Guide to Increasing Recycling Supply

Overview

Recycling supply and demand issues are primary components to recycling market development. For many years, increasing the demand for recycled materials has taken precedence over supply issues. The Northeast Recycling Council's (NERC) Board of Directors and Advisory Members recognized the need to refocus on supply side issues and created the Supply Side Policy Committee. The Committee's primary role is to identify and discuss strategies used by different stakeholders to increase the supply of recycled materials and to share this information by creating the Guide to Increasing Recycling Supply. 

NERC would like to thank the initial review team for their untiring efforts in editing all sections of the Guide. The review team included: Shannon Crawford, Waste Management; Michael Noel, TOMRA; Mary Ann Remolador, previous Assistant Director, NERC; and Justin Short, Recycled Material Association.