Recycle grocery rigid plastics

Divert waste, reduce costs and experience potential new revenue

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Divert Waste

Help achieve waste reduction goals by recovering recyclable material.

Reduce Costs

Remove bulky recyclable waste from your compactors and reduce your disposal costs.

Potential Revenue

Generate potential recycling revenue by providing valuable feedstock - “recycled content” - for consumer packaging on store shelves.

Publix Super Markets

“Making it easy and simple for the associates to recycle rigid plastics, is the right thing to do. Everybody feels good when they are doing the right thing. As we’ve grown, we continue to create new processes that are scalable and sustainable to meet business needs.”

Kim Brunson,
Recycling and Solid Waste Manager.

Association of Plastic Recyclers

“Recyclable rigid plastics, of the type found ‘behind the counter’ in grocery stores, provide valuable feedstock to plastic reclaimers selling to companies who want to include recycled content in their products.”

Steve Alexander,
Executive Director

KW Plastics

“What grocers might see in their backroom today as trash, is a treasure for us. Recycled rigid plastics from grocery backrooms quite possibly could end up on store shelves as new packaging next month.”

Stephanie Baker,
Director of Market Development

Plastic Recycling Film and Wrap

Everything you need to know about plastic film – recycling for your home and business

Recycle Grocery Plastics is a program developed by The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR)
1001 G Street, NW / Suite 500 West
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202-316-3046
www.plasticsrecycling.org

For General Program Inquiries:
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