ExxonMobil Joins The Recycling Partnership with $1.5 Million Commitment

Global energy leader supports sustainability through proven recycling
solutions

FALLS CHURCH, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global leader ExxonMobil is the first energy company to join The
Recycling Partnership, a rapidly growing national nonprofit that
leverages corporate investment to transform recycling for good in
hundreds of communities across the country. Through support and
collaboration, ExxonMobil, along with 34 other companies including
Coca-Cola, Target, Amazon, Pepsi, Starbucks and P&G, is helping The
Recycling Partnership create a sustainable future through recycling.

“We’re pleased to welcome ExxonMobil to The Partnership,” says Keefe
Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership. “Their $1.5 million
investment in our organization shows a dedicated commitment to help us
deliver measurable and sustainable change to peoples’ everyday lives
through improved recycling system solutions. As our first energy
industry partner, ExxonMobil recognizes that collaboration, across and
within industries, is a key to building sustainable communities.”

In just four short years, The Recycling Partnership has reached 33
million households in 640 communities, which is almost a quarter of the
U.S. population through its efforts to improve recycling access and
increase the quality of recyclables. Since 2014, the nonprofit has
leveraged $29 million in infrastructure diverting a total of 115 million
pounds of recyclables from landfills, avoiding 164,000 metric tons of
greenhouse gas and saving 2.0 trillion BTUs.

“At ExxonMobil, we believe our fundamental purpose is to help improve
peoples’ lives and empower human progress,” says Dave Andrew, vice
president of sustainability at ExxonMobil. “We are committed to
providing sustainable solutions that make modern life possible so future
generations can thrive. Expanding community access to efficient
recycling systems is a priority for us, and we are very excited to be a
part of the great work The Recycling Partnership is doing in this area.”

The Recycling Partnership’s goal is to help every family in America
recycle and recycle well, so that the country can double its current
recycling rate and capture 22 million more tons of recyclables per year,
avoid 50 million metric tons of greenhouse gas annually, and save $250
million in contamination costs every year.

“Thanks to our partnership with global companies like ExxonMobil, which
recognize the value of supporting our sustainability mission, we will be
able to move closer to making the circular economy mainstream,” says
Harrison. “We will also be able to have a much larger impact on the
health of our planet and peoples’ everyday lives now and in the future.”

About The Recycling Partnership
The Recycling Partnership (www.recyclingpartnership.org)
is a national nonprofit organization that leverages corporate partner
funding to transform recycling for good in cities and towns all across
America. As the only organization in the country that engages the full
recycling supply chain from the corporations that manufacture products
and packaging to local governments charged with recycling to industry
end markets, haulers, material recovery facilities, and converters; The
Recycling Partnership positively impacts recycling at every step in the
process. By the end of 2018, The Recycling Partnership expects to have
served 750 communities with tools, resources and technical support,
provided 500,000 recycling carts, reached 40 million households, and
helped companies and cities invest more than $33 million in recycling
infrastructure.

Contacts

For The Recycling Partnership
Stacy Wilbur, 617-269-7171
[email protected]