Pennsylvania Resources Council collaborates with community members, businesses, nonprofit organizations, local and state government, and students, teachers, and schools, to prevent waste and conserve the environment.
Community Members
PRC provides convenient and responsible opportunities for community members to reuse, recycle, and safely manage hard to recycle goods (such as electronics, tires, and household chemicals) and glass. We educate people to steward the environment, reduce waste, recycle, compost, and protect watersheds. We work with property owners to manage stormwater on their properties. We offer volunteer and contractor opportunities for people that want to help. And we collaborate to develop programs and initiatives in pursuit of equitable, just environmental outcomes.
Businesses
PRC works with businesses to help them use fewer resources and produce less waste, and to reuse, compost, or recycle that which they do produce. We partner with businesses to provide communities with convenient and responsible opportunities to reuse, recycle, and safely manage hard to recycle goods (such as electronics, tires, and household chemicals) and glass, and manage stormwater. And we collaborate to develop programs and initiatives in pursuit of equitable, just environmental outcomes.
Nonprofits
PRC works with nonprofit organizations to help them produce less waste and to reuse, compost, or recycle that which they do produce. We connect nonprofits with valuable goods that would otherwise become trash. We collaborate to develop programs and initiatives in pursuit of equitable, just environmental outcomes and to advocate for sound environmental practice and policy at the local and state level. We partner with nonprofits to protect watersheds. We periodically incubate and help launch new nonprofits to help further the mission.
Government
PRC works with local governments, in collaboration with communities and partners, to build infrastructure to divert waste — providing convenient and responsible opportunities to recycle and safely manage hard to recycle goods (such as electronics, tires, and household chemicals) and glass. We provide technical assistance and on-the-ground support to help local governments study, design, test, and implement waste reduction and diversion strategies. We help write and manage grants under Act 101. And we educate elected and agency officials at all levels in pursuit of more closed-loop policy and practice.
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Teachers and Schools
We provide experiential environmental education in K12 schools, helping students learn to steward the environment. We conduct courses about waste reduction and recycling, watersheds and streams, and renewable energy and conservation. All of PRC’s courses align with PA Department of Education standards.