The Recycling Partnership, formerly known as Curbside Value Partnership, is an independent,

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originally established by The Aluminum Association as a partnership with other material industries to prompt

curbside recycling Kerbside collection or curbside collection is a service provided to households, typically in urban and suburban areas, of collecting and disposing of household waste and recyclables. It is usually accomplished by personnel using specially built ...

Curbside Value Partnership History

Curbside Value Partnership's success varies per community but on average, the interaction observers a 23% increase in

recycling Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. The recovery of energy from waste materials is often included in this concept. The recyclability of a material depends on its ability to reacquire the p ...

volume and an 18% increase in participation. Curbside Value Partnership was selected to manage The Recycling Partnership. On July 1, 2014, The Recycling Partnership officially launched and selected three cities to seeds grant dollars in order to unlock public investment and dramatically increase recycling rates. The Recycling Partnership focuses on four key areas: growing collection capacity by supporting the switch to carts, supporting high quality education and outreach, providing technical assistance to ensure strategy across the material recovery supply chain, and champion building with local and state elected officials. The inaugural group of funding partners include

Alcoa Alcoa Corporation (an acronym for Aluminum Company of America) is a Pittsburgh-based industrial corporation. It is the world's eighth-largest producer of aluminum. Alcoa conducts operations in 10 countries. Alcoa is a major producer of primary ...

, Amcor, American Chemistry Council,

American Forest & Paper Association The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is the national trade association of the paper and wood products industry. AF&PA was formed on January 1, 1993, by the merger of the National Forest Product Association and the American Paper Ins ...

, Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers,

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, Carton Council of

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, SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association, and Sonoco. Curbside Value Partnership became independent of The Aluminum Association in January 2011, when it was incorporated in

Arlington, Virginia Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is situated in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from the District of Columbia, of which it was once a part. The county is ...

as a

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with an independent

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. Keefe Harrison is the Chief Executive Officer. Curbside Value Partnership is funded by members of The Aluminum Association and

Can Manufacturers Institute The Can Manufacturers Institute is a trade association of United States manufacturers and suppliers of metal cans. The Can Manufacturers Institute was chartered in 1938. At that time, it represented 39 companies, including can manufacturers and ot ...

including Alcoa, ARCO Aluminum,

Anheuser-Busch Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC is an American brewing company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 2008, it has been wholly owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (AB InBev), now the world's largest brewing company, which owns multiple glo ...

Metal Containers, Ball Corporation, Novelis, and REXAM.

References

External links

Official website
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