Engage Your Residents to Recycle More, Better During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Last November, we launched Volume 3 of our Recycling Social Media Kit for Communities, just in time for America Recycles Week. Since then, Coronavirus (COVID-19) has reshaped the world in which we live. Fast forward to today.[...]
Have you noticed that you see more posts from certain friends or family members on Facebook? This ever-running string of content is called the news feed. If you see more content from your sister than your college roommate, that is Facebook’s algorithm in action. When you comment on and “like” [...]
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.
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[...]
Choose from seven different impact ads to share on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
If you’re like many Americans, you may still be acquainting yourself with a new normal of social distancing, but even in uncertain times, the state of our planet’s health demands our dedicated action to protect natural resources and abate climate change.
While you’re continuing to stay saf[...]
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!
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[...]
Join Us in Saying #ThankYouRecyclingHeroes! to Recycling Workers in Your Community
Like us, we know you are grateful to those on the frontline of the fight against COVID-19, including recycling workers. In communities across our nation and world, nonessential businesses have closed, while essential [...]
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[...]
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. [...]
“Even the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” So they say. Back in February, we shared ideas to inspire your planning for the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day. Nearly two months later, our world has changed as a result of a global pandemic, but now, more than ever, Americans view recycl[...]
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[...]
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[...]
If you’re one of the many Americans who have recently found themselves working from home, you may be finding some difficulty adjusting to the new norm of social distancing from your in-home or makeshift office.
With employees across more than 14 states, The Recycling Partnership is accustomed to r[...]
The COVID-19 Pandemic May Force Us to Rethink How We Celebrate America Recycles, but It Reinforces Just How Much Recycling Matters to Americans, Our Supply Chains, and Our Planet
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that now, more than ever, Americans view recycling as a valuable and essential servic[...]
Earth Month is almost here, and if you’re struggling to find new ways to inspire your community or workplace to celebrate and give back to our planet online, you’re not alone.
The global pandemic has reshaped everything from where and how we work, to how households are producing more recycling a[...]
As the pandemic continues, we’ve not only seen increased awareness around recycling as a valuable and essential service, but the U.S. supply chain has increased demand for recycled materials to support American manufacturing of new products and packaging.
What better time to position the unique [...]
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[...]
Nationally Acclaimed Feet on the Street House-to-House Effort To Begin Monday, June 21, Helped By $118,605 Grant From Michigan EGLE & The Recycling Partnership
Washtenaw County, MI — Washtenaw Regional Resource Management Authority (WRRMA) is teaming with the Michigan Department of Environm[...]
Nationally Acclaimed Feet on the Street Cart-Tagging Campaign To Begin April 19, Helped by $14,400 Grant From Michigan EGLE & The Recycling Partnership
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — The City of Auburn Hills is teaming with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) and na[...]
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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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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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 [...]
Grant Applications are open through March 10, 2023
MICHIGAN COMMUNITIES, DO YOU NEED HELP WITH YOUR RECYCLING PROGRAM?
The Recycling Partnership, through funding from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) is offering grants to communities to enhance residential curbsi[...]
$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),[...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Stratham is the first New Hampshire municipality to be awarded a prestigious Residental Curbside Recycling Cart Grant from The Recycling Partnership
STRATHAM, N.H. (Jan. 19, 2021) – The Town of Stratham is on a roll with recycling, rolling out new lidded, wheeled recycling carts for residents this[...]
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 [...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
$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[...]
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 [...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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 [...]
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[...]
Collaboration between The Recycling Partnership and Michigan EGLE continues in a third phase of grants available statewide to improve residential recycling
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[...]
Grants available to increase participation and reduce contamination at recycling drop-off sites in Ohio.
Through a collaboration between the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) and The Recycling Partnership, Ohio communities have the opportunity to apply for a grant to improve their dr[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Residents Need to Choose Their Carts by August 4, 2020
The City of Broken Arrow, OK is pleased to announce a grant awarded by The Recycling Partnership to bring residential recycling carts and educational programming to the City. The Recycling Partnership is a national nonprofit working with communi[...]
