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APR Design® Training & Tours

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 to Thursday, September 24, 2026

Sheraton Indianapolis City Centre Hotel

31 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
United States

Event Details

This interactive program combines engaging classroom sessions each morning with afternoon tours where that learning is put to the test.

  • Day 1: Republic Services’ 96th Street Recycling Center, a single-stream material recovery facility (MRF) which sorts and bales curbside recyclables

  • Day 2: Republic Polymer Center and Blue Polymers Complex, which produce PET flake as well as PE and PP pellets and house state-of-the art labs

  • Day 3: Nova Circular Solutions, a world-class mechanical recycling facility that produces recycled PE resins made from post-consumer films

Ultimately, this program develops expertise and insights that attendees can then bring back to their companies and leverage to lead better packaging design.

If you design, use, manufacture, collect, or otherwise want to understand the recycling process for plastic packaging, this session is for you. We welcome both technical and non-technical audiences, including:

  • Package design engineers
  • Sustainability managers
  • Product and marketing managers
  • Procurement managers
  • And more!