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Do you Buy Recycled? Make thoughtful purchases that actually help the planet

Today's guest blog is authored by Megan Byers of NERC Advisory Member The Association of Plastic Recyclers. The original post can be found here.

Did you know that recycling doesn't end at the bin?

If you're like most people, you probably already recycle your empty containers at home and on the go.

Thank you! Recycling is such an important step to keep valuable materials out of the landfill and in the economy, preventing pollution while creating green jobs.

Now it's time to complete the cycle of recycling. It's just as important to buy products made with recycled content as it is to recycle.

Our consumer choices have an impact far beyond the register. We simply have to stop extracting so much from the Earth. To unlock all those environmental and economic benefits that come with recycling, your recyclables have to transform into new products.

In other words… you already recycle. Now it's time to Buy Recycled.

A $17B Investment in Recycling Will Leverage a System That Delivers Tons

Today's guest blog is authored by Keefe Harrison, CEO of NERC Advisory Member The Recycling Partnership. The original post can be found here.

It’s no secret that we at The Recycling Partnership like data. Our commitment to building and sharing robust analyses with the public and private sectors to drive recycling improvements is core to our mission. The release of our newest report is part of that push to help the world envision a successful U.S. recycling system more clearly. “Paying it Forward – How Investments in Recycling Will Pay Dividends” outlines what it will take to create the healthy system we need, and what that commitment will provide us in return.

With demand for sustainable packaging and corporate ESG pledges on the rise, “Paying It Forward” offers new insight into investments needed for recycling to reach…

What the infrastructure plan fails to reimagine

Today's guest blog, authored by Suz Okie, is reprinted courtesy of GreenBiz.

“This is the moment to reimagine.” Among the countless details, proposals and impassioned appeals within the

A Big Welcome to Our New Advisory Members

Today's blog celebrates the essential support and input provided by an astounding number of NERC Advisory Members that have joined during the current fiscal year.

More organizations than ever before have signed on as NERC Advisory Members this fiscal year. The generosity and commitment of NERC’s Advisory Members has been significant in helping the organization to be a vigorous and successful one. The presence and participation of a diverse set of members expands the table at which ideas are debated.

Most Benefactors and Sustaining Advisory Members are highlighted in the Member Spotlight section of the NERC website, as well as in NERC’s monthly Email Bulletin. Since July 1, 2020, two companies have joined the ranks of Benefactors:

Right to repair is on the way

Today's guest blog is authored by Suz Okie of GreenBiz Group. The original post can be found here.

In the waning months of 2020, the European Union took ambitious steps to address the more than 12 million tons of electronic waste the bloc produces annually. Acknowledging that "Europe is living well beyond planetary boundaries," a European Parliament vote

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