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| 1884 || Glass || || An official recycling system for bottles with refundable deposits is established in Sweden.<ref name="Scrap Recycling – recognized as one of the world’s first green industries…"/> || {{w|Sweden}}
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| 1896 || || || "The first major recycling center was started by the Benedetto family in New York City, where they collected rags, newspaper, and trash with a pushcart" <ref>{{cite book |title=Politics and Public Policy |edition=Barbara Wejnert |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=5KFOn4Z0ZGYC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=%22The+first+major+recycling+center+was+started+by+the+Benedetto+family+in+New+York+City,+where+they+collected+rags,+newspaper,+and+trash+with+a+pushcart%22&source=bl&ots=LeToeCxiNB&sig=ACfU3U3NBiKOwGMaVD7Excr7vhBraIZLWQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBo_WZ59HnAhUIG7kGHX3FA_YQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22The%20first%20major%20recycling%20center%20was%20started%20by%20the%20Benedetto%20family%20in%20New%20York%20City%2C%20where%20they%20collected%20rags%2C%20newspaper%2C%20and%20trash%20with%20a%20pushcart%22&f=false}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 1897 || || Facility || A materials recovery facility is buit in {{w|New York City}}, where trash is sorted at “picking yards” and separated into various grades of paper, metals, and carpet. Burlap bags, twine, rubber and even horse hair are also sorted for recycling and reuse.<ref name="A Brief Timeline of the History of Recycling"/> || {{w|United States}}
| 1986 || || Policy || Rhode Island becomes the first U.S. state to mandate recycling, including some plastic bottles and containers.<ref name="The History of Plastics Recycling"/> || {{w|United States}}
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| 1987 || || || {{w|Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries}} <ref>{{cite web |title=ISRI Time Capsule: ISRI Is Born |url=https://www.isri.org/news-publications/news-details/2017/01/04/isri-time-capsule-isri-is-born |website=isri.org |accessdate=14 February 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 1988 || || Statistics || The number of [[w:Kerbside collection|curbside]] recycling programs in the United States increases to about 1,050.<ref name="A Brief Timeline of the History of Recycling"/> || {{w|United States}}
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| 1989 || || || {{w|Center for the Development of Recycling}} <ref>{{cite web |title=Center for the Development of Recycling |url=https://www.recyclestuff.org/html/about.html |website=recyclestuff.org |accessdate=14 February 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 1990 || || Policy || {{w|McDonald’s}} announces phasing out use of Styrofoam containers. The 20th-anniversary theme for Earth Day is recycling.<ref>{{cite web|title=McDonald’s Trials to Stop Using Styrofoam Cups|url=http://www.care2.com/causes/mcdonalds-trials-to-stop-using-styrofoam-cups.html|website=care2.com|accessdate=16 August 2017}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
| 1998 || || Policy || {{w|Extended producer responsibility}} programs (EPR) start being adopted in {{w|Switzerland}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=A comparison of electronic waste recycling in Switzerland and in India|url=http://oldweb.empa.ch/plugin/template/empa/*/51479/---/l=2|website=empa.ch|accessdate=16 August 2017}}</ref> || {{w|Switzerland}}
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| 1998 || Waste recycling || Organization || Ukranian {{w|state enterprise}} {{w|Ukrecoresursy}}launches with the purpose to provide waste recycling services.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ukrecoresursy |url=http://eco-invest.org.ua/en/partners_partners/#.XkTN7Gj0mUm |website=eco-invest.org.ua/ |accessdate=13 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Recycling Around the World A-Z: Ukraine |url=https://www.recyclingbins.co.uk/blog/recycling-around-the-world-ukraine/ |website=recyclingbins.co.uk |accessdate=13 February 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Ukraine}}
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| 1999 || || Policy || {{w|Extended producer responsibility}} programs start adoption in {{w|Denmark}}, the {{w|Netherlands}} and {{w|Norway}}. || {{w|Denmark}}, {{w|Netherlands}}, {{w|Norway}}
| 2001 || || Organization || {{w|TerraCycle}} || {{w|United States}}
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| 2002 || {{w|Textile recycling}} || || {{w|Carpet America Recovery Effort}} <ref>{{cite web |title=Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) |url=https://www.recyclingproductnews.com/company/5490/carpet-america-recovery-effort-care |website=recyclingproductnews.com |accessdate=14 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=CARE 2012 Annual Report |url=https://carpetrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Carpet-America-Recovery-Effort-2012-Annual-Report.pdf |website=carpetrecovery.org |accessdate=14 February 2020}}</ref> ||{{w|United States}}
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| 2002 || || || "But in 2002, New York City, an early municipal recycling pioneer, found that its much-lauded recycling program was losing money, so it eliminated glass and plastic recycling. According to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the benefits of recycling plastic and glass were outweighed by the price—recycling cost twice as much as disposal. Meanwhile, low demand for the materials meant that much of it was ending up in landfills anyway, despite best intentions."<ref name="The Pros and Cons of Recycling"/> || {{w|United States}}
| 2003 || || Policy || The {{w|California Electronic Waste Recycling Act}} is signed, establishing a new program for consumers to return, recycle, and ensure the safe and environmentally sound disposal of video display devices, such as televisions and computer monitors, that are hazardous wastes when discarded.<ref name="electronic">Electronic Hazardous Waste. (2010). Retrieved from Department of Toxic Substances Control website: http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/hazardouswaste/ewaste/</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 2003 || {{w|Curbside recycling}} || Organization || {{w|Curbside Value Partnership}} <ref>{{cite web |title=The Recycling Partnership |url=http://www.cancentral.com/recycling-sustainability/programs-initiatives/the-recycling-partnership |website=cancentral.com |accessdate=14 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Curbside Value Partnership changes name |url=https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/curbside-value-partnership-name-change/ |website=recyclingtoday.com |accessdate=14 February 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 2003 || || || {{w|The Freecycle Network}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The Freecycle Network: Good for the Planet (and Your Wallet) |url=https://www.aarp.org/money/budgeting-saving/info-11-2009/freecycle_network.html |website=aarp.org |accessdate=13 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A Decade of Sharing: The Freecycle Network Turns 10 |url=https://earth911.com/business-policy/business/the-freecycle-network-10-years/ |website=earth911.com |accessdate=13 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Freecycle |url=https://anjr.com/njwastewise/2012/Freecycle%20booklet.pdf |website=anjr.com |accessdate=13 February 2020}}</ref> ||
