Keurig Green Mountain joins The Recycling Partnership

The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, has announced that Keurig Green Mountain Inc., Waterbury, Vermont, has becoming a funding member. According to The Recycling Partnership, both organizations share a vision to enact systemwide solutions to modern recycling challenges, working across materials and the supply chain.

“At Keurig, we’re taking meaningful steps to transition to a recyclable K-Cup pod well before our 2020 goal of having 100 percent of our pods be recyclable,” says Monique Oxender, chief sustainability officer, Keurig. “We’re also working beyond our product packaging to address challenges related to all small-item recovery in the recycling infrastructure and to improve end market demand for reclaimed materials. These efforts take cross-industry collaboration. The transformative work of The Recycling Partnership is a perfect match for our ambitions.”

“When Keurig called to say they were joining us on our journey to make recycling better, there was a palpable air of budding potential,” says Keefe Harrison, executive director of The Recycling Partnership. “That news marked an outstanding next step in a year full of promise, adding resources and energy to further our proven approach and grand plans for the future. Hang on everyone, because as action-packed and productive as we have been to date, we’re just getting started!”

Earlier this month The Recycling Partnership closed its latest round of residential single-stream cart grants. The nonprofit says new city partners will be announced in the weeks to come.