The US is bad at recycling. Making businesses pay could boost the rate to 75% in some states, a study found. Presented by Deloitte.
This article is part of Insider's weekly newsletter on sustainability, written by Catherine Boudreau, senior sustainability reporter. Every now and again, I hear fellow Americans wonder whether they should move to Canada or Europe for the bennies — more-generous healthcare, cheaper universities, and paid family leave, for example.
British Columbia, Belgium, Spain, and the Netherlands all had recycling rates of 78% or higher in recent years when averaged across materials like paper, cardboard, aluminum cans, and plastic, according to an analysis published Thursday by, a group dedicated to improving recycling across the US. Quebec and Portugal have recycling rates in the 60% range.
"There's often spurious claims made about EPR, like it's just an ATM machine for brands or that it just charges dollars without improving the recycling system," Dylan de Thomas, the vice president of public policy and government affairs at The Recycling Partnership, told Insider."But when we looked at each of these individual countries, we saw consistent improvement after EPR was adopted.
The policy is gaining steam in the US, where municipal governments shoulder the costs of waste management, and the plastic-waste crisis regularly makes headlines.
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