| 2003 || || || {{w|e-Stewards}}<ref>{{cite web |title=What are R2 and e-Stewards Certifications? |url=https://greencitizen.com/what-are-r2-and-e-steward-certifications/ |website=greencitizen.com |accessdate=13 February 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 2006 || || || {{w|World Reuse, Repair and Recycling Association}} <ref>{{cite web |title=World Reuse, Repair and Recycling Association |url=https://www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/world-reuse,-repair-and-recycling-association/isbn/978-613-3-66974-1 |website=morebooks.de |accessdate=14 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions about Fair Trade Recycling |url=http://ingenthron.net/mission/faq.html |website=ingenthron.net/ |accessdate=14 February 2020}}</ref> ||
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| 2006 || || Organization || {{w|I-recycle}} || {{w|United Kingdom}}
| 2009 || {{w|Scrap}} || Publication || American professor {{w|Carl A. Zimring}} publishes ''Cash for your trash'', one of the first specialized studies about scrap recycling in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|title=Zimring, Carl A. Cash for your trash : Scrap recycling in America|url=http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbh/v33n66/en_a17v33n66.pdf|website=scielo.br|accessdate=16 August 2017}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 2012 || Electronics {{w|Electronic recycling}} || Statistics || More than 585 million pounds of consumer electronics are recycled. This is an increase of 125 million pounds (more than 25%) over 2011.<ref name="A Brief Timeline of the History of Recycling"/> ||
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| 2013 || || || "Operation Green Fence was the 2013 effort to just start getting exporting countries to clean their recycling, their plastics in particular."<ref name="America’s new recycling crisis, explained by an expert"/> ||
| 2014 || || || "In 2014, Americans generated about 258 million tons of trash and recycled 66.4 million tons and composted 23 million tons of this material, equivalent to a 34.6 percent recycling rate. On average, we recycled and composted 1.51 pounds of our individual waste generation of 4.44 pounds per person per day."<ref name="lbre.stanford.edu">{{cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions: Benefits of Recycling |url=https://lbre.stanford.edu/pssistanford-recycling/frequently-asked-questions/frequently-asked-questions-benefits-recycling |website=lbre.stanford.edu |accessdate=9 February 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 2015 || {{w|Plastic recycling}} || || "Of the 5800 million tonnes of primary plastic no longer in use, only 9 percent has been recycled since 1950."<ref name="Plastic Pollution"/>
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| 2015 || {{w|Plastic recycling}} | | || "In 2015the year, an estimated 55 percent of global plastic waste was is discarded, 25 percent was is incinerated, and 20 percent recycled."<ref name="Plastic Pollution"/> ||
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| 2016 || || || "The recycling industry generates revenue volume of 160 billion dollars throughout the world, and employs around 1.5 million people."<ref name="paprec.comvv"/> ||
| 2018 || Paper/cardboard || || "Recycling in the United States has shown continued growth. Data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicates that from 1960 to 2017, recycling of paper and paperboard products increased from approximately 5 million tons to 44 million tons. In 2017, the recycling rate was 65.9%, which was among the highest compared to other materials in municipal solid waste. In 2018, that percentage increased to 68.1%."<ref name="Introduction to Paper Recycling"/> || {{w|United States}}
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| 2018 || || {{w|Electronic recycling}} || " For instance, Apple in 2018 introduced Daisy, a smartphone-recycling robot that can take apart 200 iPhones every hour, and says it diverted 48,000 metric tons of electronic waste from landfills that year. "<ref>{{cite web |title=The World Has an E-Waste Problem |url=https://time.com/5594380/world-electronic-waste-problem/ |website=time.com |accessdate=4 February 2020}}</ref> ||
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| 2018 || || {{w|Paper recycling}} || "In 2018, South Africa recovered 1.285 million tonnes of recyclable paper products, putting the country’s paper recovery rate at 71.7%. More than 90% of this recovered paper is used for the local beneficiation of new paper packaging and tissue."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://recyclepaper.co.za/|title=RecyclePaperZA website|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> || {{w|South Africa}}
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| 2018 || March || || ". Since early 2018, China has banned many scrap materials and has not accepted others unless they meet an extremely strict contamination rate of 0.5 percent."<ref>{{cite web |title=How American Recycling Is Changing After China’s National Sword |url=https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/04/recycling-waste-management-us-china-national-sword-change/584665/ |website=citylab.com |accessdate=11 February 2020}}</ref> "Within the recycling community, there had been rumblings that China might change its policies, but the force of Operation National Sword, announced in July 2017, still came as a surprise. Going into full effect last March, it banned 24 types of scrap and implemented much stricter and more rigorous contamination standards which have been described as “impossible to reach.” As a result, local governments and the recycling industry are now facing an unprecedented recycling crisis, especially in plastics."<ref name="America’s new recycling crisis, explained by an expert">{{cite web |title=America’s new recycling crisis, explained by an expert |url=https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/4/2/18290956/recycling-crisis-china-plastic-operation-national-sword |website=vox.com |accessdate=13 February 2020}}</ref> || {{w|China}}