FALLS CHURCH, VA (April 25, 2019) – The Recycling Partnership opened up grant applications today for the 2019 Residential Curbside Recycling Cart Grant Program, offering more funding and flexibility for advancing cart-based curbside recycling in communities across the United States through financ[...]
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[...]
Amazon, International Paper, and Starbucks Coffee Company have joined on as new funding partners of The Recycling Partnership, a rapidly growing national nonprofit that leverages corporate investment to transform recycling for good in hundreds of communities across the country. By supporting The Re[...]
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[...]
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business
Atlanta (CNN Business) – Early last year, Coca-Cola set an ambitious goal for itself: Collect and recycle the equivalent of every bottle or can it sells by 2030.
The company has committed to making its bottles and cans out of at least 50% recycled materi[...]
This press release was initially published by Orange County Government Florida.
Partnership with National Organizations Will Help Recycling Education
Orange County, Fla. (March 12, 2019) – Today the Orange County Board of County Commissioners approved a grant agreement with The Recycling Partne[...]
This press release was originally published and distributed by Public Affairs out of the Office of the City Manager for the City of Auburn, AL.
AUBURN, Ala.- The rollout of the single-stream recycling program is complete, and the City of Auburn is moving on to the next step of the process, e[...]
by Jill Martin, Recycling Today
Simplified communication decreases contamination and confusion among residents while increasing the capture rate for curbside recyclables.
Imagine trying to take a train, subway or bus system across a city where the signage, names and colors of the routes are inconsis[...]
By Monica Boehringer
Refuse and Recycling Coordinator
City of Manassas
Maintaining the interest of your stakeholders can be a challenge on the best of days. Sometimes, it seems that no matter how loud you shout “Recycle!,” it feels like you’re shouting into an endless void. But, there are ways[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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 article was originally published in the March 2017 edition of Waste Today.
In the world of cart-based recycling, collective planning, partnership and real-time feedback keep things on the right path.
By Jason Hale and Cody Marshall
Aug. 16, 2016, 10:05 a.m. Central Daylight Time: “We have a p[...]
This press release was originally published by the World Wildlife Fund on June 12, 2017.
World Wildlife Fund Convenes Organizations to Enable A Global Market For Sustainable Materials Management
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today announced the Cascading Materials Vision, a platform that seeks to enabl[...]
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[...]
Officials To Look For Recycling Blunders; Offending Bins Will Be Tagged
Next month, residents may notice their recycling hasn’t been picked up, but it won’t be because they forgot to roll out the bin.
On August 7, town employees will begin an eight-week curbside engagement program on four of Dar[...]
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[...]
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[...]
This article originally appeared on Heineken USA’s blog on Aug. 2, 2017.
To the great people of Europe: thanks for sharing! Teams from the top soccer leagues in the world touched down in the U.S. this summer for the fifth installment of the International Champions Cup and the competition was[...]
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[...]
The following op-ed was penned by The Recycling Partnership’s VP of Industry Collaboration Dylan de Thomas and was originally published by Resource Recycling. Read the original article here.
For a long time, the story of recycling has been purported to be simple – you just have to do X and i[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
2020 Impact Report Tells Story of the National Nonprofit Catalyzing Change to Move the U.S. Toward a Circular Economy
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 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[...]
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[...]
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 Immediate Release
City is receiving $140,000 recycling grant to raise awareness of what can and cannot be recycled and how to recycle;
Newark one of seven cities across nation to receive recycling grant
Newark, NJ—September 25, 2019—Mayor Ras J. Baraka, Public Works Director Khalif Thomas, T[...]
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Charlotte, NC, July 24, 2019 – Alpek Polyester announces that it has joined The Recycling Partnership as an active member in support of the organization’s goals of increasing residential recycling rates and the need for increased [...]
The Recycling Partnership Launches West Coast Contamination Initiative with First $1 Million Donation
Amazon and Keurig Dr Pepper among funders supporting critical work in key area of the country to drive circular economy
(Falls Church, VA). Contamination costs the U.S. recycling system more than $3[...]
Falls Church, VA – MillerCoors announced today it is joining 44 leading brands, retailers and organizations to support The Recycling Partnership and its mission to create a sustainable recycling system in the U.S. that creates more circular economy jobs, more material recovery and stronger, more e[...]
