Informational Resources

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) envisions a world with a circular economy for plastic goods – one in which companies manufacture recyclable products and consumers buy products made from recycled materials.

The Frontline program, “Plastic Wars,” revisited old, anti-recycling messages and ignored many recent successes of the plastic recycling industry fueled by technology and innovation. The program highlighted a number of challenges facing the plastic recycling industry, but failed to show how APR and our member companies are taking on — and overcoming — these challenges. […]

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) contracted with Franklin Associates, a division of Eastern Research Group (ERG), to examine the impact of switching from plastic packaging, including rigid bottles and containers, caps, closures, bags, flexibles, and films, to function-similar and adequate metal, glass, and paper/cardboard materials.

This report provides a detailed overview of the recycling of injection stretch blow molded polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles and jars in the United States (US), and a general summary of the recycling of PET thermoforms during 2018.

This National Postconsumer Plastic Bag and Film Recycling Report details the amount of plastic bags and film recovered in 2018, in the U.S., for recycling.

This 2018 study was a cooperative effort between the Plastics Division of ACC and APR with the goal of quantifying the amount of HDPE and PP bottles collected for recycling, as well as the rate of recycling of those bottles. This study includes postconsumer recycling values and comments for PET.

This Global Recycling Day, people across the world are celebrating recycling as the key to sustainability. Plastics at the end of their useful life are not waste, but a tremendous environmental and economic opportunity. As recyclers, we capture this valuable resource and return it to the circular economy. We are the ones who close the […]

The 2018 National Post-Consumer Non-Bottle Rigid Plastic Recycling Report is the twelfth annual report on pounds of post-consumer non-bottle rigid plastics—packaging and non-packaging—recovered for recycling in the US. Research for this report was conducted by MORE Recycling (MORE) for the Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council.

PET thermoforms provide many benefits to fresh food including food safety, shelf life extension to reduce food waste, transportation protection and product transparency. Yerecic Label is committed to being a thought leader in the development of an industry wide transition to packaging that is compatible with recycling.