ISRI Scrap Specifications Circular 2012
Guidelines for: Nonferrous Scrap, Ferrous Scrap, Glass Cullet, Paper Stock, Plastic Scrap, Electronics Scrap, Tire Scrap. - EFFECTIVE 1/19/2012
Click here for printable PDF

RISI - Resource Information Systems Inc.
RISI is the leading information provider for the global forest products industry. Their mission is to create the highest quality information for and about the global forest products industry and deliver it to customers as part of value-added solutions.
Click here for website

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
31 million tons of plastic waste were generated in 2010. The recycling rate for different types of plastic varies greatly, resulting in an overall plastics recycling rate of only 8 percent, or 2.4 million tons in 2010. According to the American Chemistry Council, about 1,800 US businesses handle or reclaim post-consumer plastics.
Read more here...

Resin Identification Coding System
Created in 1988 by the Society of Plastics Industry, Inc., the code system was developed to meet recyclers' needs while providing manufacturers a consistent, uniform system that could apply nationwide. Because municipal recycling programs traditionally have targeted packaging—primarily bottles and containers—the resin coding system offered a means of identifying the resin content of bottles and containers commonly found in the residential waste stream.
Click here for printable PDF