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
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