October 10, 2018 - APR PRESS RELEASE

2018 APR Recycling Demand Champion Campaign’s Year End Report Released, New Champion Companies Announced

Proactively Building Demand for Recycled Plastics

A program designed to expand market demand for recycled plastics has generated almost 7 million pounds of new demand in its first year. The APR Recycling Demand Champions Campaign, created by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) in 2017 to develop new markets for recycled plastics, announced the results at the APR annual meeting in St. Petersburg, FL. APR also announced several new participants who have committed to increase their use of postconsumer resin (PCR) in the upcoming year.

October 3, 2018 - Plastics News, Packing Materials

APR in the News

Two events focused on plastics recycling form strategic alliance

‘’The alliance will further boost plastics recycling initiatives, developments and projects on the global level."

October 3, 2018 - Packaging Europe

APR Member Highlight: Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison Wins LabelExpo 2018 Sustainability Award

October 1, 2018 - APR Press Release

APR Releases Plastics Sorting Best Management Practices Guide

Facilitating Consistent Data Collection Across Multiple Programs Nationwide

September 26, 2018 - Labels & Labeling

APR in the News

Association of Plastic Recyclers presents on circular economy

Steve Alexander, president and CEO of the Association of Plastic Recyclers, presented ‘APR: Your Conduit to the Circular Economy’, in the TLMI Ecovillage at Labelexpo Americas 2018.

Bale sorts, waste composition studies, plastics sorts, and other studies are a regular practice for MRFs, municipalities, and relcaimers, as well as other organizations. Although beneficial information is gathered from these sorts and studies, the process is not standardized, making it difficult to compare results. The APR Plastics Sorting Best Man...

September 21, 2018 - Packaging World

APR Member Highlight:  The Coca-Cola Company + Indorama Ventures

Coca-Cola's Simply Orange more sustainable, still structurally sound

September 13, 2018 - PETnology

APR Member Highlight: PepsiCo, Inc.

PepsiCo to more than triple recycled content in its plastic bottles to 50%P in the European Union by 2030

September 12, 2018 - Plastics News

APR Member Highlight: Phoenix Technologies

Brand owners should shoot for 50 percent recycled PET

September 12, 2018 - Plastics Recycling Update

APR Member Highlight:  Klöckner Pentaplast

Major packaging company announces goals

August 22, 2018 - Plastics Recycling Update

APR in the News

Quantifying environmental benefits of recycled plastic

The life cycle inventory research is “a critical tool to utilize and market the value of recycled materials.”

August 20, 2018 - Recycling Today

APR Member Highlight: Unilever

Embracing the beauty of imperfection

Information gained from Life Cycle Inventories (LCI) provide the data to calculate the emissions of greenhouse gases. This information is critical to understand the true environmental impact of recycled plastics. The soon to be published 2018 Life Cycle Assessment includes updates to the PET and HDPE information from the 2010 LCI, with the addition...

August 6, 2018 - The Seattle Times

APR in the News

Chemists in search of their Holy Grail: a plastic designed to die

“If you can’t sort properly, no matter what it is, it is just trash.”

August 1, 2018 - Plastics News

APR in the News

Straws present 
recycling challenges

Can plastic straws be effectively recycled? 

July 17, 2018 - Plastics Information Europe, Greener Package, Waste360, Resource, EPPM, Waste Management Review, Bunting Magnetics Europe, Earth911

APR in the News

European and US organisations define “recyclable”

Plastics recycling organisations in Europe and the US have agreed on a definition of the term “recyclable” in order to provide a consistent metric in efforts towards a circular economy.

July 12, 2018 - APR Press Release

International Plastic Recycling Groups Announce Global Definition of “Plastics Recyclability”

Two of the leading global international recycling organizations have developed a global definition governing the use of the term “recyclable” as is relates to plastics packaging and products.

July 11, 2018 - Recycling Product News

APR in the News

U.S. recycling industry united on goal of addressing key industry issues

Improving quality of the recycling stream and increasing demand for recyclables in the manufacture of new products focus of industry collaborative

June 27, 2018 - GlobeNewswire

APR Member Highlight: UPM Raflatac

The shape of sustainable labels is circular: UPM Raflatac announces APR-recognized wash-off film labels with recycled liners for Americas and Asia Pacific

June 20, 2018 - Plastics Recycling Update, Recycling Today

APR in the News

Flexible packaging project names sorting partner

MRFF has found a MRF