RESOURCES

Check out these useful resources below to learn more!

Sustainability

• Sustainable Packaging Coalition
• Operation Clean Sweep
• Federal Trade Commission – Green Guides
• Plastic Loose-Fill Council
• Industrial Council for Packaging and Environment (INCPEN)
• Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC)

Recycling, Landfills, & Waste Management

• Recoup
• Paper Cup Recovery & Recycling Group
• Simply Cups - Paper Recycling Scheme
• DS Smith - Paper Recycling
• James Cropper - Paper Recycling
• EPS & XPS Polystyrene Foam Recycling
• British Plastics Federation - Recycling
• Environmental Protection Agency — Landfills 
• How Stuff Works — How Landfills Work
• Plastics Europe
• The Association of Plastic Recyclers
• Foodservice Packaging Recovery Toolkit
• Biodegradable Products Institute
• Recycle Now
• Waste & Resource Action Programme (WRAP)
• Din Certco
• Vincotte
• Compostingcouncil.org
• Dart Recycling YouTube Playlist
• Dart CARE Program
• Dart Recycla-Pak Program

More About the Foodservice Packaging Industry

• Foodservice Packaging Association
• The Packaging Federation
• British Plastics Federation
• Pack2Go Europe
• BBIA - Bio-Based and Biodegradable Industries Association
• Foodservice Packaging Institute
• Plastics Foodservice Packaging Group
• Polystyrene Packaging (pdf)

Plastics 101

• European Plastics Converters
• Plastics Make it Possible
• PlasticsMythBuster.org
• PlasticsInfo.org

Plastics Industry Resources

• Wrap - Plastics
• Plastics Industry Association
• Society of the Plastics Industry
• Plastics and Chemicals Industry
• Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA)
• Association of Plastic Manufacturers in Europe
• Plastics NZ
• National Association for PET Container Resources
• Positively PET

Styrene

• You Know Styrene
• The Styrene Information and Research Centre

Life-Cycle Inventories

• Is Paper Better than Plastic? (PDF)
• Life Cycle Inventory of Polystyrene Foam, Bleached Paperboard, and Corrugated Paperboard Foodservice Products: Executive Summary
• Life Cycle Inventory of Polystyrene Foam, Bleached Paperboard, and Corrugated Paperboard Foodservice Products: Highlights
• Life Cycle Inventory of Polystyrene Foam, Bleached Paperboard, and Corrugated Paperboard Foodservice Products: Dart Insights
• Life Cycle Inventory Greenhouse Gas Emissions Study Reusable vs. Disposable Cups (PDF)
• Are Aluminum and Glass Better Than PET? (PDF)

Litter & Marine Debris

• 2015 Anacostia Watershed Litter Survey
• Marinelittersolutions.com