The NLCRC 2023 Priorities
The National Lubricant Container Recycling Coalition (NLCRC) recognizes the barriers facing the plastic lubricant packaging industry are larger than any one company can solve. The NLCRC’s vision is to develop a collaborative, market-sustaining program to reduce landfill disposal of lubricant oil containers and associated petroleum packaging and develop solutions that ensure responsible recycling of these materials.
In 2023, the NLCRC will continue to focus on the recently launched Atlanta Lubricant Container Recycling Pilot to further understand and optimize the logistics of lubricant container collection through processing. The NLCRC’s work involves addressing, assessing, and measuring the economic and market drivers for post-consumer recovery and recycling while gaining deeper insights into consumer waste disposal behaviors, and defining parameters for model development and future scalability.
Changing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation for packaging is emerging and represents an opportunity for the lubricant container industry to move forward under a unified approach and bring the change needed in the U.S. to recycle plastics such as lubricant containers. Given that, another focus for the NLCRC in 2023 is monitoring EPR legislation and taking proactive steps to support the transition to a circular economy, focusing on reducing the impact of lubricant containers on the environment while helping others in the value chain adapt to changing legislation.
Collaboration is a foundational component of the NLCRC and is reflected in our member base and within the coalition’s working groups uniting stakeholders across the plastic lubricant container value chain, including lubricant producers, plastics packaging producers, retailers, recyclers, and resin producers.
The National Lubricant Container Recycling Coalition or “NLCRC” is an industry-led technical coalition established by a committed group of industry leaders in lubricant and associated plastic packaging manufacturing, focused on establishing solutions for post-consumer recovery and recycling of plastic lubricant containers.
NLCRC members include Berry Global, Castrol, Chevron, CKS Packaging Inc., Graham Packaging, Nexus Circular, Pennzoil - Quaker State Company, Petroleum Packaging Council, Plastipak Packaging, Safety-Kleen, and Valvoline.
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