Utilizing Your Member Benefits
Make the most of your APR membership—see where you can find all of APR’s members-only content and opportunities.
Make Connections
APR members span the entire plastics recycling value chain, from design to collection to recovery to remanufacturing. Keep up with customers and business partners at our member meetings, and take advantage of our tools to extend your network.
Meet the APR Membership
Attend Member Meetings
Join us three times a year—in March, June, and October—to network and hear about what we’re working on.
Browse the Member Directory
APR members span the entire industry. See member companies and contacts in the member directory.
Expand Your Reach
Find Buyers or Sellers
Anyone can search our Buyers and Sellers Directory, but only APR members can be listed. If your company sells recycled, list your commodities and resins here.
Download Communications Tools
In addition to your member badges, APR provides resources such as infographics and talking points that your company can use in its own content creation.
Make an Impact
Your APR membership amplifies the voice of plastics recycling in North America and around the world. See what we’re doing to ensure recyclers have a seat at the table and how we make it easier for members throughout the value chain to do their part.
Understand Advocacy & Compliance
Policies to Improve Plastics Recycling
Your APR membership supports our work developing, advocating for, and implementing effective policy solutions to improve plastics recycling.
APR Global Catalog
Use your member login to get complimentary access to this tool, which lets you compare recyclability requirements for different countries and regions.
Gain Confidence & Credibility
Does your company design plastic packaging or products?
APR members save thousands of dollars on:
APR Design® Training
Inspire, align, and empower cross-functional teams to design for recycling. Explore our options, many of which can be tailored to your company’s unique needs.
APR Design® Recognition
Make sure your recyclable products or technologies gets the recognition they deserve! APR members receive discounts on APR Design® Recognition application fees.
Stay Up to Date
APR keeps you tapped in to what’s happening in the world of plastics recycling, from Extended Producer Responsibility legislation to the research and testing that goes into the APR Design® Guide.
Policy Updates
APR monitors recycling-related policy and updates member companies at member meetings, in newsletters, and upon request.
Design® Recognition Webinars
Live and recorded webinars give APR members early access to the latest developments in recyclable packaging components.
Newsletters
APR newsletters keep members tapped in to APR’s technical, policy, and other advancements in plastics recycling. Check your inbox for:
- The Wrap: Our weekly news roundup, delivered on Mondays
- Tech Talk: Monthly updates on technical committees and working groups, the APR Design® Guide, APR PCR Certification, and other technical announcements and events
- Policy Perspectives: policy updates every other month focused on APR’s priorities of design, collection, and remanufacturing. legislative and policy updates
- Industry Insights: General announcements and resources every other month, including blogs, new members and APR Design ® Recognition recipients, and meeting information
Member Meeting Materials
Whether you missed an APR Member Meeting or attended but want a particular presentation, we have you covered with notes and presentations from previous APR member meetings.
Get Involved
APR members often cite committee participation as one of the most important aspects of their membership. While committee members are chosen via election, working groups are typically open to volunteers from the APR membership.
Keep an eye on our monthly Tech Talk newsletter for new openings and other working group updates.
How to Obtain A Member Login and Get On Our Email List
Please reach out to your company’s primary contact—this is the only person with permissions to add and remove individual users from your company membership. Primary contacts can find instructions for adding new users here on our member help page, including this downloadable document.
Creating a user profile under your company’s membership not only provides you with an individual login that you can use to access members-only content, but it also adds you to our distribution list for APR newsletters and other emails on upcoming events and programs. (You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time.)
If you don’t know who your company’s primary contact is, or you cannot reach your primary contact, please contact us.