We are committed to improving the quality of the environment
and reducing solid waste through recycling PET beverage containers.
Join PRCC!
If you sell PET beverages in CA or make PET beverage bottles for sale in CA, we encourage you to learn more about the importance of being a member of PRCC! Contact our Executive Director Sally Houghton, we would love to talk to you more about the value of PRCC.
Mission
We are here to increase public awareness and the recycling rates for plastic PET beverage containers. We strive to ensure stable end-use markets for all PET collected in California, to increase the value of PET, and to reduce the costs of its collection.
Today, PRCC purchases PET bottles for resale to reclaimers in the US and globally. PRCC inspects its purchases and maintains meticulous quality control. Our purpose is to ensure that PRCC’s buyers get the best quality material available and our suppliers get the best price possible. In 2025, PRCC handled nearly 190 million pounds of PET. PRCC’s buyers use this material to manufacture new bottles and food containers, fiber for carpeting and clothing, fiberfill, and industrial strapping.
History
In October 1987, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act (AB2020) went into effect mandating the recycling of carbonated beverage containers by placing a redemption value on these containers. In 2000, the law was expanded to almost all beverage containers. The plastic soft drink bottle manufacturing industry of California took early action to support the new recycling law and ensure that an effective statewide PET plastic recycling program was in place before the law took effect.
One action taken was the formation of the Plastic Recycling Corporation of California (PRCC) in June 1987. PRCC is a private non-profit organization. At its inception, PRCC aggressively implemented innovative marketing and consumer promotions in order to increase redemption rates and public awareness of the recyclability of soft drink bottles.