Explore available grants, technical assistance, and educational support available to recycling programs and facilities to build a better recycling system.
Apply for grants available to U.S. communities and recycling facilities to improve access, collections, operations, and processing.
From grants to step-by-step guidance, The Recycling Partnership has the resources needed to implement and improve single-family recycling programs.
Our Multifamily Recycling Guide and Toolkit contains case studies, best practices, and customizable templates for communities and multifamily properties.
Let's fight contamination together. Access our proven kits and campaigns to dramatically improve your contamination rates.
The residential materials recovery facilities (MRF) map displays recycling facilities across the U.S.
Created with community programs and materials recovery facilities in mind, this guide offers best management practices for both parties to achieve long-term success.
Through research and pilot projects on what works and what doesn’t, learn what steps your community can take to improve residential recycling.
The Recycling Partnership's Center for Sustainable Behavior & Impact is driving improvement in recycling behavior and boosting confidence in U.S. recycling.
The Recycling Confidence Index tracks, quantifies, and qualifies recycling confidence over time and identifies the factors influencing trust.
The Recycling Partnership's circularity solutions bring the necessary clarity to successfully advance the circular economy for packaging.
This Assessment provides step-by-step instructions to help companies understand packaging recyclability and pursue circularity.
Recycle Check offers an interactive package-specific solution providing localized recycling information to consumers across the U.S.
Plastic IQ is a free, data-driven digital tool helping U.S. companies design sustainable plastic packaging.
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.
The Recycling Partnership Policy Accelerator is working to develop smart policy solutions to unlock the environmental and economic benefits of recycling.
The Recycling Partnership's analysis shows that U.S. states could expect significant increases in recycling rates with the introduction of EPR law.
Create customized collateral to support education and advocacy around smart, well-designed extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies in your state.
Get step-by-step guidance to prepare for recycling policy implentation in states across the U.S.
Material coalition-focused work has the potential to unlock supply through real systems change by leveraging the power of many across the value chain.
The Film and Flexibles Coalition is working collaboratively to identify and scale recovery methods for film and flexible packaging.
The PET Recycling Coalition convenes a robust group of stakeholders driving improvements that transform the plastic #1 recycling landscape.
The Polypropylene Recycling Coalition is working collaboratively to improve and increase the recycling of #5 plastic packaging.
Discover the latest recycling resources, including community and facility grants, research reports, recycling data, and updates.
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Unlock the data to advance recycling and a circular economy in the U.S.
Find out what is accepted for recycling in your community.
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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.
Meet the nation's leading recycling and circular economy subject-matter experts.
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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.
More than 80 companies are working to invest in the system, make their packaging more circular, and meet climate and sustainability goals.
We at The Partnership take our work seriously and we invite others to join us in embracing our core values.
The nation's leading recycling NGO has a 5-point plan to provide Americans a better recycling system, one that delivers environmental and economic benefits.
Together we can solve for circularity. Let’s connect to advance a circular economy by building a better recycling system.
Convenience is king. High performing programs capture at least 400 lbs per household each year. If nearly all your homes participate in your curbside program this number could significantly increase to over 600 lbs per hh.
Programs could capture up to 40% more material by providing recycling collection to every eligible household instead of requiring those households to opt-in.
You're shooting for 75% here. More active carts = more tons.
Healthy programs keep contamination to less than 10%.
For best results, remind residents of the basics at least once/year. Annual mailers and up-to-date websites are powerful tools.
Not bad. But let’s see how we can improve.
Nice! That’s not too shabby.
Wow! Keep up the good work.
Responses to three key areas determine the overall recycling score.
Below are the individual results based on your answers. Want to learn more? Below is our best recommendation to increase your recycling score.
Did you know that 96% of top performing programs have single stream carts automatically provided to every eligible household? Consider providing your residents with that high level of service.
Great job! Looks like you’re using single stream carts to recycle. However, it seems your contamination rate is a little high. Get it back in check with these resources.
Great job! Looks like you’re using single stream carts to recycle and your contamination rates are low as well. However, let’s look at how we can engage your residents.
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