Markets & Supply Chains
Foster sustainable materials management practices in the recycling industry through supply chain and market efficiency, analysis, and development.
From Market Analysis to Policy Research, Our Consulting Expertise Maximizes Your Impact in Recycling and Materials Management.
At RRS, our field experience in recycling, recovery, and composting operations of all kinds, gives us the analytical capabilities to document, evaluate, and determine the feasibility of a variety of options. Our fact-based, data-oriented approach incorporates data collection and modeling techniques developed over our 30-year history. This data approach coupled with our relationships with key players in the waste management industry and their counterparts in various levels of government, non-government organizations, and academic communities, position the team at RRS as a nationwide leader in market and supply chain efficiency.
Helping you identify materials, improve infrastructure, enhance technology, and bring new value propositions to market.
Our team has experience at every link in the supply chain, all the while maintaining a keen awareness of how and where materials enter their next circular chain.
Our modeling methods have been vetted and tested against field activities, assuring their relevance to real solutions for real problems. Our techniques and tools range from generation models for various types of wastes and recycled commodities, national scope databases showing program information and generation data for the United States and Canada, geographical information systems (GIS), and other infographic approaches to the presentation of data, and performance information for various types of solid waste and recycling infrastructure.
We know that private industry impacts the recovery value chain at several points including product design, consumer engagement, and material recovery. Today’s consumers expect companies to be an active participant in sustainability throughout the product and packaging lifecycle. RRS assists brands, manufacturers, processors, and other businesses in meeting these demands through design for recyclability/compostability, sustainability planning and tracking, supply chain assessments, and stakeholder engagement.
We offer recycling gap analysis, feasibility analysis, supply chain development, material flow mapping, supply potential assessment, and more.
