Recycling Initiative
After three decades of increasingly robust recycling knowledge, systems, and infrastructure, the time has nearly arrived for breakthrough policies to dramatically expand recycling of consumer products, to 60% or more.
Future 500 has a strong record of success in recycling. Our team members drove the stakeholder processes that developed the world's most cost-effective recycling systems for consumer packages, motor oil, tires, and computers, among other products and materials.
Today, by drawing together diverse interests in fields like computers, cell phones, electronics, and food packaging, we can help accomplish much more.
A Common Platform: Full-Circle Recycling
The Recycling and Product Stewardship Initiative is building common ground among multiple stakeholders for a powerful set of "full circle" recycling policies that most can agree on, including:
- Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) systems that charge rate payers by unit of waste
- Incentive and Award Systems, like Recycle Bank, that offer coupons, rewards, & incentives for every pound recycled
- Tipping Fee Surcharges that impose per ton fee at the landfill or incinerator
- Model Programs that help improve a variety of recycling options that meet different needs - curbside, workplace, special venue, etc.
- Advertising and Marketing that is proven to change behavior among hard-to-reach consumers
- Funding Systems that finance a market basket of recycling opportunities, and drive large-scale rates of collection on materials of all types
NOTE: The organizations and individuals shown are among the key stakeholders we have identified in this issue area. These stakeholders, many of whom we have engaged, are highly diverse, and often take very different positions from one another. We include them here as a guide to some of the most influential stakeholders on these issues. Their presence in this list does NOT imply any formal association with one another or with Future 500.
Participation in the Recycling Initiative enables you to understand and, if you desire, engage with as many as 50 product stewardship and recycling organizations and initiatives and multi-stakeholders networks such as National Recycling Coalition; corporate watchdogs including GrassRoots Recycling Network, Basil Action Network, Clean Computer Campaign, Greenpeace, SACOM, and SOMO; social investor groups whose influence spans the sector such as As You Sow and ICCR; coalitions working for fees and deposits in 10 states and up to 30 cities; powerful new alliances such as The Coalition for Recycling; free market advocates such as Competitive Enterprise Institute; key foundation funders; and the many regional and issue-specific organizations and campaigns, each of which fills a unique niche in the overall movement
The Recycling Initiative process has been ongoing for more than two years, and has reached an advanced stage. If interested in participating, contact us for information.
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