<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Just Released by The Recycling Partnership</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif">The 2020 State of Curbside
Recycling Report</span></u><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif">   unveils strategies to help the U.S. Recycling
System unlock its full potential.</span></p>

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these clear, integrated strategies:</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif">Substantially
greater support of community recycling programs with capital funding technical
assistance, and efforts to strengthen and grow local political commitment to
recycling services.</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif">New
and enhanced state and federal recycling policies.</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif">Continued
investment expansion in material processing and end markets.</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif">Resident
education and engagement to help citizens recycle more, better.</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif">Continued
innovation in the collection, sorting and general recyclability of materials,
including the building of flexibility and resiliency to add new materials into
the system.</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif">Broader
stakeholder engagement in achieving all elements of true circularity, in which
the fate of all materials in not just intended to be recycled, but that they
are designed, collected, and actually turned into something new.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Click here to see the <a href="https://recyclingpartnership.org/stateofcurbside/?fbclid=IwAR2txUsBAYSynwFRgOFileH7mOQ_AZ4INNqTTfZXVXUVHWc3RZSXFlKxJDI">full report</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><div><img src="cid:ii_k73ksxb40" alt="image.png" width="417" height="482"><br></div></div>