In recent years, the state of Vermont has been making positive advancements toward improving its statewide recycling rate. The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation announced in 2016 that statewide trash disposal had decreased 5%, while the recycling rate had increase from 33 – 35%. This is in part due to new recycling requirements that were introduced in July 2015 in Vermont’s Universal Recycling law. This Recycling law created better systems to incentivize and manage statewide recycling. For example, it banned the disposal of baseline recyclables and required solid waste transfer stations and haulers to pick these materials up. A collaboration with PPR can help the Green Mountain State maintain this upward momentum and take proactive steps toward improving its recycling rate by providing easy plastic waste disposal, which ensures both economic and environmental gains for Vermont-based companies.