Delterra and The Circulate Initiative Release Report on the ROI of Behavior Change in Recycling

Delterra, an environmental nonprofit with its flagship initiative focused on building recycling systems in emerging economies, in collaboration with The Circulate Initiative, a nonprofit aimed at ending plastic pollution and advancing the circular economy, released its report, Making ‘Cents’ of Recycling Behavior: The Return on Investment of Spreading the Recycling Habit.

The report affirms how recycling behavior isn’t a nice-to-have; instead, it’s key to making the economics of recycling work. Analysis of Delterra’s projects in three distinctly different recycling environments in emerging markets – an informal settlement in Buenos Aires, a set of urban districts in Bali, and a mid-sized Argentinian city – shows that investing in behavior change pays for itself in recycling outcomes.