Advocacy
A national voice with an implementation lens.
NRC advocates for recycling and sustainable materials management by connecting policy conversations to the operational experience of communities, state organizations and practitioners.
Credible advocacy should be technically grounded, open about tradeoffs and useful to implementation.
Policy that can work
Intent matters. Implementation decides.
The coalition is positioned to surface the realities that get missed when policy is designed far from collection routes, contracts, processors, markets and community programs.
Develop positions
Create and modernize NRC policy statements with input from experienced stakeholders.
Engage stakeholders
Use the coalition to test assumptions, hear differing perspectives and understand operational effects.
Communicate clearly
Help members and decision-makers understand the economic and environmental value of credible recycling.
Fight greenwashing
Support honest claims and systems that deliver measurable material outcomes.
Practitioner-informed
Better policy starts with better questions.
Who implements it? What infrastructure exists? What changes for local programs? What happens to markets? NRC helps those questions surface before policy is final.
Membership
Build the system with us.
Join the practitioners, organizations and state networks working to make recycling stronger, more credible and more connected.