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 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[...]
FALLS CHURCH, VA (May 14, 2019) – The Recycling Partnership today announced the appointment of a new chairwoman and two new members to its Executive Committee, as well as new committee chairs for its board governance, communications, and public affairs committees for 2019.
Kim Carswell, dir[...]
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[...]
Foundation’s $300,000 grant will boost recycling across the country
Falls Church, VA (April 24, 2019) – Alcoa Foundation announced today it is contributing $300,000 to The Recycling Partnership, the nonprofit change agent transforming recycling for good. The donation will help boost residentia[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Engage Your Residents to Recycle More, Better During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Last November, we launched Volume 3 of our Recycling Social Media Kit for Communities, just in time for America Recycles Week. Since then, Coronavirus (COVID-19) has reshaped the world in which we live. Fast forward to today.[...]
Have you noticed that you see more posts from certain friends or family members on Facebook? This ever-running string of content is called the news feed. If you see more content from your sister than your college roommate, that is Facebook’s algorithm in action. When you comment on and “like” [...]
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[...]
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[...]
Join Us in Saying #ThankYouRecyclingHeroes! to Recycling Workers in Your Community
Like us, we know you are grateful to those on the frontline of the fight against COVID-19, including recycling workers. In communities across our nation and world, nonessential businesses have closed, while essential [...]
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. [...]
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 COVID-19 Pandemic May Force Us to Rethink How We Celebrate America Recycles, but It Reinforces Just How Much Recycling Matters to Americans, Our Supply Chains, and Our Planet
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that now, more than ever, Americans view recycling as a valuable and essential servic[...]
Earth Month is almost here, and if you’re struggling to find new ways to inspire your community or workplace to celebrate and give back to our planet online, you’re not alone.
The global pandemic has reshaped everything from where and how we work, to how households are producing more recycling a[...]
As the pandemic continues, we’ve not only seen increased awareness around recycling as a valuable and essential service, but the U.S. supply chain has increased demand for recycled materials to support American manufacturing of new products and packaging.
What better time to position the unique [...]
Nationally Acclaimed Feet on the Street House-to-House Effort To Begin Monday, June 21, Helped By $118,605 Grant From Michigan EGLE & The Recycling Partnership
Washtenaw County, MI — Washtenaw Regional Resource Management Authority (WRRMA) is teaming with the Michigan Department of Environm[...]
Nationally Acclaimed Feet on the Street Cart-Tagging Campaign To Begin April 19, Helped by $14,400 Grant From Michigan EGLE & The Recycling Partnership
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — The City of Auburn Hills is teaming with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) and na[...]
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.
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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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Grant Applications are open through March 10, 2023
MICHIGAN COMMUNITIES, DO YOU NEED HELP WITH YOUR RECYCLING PROGRAM?
The Recycling Partnership, through funding from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) is offering grants to communities to enhance residential curbsi[...]
$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),[...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Stratham is the first New Hampshire municipality to be awarded a prestigious Residental Curbside Recycling Cart Grant from The Recycling Partnership
STRATHAM, N.H. (Jan. 19, 2021) – The Town of Stratham is on a roll with recycling, rolling out new lidded, wheeled recycling carts for residents this[...]
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 [...]
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[...]
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[...]
$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[...]
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 [...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Collaboration between The Recycling Partnership and Michigan EGLE continues in a third phase of grants available statewide to improve residential recycling
Grants available to increase participation and reduce contamination at recycling drop-off sites in Ohio.
Through a collaboration between the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) and The Recycling Partnership, Ohio communities have the opportunity to apply for a grant to improve their dr[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Residents Need to Choose Their Carts by August 4, 2020
The City of Broken Arrow, OK is pleased to announce a grant awarded by The Recycling Partnership to bring residential recycling carts and educational programming to the City. The Recycling Partnership is a national nonprofit working with communi[...]
FALLS CHURCH, VA (April 25, 2019) – The Recycling Partnership opened up grant applications today for the 2019 Residential Curbside Recycling Cart Grant Program, offering more funding and flexibility for advancing cart-based curbside recycling in communities across the United States through financ[...]
