba[...]
FALLS CHURCH, VA (July 20, 2021) – The newly-elected Board Directors of The Recycling Partnership bring unmatched sustainability and industry knowledge, and business expertise to help lead The Partnership’s work to transform the U.S. recycling system and activate a circular economy for packaging[...]
By: Elizabeth Schussler, Senior Director of Social Change, Behavior, and Impact
At The Recycling Partnership, behavior change is at the heart of everything we do because people and the planet are at our core. A focus on recycling behavior and the impacts of behavior are ingrained in our DNA and our[...]
By: Rachel Kipar, Manager of Circular Ventures at The Recycling Partnership
To turn the dream of a healthy, vibrant planet into reality, the time for action is now. There is an enormous opportunity for system change with the United Nations’ groundbreaking international resolution calling for an en[...]
Earth Day event underscores broad support and solutions for national EPR policy to end plastic waste
OTTAWA, CANADA (April 19, 2024) – Against the backdrop of the fourth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) to develop an international legally binding instrument on pla[...]
According to the latest U.S. Census data, we are becoming more racially and ethnically diverse as a nation. In turn, this means that our recycling outreach programs need to become more inclusive and accessible as well.
At the 2023 Resource Recycling Conference in Orlando, Florida, we introduced [...]
Want to unlock the recycling potential of your community? Tune into our webinar on October 25, 2023, at 1 pm ET.
Recycling is a complex reverse supply chain that begins in the household, but there is limited visibility into what actually happens in the home behind closed doors. While we know approxi[...]
Recycling is a complex reverse supply chain that begins in the household, but there is limited visibility into what actually happens in the home behind closed doors. While we know approximately half of all household recyclables never make it to a materials recycling facility, nobody knows exactly wh[...]
During the Motivational Messaging and In-Home Recycling webinars, you had questions. And there just wasn’t enough time to answer them so we brought back our speakers for a special Q&A Follow Up Webinar. We answered questions about how to unlock the secrets of effective recycling messagin[...]
The “Feet on the Street” Cart-Tagging Campaign is part of The Recycling Partnership’s $140,750 Grant to Improve Recycling in Tucson
TUCSON, AZ. (March 12, 2021) – The City of Tucson’s Environmental and General Services Department (EGSD) has launched The Recycling Partnership’s Feet on th[...]
Houston, TX. (April 28, 2021) – The City of Houston is launching a curbside recycling cart-tagging pilot program modeled on The Recycling Partnership’s successful Feet on the Street campaign. The cart tagging initiative is aimed at improving the quality and quantity of recyclable materials colle[...]
By Elizabeth Schussler, Sr Dir Social Change, Behavior and Impact
Trying to fight contamination in your local recycling program? Ask specifically for what you want (or don’t want). Our research shows that much of contamination can be solved by telling residents exactly how to recycle properly. (Wa[...]
Nearly Half of one Million Residents will Benefit from Recycling Expansion
OMAHA (Jan. 5, 2021) – The Recycling Partnership awarded its largest recycling cart grant in its six-year history to the City of Omaha, expanding recycling capacity to nearly half of one million residents with the delivery [...]
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[...]
For the environment, jobs and new products from old materials, keep investing in recycling
This op-ed by Partnership CEO Keefe Harrison was officially featured in MinnPost’s Community Voices section. To read the original post, click here.
In today’s fractured political climate there are few[...]
Builds on success of City of Atlanta-based pilot program that increased recycling collection by 57 percent in select areas.
March 14, 2019 12:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time
FALLS CHURCH, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Recycling Partnership with support from The Coca-Cola Foundation is launchin[...]
The Recycling Partnership and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, with Love Beauty and Planet, Help Expand Curbside Recycling Collection in Nashville
Collection to go from once a month to every other week by early 2020
A combined $2.8 million grant from The Recycling Partnership a[...]
New Recycling Partnership Initiative Will Accelerate the Shift to a Circular Economy
The Circular Economy Accelerator™ will bring together forward-thinking companies to proactively pursue policy solutions to catalyze the circular economy for good
Falls Church, VA – Recycling is in turmoil, but h[...]
Collaboration awards nearly $211,000 to six Ohio communities to improve recycling
COLUMBUS, OH (May 14, 2019) – The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA), solid waste management districts (SWMDs), material recovery facilities (MRFs), haulers, Ohio communities and The Recycling Partnershi[...]
