What can an expert teach you about our national recycling system and how we can collectively improve it? Ask them!
The U.S. needs a more robust and efficient national recycling system, but the current state of affairs and necessary changes can be confusing, to say the least. Prior to the pandemic, the U.S. recycling rate hovered at around 35 percent. Since then complexity and challenges have only grown with the rise of single-use items and their disposal, increased residential waste and strained city and state budgets that fund our recycling programs. How can we improve the patchwork of recycling structures across the United States? What policies are needed to build resilience into our recycling systems? How should companies be thinking about and engaging with these structures and policies? Where do I even begin?
Bring any and all of your questions to this interactive Q&A with resident recycling expert, Dylan de Thomas, VP of Industry Collaboration at the Recycling Partnership.