How We Work

Championing Carton Recycling Through Industry Collaboration

Supported and funded by the four leading food and beverage carton manufacturers – Elopak, PactivEvergreen, SIG and Tetra Pak – the Carton Council is a nonprofit trade organization dedicated to expanding carton recycling.

Through partnerships across the recycling value chain, we engage in a range of initiatives to grow carton recycling access and participation, fostering a circular economy.

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Collaboration Overview

How We Support carton Recycling

  • Strategic guidance to help MRFs understand how cartons are moving through their facilities
  • Strategic guidance to provide recommendations for efficiently sorting cartons
  • Infrastructure grants to help MRFs best sort cartons
  • Connecting MRFs with end markets that buy and recycle cartons
  • Education grants to help MRFs and communities empower their residents to recycle cartons
  • Infrastructure grants to end markets to help develop carton recyclers
  • Support in connecting MRFs with end markets who buy cartons
  • Fostering school carton recycling programs through grants, tools and resources
  • Research to help understand consumer awareness and behavior around recycling
  • Address locator to help consumers identify carton recycling access in their community
  • Mail-in program to allow those without local access to recycle their cartons

A Team of Experts to Drive Results

Our team is dedicated to keeping food and beverage cartons out of landfills.

Leadership

Jordan Fengel

Executive Director, Jordan.Fengel@cartoncouncil.org

Lynn Dyer

VP of Sustainability

Carla Fantoni

VP of Engagement Strategy

Jason Pelz

VP of Recycling Projects

How We Work

Collaboration is a key component of Our strategy

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Our progress in carton recycling since our formation in 2009 has been driven by collaboration with stakeholders across the recycling value chain, including local communities, governments, MRFs, end markets, schools, industry organizations, nonprofits and companies.

This partnership enhances recycling infrastructure and consumer awareness, and we are grateful to all our collaborators who share our recycling passion.

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