02/26/2018

Recycling Success

APR is widening the reach of the program and adding more companies

Less than five months after launching an initiative to encourage manufacturers to recycle consumer plastic, the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) is reporting signs of major success.

In October, APR announced its Recycling Demand Champions Campaign, which aims to get large companies to reuse consumer plastics in “work in process” (WIP) contexts. The idea was to encourage the creation of durable goods commonly used in factories—think wastebaskets or pallets—but APR says the initiative was so successful that it’s expanding both its mission and the base of companies it’s working with.

“Although the initial phase of the campaign focused on WIP durable goods, such as pallets and crates, we quickly realized the opportunity to expand the program to include any new application for [post-consumer resin, or PCR],” noted Liz Bedard, who’s in charge of APR’s Rigid Plastic Recycling Program, in a news release.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Associations Now.