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[...]
Amazon, International Paper, and Starbucks Coffee Company have joined on as new funding partners of The Recycling Partnership, a rapidly growing national nonprofit that leverages corporate investment to transform recycling for good in hundreds of communities across the country. By supporting The Re[...]
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[...]
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business
Atlanta (CNN Business) – Early last year, Coca-Cola set an ambitious goal for itself: Collect and recycle the equivalent of every bottle or can it sells by 2030.
The company has committed to making its bottles and cans out of at least 50% recycled materi[...]
This press release was initially published by Orange County Government Florida.
Partnership with National Organizations Will Help Recycling Education
Orange County, Fla. (March 12, 2019) – Today the Orange County Board of County Commissioners approved a grant agreement with The Recycling Partne[...]
This press release was originally published and distributed by Public Affairs out of the Office of the City Manager for the City of Auburn, AL.
AUBURN, Ala.- The rollout of the single-stream recycling program is complete, and the City of Auburn is moving on to the next step of the process, e[...]
by Jill Martin, Recycling Today
Simplified communication decreases contamination and confusion among residents while increasing the capture rate for curbside recyclables.
Imagine trying to take a train, subway or bus system across a city where the signage, names and colors of the routes are inconsis[...]
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[...]
This press release was originally published by the World Wildlife Fund on June 12, 2017.
World Wildlife Fund Convenes Organizations to Enable A Global Market For Sustainable Materials Management
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today announced the Cascading Materials Vision, a platform that seeks to enabl[...]
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[...]
Officials To Look For Recycling Blunders; Offending Bins Will Be Tagged
Next month, residents may notice their recycling hasn’t been picked up, but it won’t be because they forgot to roll out the bin.
On August 7, town employees will begin an eight-week curbside engagement program on four of Dar[...]
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[...]
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[...]
This article originally appeared on Heineken USA’s blog on Aug. 2, 2017.
To the great people of Europe: thanks for sharing! Teams from the top soccer leagues in the world touched down in the U.S. this summer for the fifth installment of the International Champions Cup and the competition was[...]
The following op-ed was penned by The Recycling Partnership’s VP of Industry Collaboration Dylan de Thomas and was originally published by Resource Recycling. Read the original article here.
For a long time, the story of recycling has been purported to be simple – you just have to do X and i[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
2020 Impact Report Tells Story of the National Nonprofit Catalyzing Change to Move the U.S. Toward a Circular Economy
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 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[...]
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 Immediate Release
City is receiving $140,000 recycling grant to raise awareness of what can and cannot be recycled and how to recycle;
Newark one of seven cities across nation to receive recycling grant
Newark, NJ—September 25, 2019—Mayor Ras J. Baraka, Public Works Director Khalif Thomas, T[...]
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Charlotte, NC, July 24, 2019 – Alpek Polyester announces that it has joined The Recycling Partnership as an active member in support of the organization’s goals of increasing residential recycling rates and the need for increased [...]
The Recycling Partnership Launches West Coast Contamination Initiative with First $1 Million Donation
Amazon and Keurig Dr Pepper among funders supporting critical work in key area of the country to drive circular economy
(Falls Church, VA). Contamination costs the U.S. recycling system more than $3[...]
Falls Church, VA – MillerCoors announced today it is joining 44 leading brands, retailers and organizations to support The Recycling Partnership and its mission to create a sustainable recycling system in the U.S. that creates more circular economy jobs, more material recovery and stronger, more e[...]
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 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[...]
FALLS CHURCH, VA (May 14, 2019) – The Recycling Partnership today announced the appointment of a new chairwoman and two new members to its Executive Committee, as well as new committee chairs for its board governance, communications, and public affairs committees for 2019.
Kim Carswell, dir[...]
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[...]
Foundation’s $300,000 grant will boost recycling across the country
Falls Church, VA (April 24, 2019) – Alcoa Foundation announced today it is contributing $300,000 to The Recycling Partnership, the nonprofit change agent transforming recycling for good. The donation will help boost residentia[...]
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[...]
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[...]
