Tools to Expand Rigid Plastics Recycling

The ever-expanding variety of new and creative types of plastic packaging can create collection and recovery difficulties for community recycling programs and material recovery facilities (MRFs).   The Association of Postconsumer Plastics Recyclers (APR) is working to ease those concerns with the establishment of new model bale specifications for the collection of “Bulky Rigid Plastics” and “Tubs and Lids.”