Recycling Reinvented expanding current mission beyond EPR to include supportive policies
Recycling Reinvented, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization created to help increase recycling rates in the U.S. through extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging and printed paper, is expanding its mission.
In the last two years, Recycling Reinvented has worked to introduce legislation in several states and commission a cost-benefit study for Minnesota to show how EPR could increasing recycling rates and find cost efficiencies on a statewide level. Its two staff of Paul Gardner and Melissa Walsh Innes, former legislators in Minnesota and Maine, respectively, and its board have reached out to hundreds of stakeholders nationwide from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.