FALLS CHURCH, VA — On June 24-26, 2019, The Recycling Partnership will host their inaugural Leadership Summit: 50 Cities Driving the Circular Economy, inviting a select 50 cities and their sustainability representatives for a two-day summit in Chicago to drive recycling systems change across t[...]
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[...]
A grant from The Recycling Partnership is expanding public space and beachside recycling access and educating residents how to improve their curbside recycling
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. (Nov. 18, 2020) – Narragansett beachgoers and residents will soon have additional access to enable recycling where they[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Best Management Practices report helps local recycling programs achieve long-term success
Falls Church, Va. (June 24, 2020) – The contract between a local recycling program and a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) is one of the most impactful legal documents in the U.S. public recycling system. That[...]
EGLE, The Recycling Partnership jointly award $800,000 in grants to help 300,000 households improve capture of high-quality recyclables
Together, more than 100 Michigan communities are joining state, regional and national partners to combat recycling contamination and improve the capture of high-qua[...]
Multifamily Recycling Success: How Minnesota Is Making a Difference
From college dorms to apartment buildings, multifamily properties often pose unique challenges when it comes to recycling efforts. But four Minnesota communities are proving that education and outreach can have a significant impact [...]
$2.7 Million in Grants Awarded Following The Recycling Partnership’s 2019 50 Cities Leadership Summit Transforming Recycling Programs Nationwide
Falls Church, Va. (Oct. 08, 2020) – Just one year after hosting its inaugural Leadership Summit, which saw a select 50 cities invited for a two-day r[...]
The upcoming “Feet on the Street” cart tagging and recycling education initiative is part of Apopka’s efforts to provide tailored curbside recycling feedback to residents.
APOPKA, Fla. October 14, 2020 – The City of Apopka is launching a pilot of The Recycling Partnership’s Feet on the Str[...]
Multi-million-dollar investment to provide high-capacity recycling collection carts to improve Providence’s curbside collection system, boost recycling rates
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (March 9, 2026) — Beginning this month, the City of Providence will start delivering new, standardized trash[...]
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[...]
This article originally appeared in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Companies want to be seen as doing good for their community and the world. Charities can help — and benefit.
By Megan O’Neil
Keefe Harrison aspired to a life as a field biologist. In her late teens and 20s, she tagged sea turtles[...]
The Recycling Partnership’s Center for Sustainable Behavior & Impact’s new Knowledge Report presents four themes for accelerating recycling best practices
Recycling is a complex, reverse supply chain—and its success depends on the small, everyday actions of hundreds of millions of people. [...]
Once a small, outdated materials recovery facility (MRF) in Central Texas, the Taylor, Texas site is now a key hub for recovering polypropylene (#5) and other plastics. When Circular Services, formerly Balcones, acquired Wilco Recycling in 2021, the facility lacked the infrastructure to sort polypro[...]
The following op-ed was penned by Partnership CEO Keefe Harrison and published by The Philanthropy Journal on December 18, 2017. Read the original piece here.
While society has historically relied on government and nonprofits to create solutions for our largest challenges like hunger, social injusti[...]
The Recycling Partnership kicked off 2024 with a By the Numbers webinar focused on its newly released report, “State of Recycling, The Present and Future of Residential Recycling.”
The webinar, held on January 31, 2024, provided a deep dive into the report’s data, highlighted the are[...]
The Recycling Partnership Teams Up with The City of Atlanta to Improve Recycling
The Recycling Partnership, a national nonprofit that applies corporate partner funding to improve curbside recycling systems in cities and towns across the country, is working with the City of Atlanta’s Office of Resi[...]
This article originally appeared in the March 2018 issue of Resource Recycling magazine.
by Cody Marshall and McKenna Morrigan
How do you get people to recycle more? What does it take to reduce contamination? How much more high-value recyclable material can be captured through curbside programs?
Now[...]
New funds highlight state’s Know It Before You Throw It education campaign
that will help Michigan reach goal of doubling state’s recycling rate to 30% by 2025
DETROIT – The City of Detroit is receiving nearly $1 million in grants to support the largest expansion of recycling in the city’s h[...]
