Partner Organizations

Northwest Organizations

There are a number of groups and organizations in the Pacific Northwest that join WSRA in working on waste reduction and recycling in the state of Washington. Some of these groups include:

• Association of Oregon Recyclers: a nonprofit trade association focused on advancing recycling and waste prevention in Oregon.
• Northwest Product Stewardship Council: coalition of government organizations in Washington and Oregon working with the waste and recycling industry, consumers, manufacturers, and others to connect producers with the costs association with the end-of life management of their products and to provide incentives for reducing waste, increasing recyclability, and reducing the toxicity of products.
• Northwest Earth Institute: provides a framework to talk about our relationship with the planet and to share in discovering new ways to live, work, create, and consume
• Washington Organic Recycling Council: supports–via education, research, and advocacy–public and private efforts to reclaim, reuse, and recycle organic materials, process organic materials in an environmentally and economically sustainable manner, and promote beneficial end uses
• Washington Refuse & Recycling Association: statewide trade association representing Washington’s diverse and multifaceted solid waste handling industry
• Zero Waste Washington: advocates for products designed and produced to be health, safe, and continually recycled and reused

National Organizations

• Container Recycling Institute (CRI): nonprofit organization focused on making North America a global model for the collection and quality recycling of packaging materials
• National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR): trade association focused on promoting the introduction and use of PET packaging; facilitating its recycling; and communicating the attributes of the PET container as an environmentally sustainable package
• National Recycling Coalition (NRC): nonprofit organization focused on the promotion and enhancement of recycling in the United States
• Steel Recycling Institute (SRI): nonprofit trade association with the mission of promoting and sustaining steel can recycling
• US Composting Council: national, nonprofit trade and professional organization promoting the recycling of organic materials through composting