The Recycling Partnership’s Impact Report 2022

Complex Problems Require Bold, Integrated Solutions

The Recycling Partnership has a proven track record of getting things done and tackling big challenges. For nearly a decade, we’ve reached millions of households, diverted hundreds of millions of incremental pounds of valuable recyclables from landfills, delivered hundreds of thousands of recycling carts, and led innovation to transform system infrastructure and create more circular packaging.

But, we’re just getting started. 

We know how to create the circular system of the future – one where all households can recycle, people know what and how to recycle, materials recovery facilities are fully modernized, stakeholders work together to overcome material-specific obstacles to recycling, packaging is designed for or on a path to recyclability, and recycling has sustainable public-private funding based on smart policy.  

In our recent Impact Report, you can find our solutions to deliver that robust circular system, including on-the-ground community engagement, MRF collaboration, material-specific problem-solving, packaging circularity strategies, recycling behavior innovation, and more. These solutions are driving measurable impact – but we need to connect the solutions to the size of the problem.

At The Recycling Partnership, we recognize that only bold systemic change will drive the future we want to see. Each year, we forfeit up to two-thirds of residential recyclable material. That’s a tremendous loss of not only environmental benefit, but economic value. It doesn’t have to be this way. The time for action is now.