Nationally Acclaimed Feet on the Street Cart-Tagging Campaign To Begin April 19, Helped by $85,263 Grant From Michigan EGLE & The Recycling Partnership
CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Canton Township is teaming with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) and national[...]
The Recycling Partnership Awards New Grant with Support from the PepsiCo Foundation to Iowa City for Residential Recycling Carts
(Falls Church, VA) The Recycling Partnership is pleased to announce that it has awarded a grant for residential recycling carts to the city of Iowa City, IA, bringing it[...]
Global leader ExxonMobil is the first energy company to join The Recycling Partnership, a rapidly growing national nonprofit that leverages corporate investment to transform recycling for good in hundreds of communities across the country. Through support and collaboration, ExxonMobil, along with 34[...]
National Nonprofit The Recycling Partnership Has Awarded Gwinnett County a $100,000 Grant to Deliver 8,400 Recycling Carts and Provide Recycling Education to Nearly 200,000 Households in Unincorporated Gwinnett
GWINNETT Co., Ga. (June 14, 2021) – Households in unincorporated Gwinnett County now [...]
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (March 18, 2021) —Today, in honor of Global Recycling Day, The Recycling Partnership has launched Communities for Recycling, an innovative national initiative to provide Americans with real-time, personalized, and hyper-local recycling information through Facebook’s Messenger e[...]
Editable templates online help people know what to throw into the recycling
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Aug. 27, 2019 – The Recycling Partnership announced the public beta launch of DIYSigns today, the debut of a free online resource that anyone can use to help people know what to throw into the recyc[...]
This summer and through the fall, The Recycling Partnership, a national nonprofit that applies corporate partner funding to improve curbside recycling systems in cities and town across the country, will be working with Chicago’s Department of Streets and Sanitation (DSS) to improve recycling in th[...]
This article was originally published by MassLive on June 30, 2017.
West Springfield Mayor Will Reichelt Says Successful Recycling Partnership Saving Town Money
A project designed to reduce inappropriate or contaminated recycling materials in West Springfield and other Massachusetts communities yiel[...]
Making Denver One of the Greatest Recycling Cities in the U.S.
How to make a great recycling city even better? That was the question Denver Public Works took on this year with The Recycling Partnership, a national nonprofit organization that applies corporate partner funding to improve the recyclin[...]
On Wednesday, May 27, The Recycling Partnership hosted a follow-up webinar with industry experts to answer the important question: What are on-the-ground impacts of the COVID-19 health crisis on recycling operations and workers? The supply chain and solid waste have both been deemed essential work i[...]
One resident per Ward will be named a “recycling superstar” for the perfect recycling set out
(WASHINGTON, DC) –Today, the Department of Public Works (DPW) launched a “Feet on the Street” campaign to improve the District’s curbside recycling program. During the eight-week campaign, [...]
Recycling is many things. It is both a noun and a verb. To a waste professional it may be the collection and diversion of tons of marketable materials. To community members, recycling is an easy way to waste less and to contribute to the greater good. When asked about recyclables, however, most mist[...]
PizzaBoxRecycling.com launch fueled by new studies and new messaging resources
One of the heated debates we hear in recycling is whether or not pizza boxes are recyclable. A new study by corrugated pizza box manufacturers, processors, and discussions with paper mills found that grease and residual c[...]
2020 Impact Report Tells Story of the National Nonprofit Catalyzing Change to Move the U.S. Toward a Circular Economy
$575,000 in Residential Recycling Grants Available to Build on Recent Successes Combating Contamination in 100 Michigan Communities by Michigan EGLE and The Recycling Partnership
LANSING, Mich. (June 8, 2021) – Together with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE),[...]
The program will help reduce recycling contamination and improve participation at drop-off sites throughout Ohio
Washington, D.C. August 17, 2022 – The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) and The Recycling Partnership today announced a $300,000 grant for Ohio communities to dramati[...]
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition & The Recycling Partnership studied how plastic, paper, glass, aluminum, cartons and steel packaging fared in material recovery facilities & reprocessor facilities
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (JUNE 11TH, 2019) — ASTRX (Applying Systems Thinking to Recycling), th[...]
