Dive summary:

• A webinar on Dec. 19 conducted by The American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN) will look at how America’s largest 100 cities deal with recycling.
• The study looks at the achievements and downfalls of programs across the nation to find ways that similar programs can be implemented in smaller cities.
• AMERIPEN is also working with local and state-level partnerships to help implement the new programs.

From the article:

The 100-city survey is one step in a multi-year Recovery Team initiative, which started by compiling research and industry knowledge across all phases of the packaging recovery system. This information is now available to the public in an interactive web-based tool called the Product Recovery Knowledge Map (PRKM). In the next steps of the initiative, the Recovery Team will move from data collection to action, promoting best practice approaches and helping develop policies for improving materials recovery systems throughout the U.S. ...