Informational Resources

The Pact has offered guidance, which was published internally for our members and are going to be publishing externally later this summer. For recyclability, we adhere to the Association of Plastic Recyclers’ design guidelines and have built on that a bit to add some additional guidance for flexibles, because there’s such variability in the U.S. […]

Leaders from the private sector, NGOs including the APR’s Chief Policy Officer, Kate Bailey, and local, state, and federal governments gathered in Washington, DC to outline a plan of action for tackling plastic pollution in the United States. “The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) is pleased to participate in this meeting and stand among national […]

Long story short: Connecticut has tons of material to recycle, but insufficient infrastructure to recycle it, and not enough incentives for companies to use recycled or recyclable packaging materials. That’s why the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), an international trade association exclusively dedicated to improving plastic recycling, strongly support HB6664 and specifically the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for […]

Steve Alexander is the CEO of the Association of Plastic Recyclers, which organizes the annual conference through its Resource Recycling subsidiary. “I think we have a tendency to make plastics recycling more complicated than it needs to be,” Alexander said. The plastics industry loves to point to lower greenhouse gas emissions when compared with other […]

APR urges the FTC to revise the recyclability and recycled content claims to provide stronger guidance to promote more accurate information that encourages greater consumer participation in recycling.

This week on the pod, APR’s VP of Communications and Public Affairs Kara Pochiro is joined by not one but two Kates- APR’s Chief Policy Officer Kate Bailey and APR’s Program Director Kate Eagles. Kara sits down with both Kates to discuss their recent APR blog post highlighting the importance of post-consumer resin (PCR) as […]

How does Sun Chemical support customers’ efforts to improve recyclability? We are active participants in several global cross-industry organizations, such as the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), which are focused on the future of packaging from a sustainable and recyclable design perspective. Members work together to understand and define the […]

The 2023 Plastics Recycling Conference is happening as a variety of factors continue to bring unprecedented attention to the business of plastics sustainability. Among those is a drumbeat of bills in state legislatures that shift responsibility for recycling management and funding, increase regulations on the recycling and packaging industries, and boost funding for recycling infrastructure […]

Attendees at the Plastics Recycling Conference delved into detailed discussions on the future of investments for secondary sortation, the importance of PCR market stability, collaborations in film recycling and more. Steve Alexander, president and CEO of the Association of Plastic Recyclers, said brands need to adopt a more circular philosophy when it comes to their […]