Collaboration between The Recycling Partnership and Michigan EGLE continues in a third phase of grants available statewide to improve residential recycling
Bangkok, Nov. 21, 2019– Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a world-class chemical company, announced that it has joined the Recycling Partnership, a change-agent environmental non-profit leader improving how America recycles. IVL’s collaboration with The Recycling Partnership will p[...]
Please join The Recycling Partnership for the Incorporating Motivational Messaging for Recycling Education and Outreach Webinar on September 27, 2023, at 1 pm ET.
The right messaging, targeted to the appropriate audience(s), can make all the difference in helping people to properly recycle every [...]
The right messaging, targeted to the appropriate audience(s), can make all the difference in helping people to properly recycle every chance they get. That’s what we cover in this webinar recording: Incorporating Motivational Messaging for Recycling Education and Outreach.
What You Will Learn
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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,[...]
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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 [...]
Hey, municipal recycling coordinator! How do you know if your curbside recycling program is performing well? Do you know how to connect to powerful easy-to-use tools to increase your performance and address complicated issues like contamination? Do you have the ability to compare your multifamily,[...]
Single challenge aims to recycle nearly 2 million tons of material – including 7 billion bottles and cans – resulting in a greenhouse gas avoidance of 5.5 million tons of CO2
PURCHASE, NY (July 31, 2018) – The PepsiCo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of one of the world’s leading food a[...]
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(Denver, CO – June 29, 2018) The City of Denver, The Recycling Partnership with special support of the Can Capture Group – a consortium of national can manufacturers: Anheuser-Busch; Ardagh Group; Ball Corporation and Crown Holdings, aluminum suppliers: Novelis[...]
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#NotTrash Instagram campaign is first activation between Poland Spring and The Recycling Partnership to help residents recycle more, better
STAMFORD, CT – Less than 30% of plastic bottles ar[...]
Leading global consumer products company joins efforts to make recycling easier for 25 million families across the country
FALLS CHURCH, VA (November 15, 2018) – Global consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive Company is joining The Recycling Partnership and PepsiCo Foundation’s recycling cha[...]
In October 2022, The Recycling Partnership kicked off By the Numbers, a new webinar series for industry stakeholders focused on current trends in the U.S. recycling system and a circular economy.
The first webinar in this series was held on October 26 and unpacked the data behind plastics recycling[...]
Together They will Implement The Recycling Partnership’s Nationally Acclaimed “Feet on the Street” Cart-Tagging Recycling Education Campaign
Gahanna, OH (April 27, 2021) – The City of Gahanna has partnered with SWACO to bring The Recycling Partnership’s nationally acclaimed Feet on the Str[...]
National Nonprofit The Recycling Partnership Awarded City a $649,000 Grant to Deliver Curbside Recycling Carts and Transition to Uniform Recycling Collection
The City of Milwaukee is transforming its curbside recycling program. Beginning in June, the City is transitioning to an every other week spri[...]
Investment and collaboration will make recycling safer, more accessible, and bring the City of Baltimore closer to Zero Waste
(June 23, 2021) The City of Baltimore announced today a groundbreaking collaboration brought together by The Recycling Partnership, with American Beverage’s Every Bottle Ba[...]
FALLS CHURCH, VA (July 20, 2021) – The newly-elected Board Directors of The Recycling Partnership bring unmatched sustainability and industry knowledge, and business expertise to help lead The Partnership’s work to transform the U.S. recycling system and activate a circular economy for packaging[...]
By: Elizabeth Schussler, Senior Director of Social Change, Behavior, and Impact
At The Recycling Partnership, behavior change is at the heart of everything we do because people and the planet are at our core. A focus on recycling behavior and the impacts of behavior are ingrained in our DNA and our[...]
Earth Day event underscores broad support and solutions for national EPR policy to end plastic waste
OTTAWA, CANADA (April 19, 2024) – Against the backdrop of the fourth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) to develop an international legally binding instrument on pla[...]
Want to unlock the recycling potential of your community? Tune into our webinar on October 25, 2023, at 1 pm ET.
Recycling is a complex reverse supply chain that begins in the household, but there is limited visibility into what actually happens in the home behind closed doors. While we know approxi[...]
Recycling is a complex reverse supply chain that begins in the household, but there is limited visibility into what actually happens in the home behind closed doors. While we know approximately half of all household recyclables never make it to a materials recycling facility, nobody knows exactly wh[...]
