The Recycling Partnership Sustainability Profile

Solving for Circularity

As a leading, national force for improving recycling, The Recycling Partnership puts private dollars to work in communities because we know that when we invest in a system to protect resources, empower sustainable action and unlock opportunity, everyone wins. We drive measurable sustainability through:

Grants, Technical Assistance, and Tools | Research, Measurement, and Best Practices | Partnerships | Scale

At The Recycling Partnership, we are solving for circularity.

We mobilize people, data, and solutions across the value chain to unlock the environmental and economic benefits of recycling and a circular economy. We work on the ground with thousands of communities to transform underperforming recycling programs; we partner with companies to achieve packaging circularity, increase access to recycled materials, and meet sustainability commitments; and we work with government to develop policy solutions to address the systemic needs of our residential recycling system and advance a circular economy. We foster public-private partnerships and drive positive change at every step of the recycling and circularity process.

Since 2014, we have diverted 770 million pounds of new recyclables from landfills, saved 968 million gallons of water, avoided more than 670,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases, and driven significant reductions in targeted contamination rates.

In 2022, The Recycling Partnership surpassed $240 million in environmental and economic value creation. Learn more about our cumulative and recent impacts in our 2022 Impact Report.