During the Motivational Messaging and In-Home Recycling webinars, you had questions. And there just wasn’t enough time to answer them so we brought back our speakers for a special Q&A Follow Up Webinar. We answered questions about how to unlock the secrets of effective recycling messagin[...]
The “Feet on the Street” Cart-Tagging Campaign is part of The Recycling Partnership’s $140,750 Grant to Improve Recycling in Tucson
TUCSON, AZ. (March 12, 2021) – The City of Tucson’s Environmental and General Services Department (EGSD) has launched The Recycling Partnership’s Feet on th[...]
Houston, TX. (April 28, 2021) – The City of Houston is launching a curbside recycling cart-tagging pilot program modeled on The Recycling Partnership’s successful Feet on the Street campaign. The cart tagging initiative is aimed at improving the quality and quantity of recyclable materials colle[...]
Nearly Half of one Million Residents will Benefit from Recycling Expansion
OMAHA (Jan. 5, 2021) – The Recycling Partnership awarded its largest recycling cart grant in its six-year history to the City of Omaha, expanding recycling capacity to nearly half of one million residents with the delivery [...]
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[...]
Builds on success of City of Atlanta-based pilot program that increased recycling collection by 57 percent in select areas.
March 14, 2019 12:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time
FALLS CHURCH, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Recycling Partnership with support from The Coca-Cola Foundation is launchin[...]
The Recycling Partnership and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, with Love Beauty and Planet, Help Expand Curbside Recycling Collection in Nashville
Collection to go from once a month to every other week by early 2020
A combined $2.8 million grant from The Recycling Partnership a[...]
New Recycling Partnership Initiative Will Accelerate the Shift to a Circular Economy
The Circular Economy Accelerator™ will bring together forward-thinking companies to proactively pursue policy solutions to catalyze the circular economy for good
Falls Church, VA – Recycling is in turmoil, but h[...]
Collaboration awards nearly $211,000 to six Ohio communities to improve recycling
COLUMBUS, OH (May 14, 2019) – The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA), solid waste management districts (SWMDs), material recovery facilities (MRFs), haulers, Ohio communities and The Recycling Partnershi[...]
FALLS CHURCH, VA — On June 24-26, 2019, The Recycling Partnership will host their inaugural Leadership Summit: 50 Cities Driving the Circular Economy, inviting a select 50 cities and their sustainability representatives for a two-day summit in Chicago to drive recycling systems change across t[...]
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[...]
A grant from The Recycling Partnership is expanding public space and beachside recycling access and educating residents how to improve their curbside recycling
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. (Nov. 18, 2020) – Narragansett beachgoers and residents will soon have additional access to enable recycling where they[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Best Management Practices report helps local recycling programs achieve long-term success
Falls Church, Va. (June 24, 2020) – The contract between a local recycling program and a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) is one of the most impactful legal documents in the U.S. public recycling system. That[...]
EGLE, The Recycling Partnership jointly award $800,000 in grants to help 300,000 households improve capture of high-quality recyclables
Together, more than 100 Michigan communities are joining state, regional and national partners to combat recycling contamination and improve the capture of high-qua[...]
Multifamily Recycling Success: How Minnesota Is Making a Difference
From college dorms to apartment buildings, multifamily properties often pose unique challenges when it comes to recycling efforts. But four Minnesota communities are proving that education and outreach can have a significant impact [...]
$2.7 Million in Grants Awarded Following The Recycling Partnership’s 2019 50 Cities Leadership Summit Transforming Recycling Programs Nationwide
Falls Church, Va. (Oct. 08, 2020) – Just one year after hosting its inaugural Leadership Summit, which saw a select 50 cities invited for a two-day r[...]
The upcoming “Feet on the Street” cart tagging and recycling education initiative is part of Apopka’s efforts to provide tailored curbside recycling feedback to residents.
APOPKA, Fla. October 14, 2020 – The City of Apopka is launching a pilot of The Recycling Partnership’s Feet on the Str[...]
Multi-million-dollar investment to provide high-capacity recycling collection carts to improve Providence’s curbside collection system, boost recycling rates
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (March 9, 2026) — Beginning this month, the City of Providence will start delivering new, standardized trash[...]
