The Illinois Circularity Conference brings together the recycling coordinators, public works directors, haulers, processors, manufacturers, and state agency staff who run materials management in this state. Title sponsorship for 2027 is available now.
Hosted by the Illinois Recycling Foundation and SWANA Illinois · See how 2026 went · Register to attend
This is a small, working conference — not a trade show floor where your logo competes with four hundred others. Sponsors are visible here because there aren't many of them.
Attendees come from municipal and county programs, waste agencies, hauling and processing companies, consultancies, manufacturers, and state government. Most hold budget authority or sit close to whoever does.
A partial list of organizations that spoke at the 2026 conference.
The conference rotates around the state, and 2027 puts it in the capital — walking distance from Illinois EPA headquarters and the legislature, at a point in the calendar when EPR and materials policy are live questions here. It also opens the room to central and southern Illinois programs that don't routinely make the trip to a Chicago-area venue. For a sponsor, that's a different audience than 2026 reached, not the same one twice.
The title sponsor's name travels with the conference everywhere it appears: the event name itself, the website, every email, the printed program, and the room.
One title sponsor per year, decided early — the name goes on the save-the-date and rides every announcement from there to June. The Battery Network held it in 2026; see what that looked like in the 2026 archive.
2027 sponsorship opportunities are available. Title sponsorship is limited; contact us early to discuss availability and the best fit for your organization.
Ready to lock a level in? Discuss sponsorship. Want to talk it through first, or need something that isn't on this list — a session, a reception, lanyards, a shuttle? Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll build it.
These organizations made the 2026 conference happen. Most of these spots are open again for 2027.
The Battery Network presented the 2026 conference. As the state-approved stewardship program under the Illinois Portable Battery Act, they put battery collection and critical materials recovery at the center of the statewide conversation for a full year.
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The best case for sponsoring 2027 is what happened in 2026. Here's the record.
Two days covering battery stewardship, EPR policy, anaerobic digestion, industrial reuse, and municipal program design — with speakers from U.S. EPA Region 5, the Illinois EPA, the City of Chicago, Green Era, Bubbly Dynamics, and Midwest Paper Retriever.
Read the recapTell us what your organization is trying to reach and we'll find the level that fits — or build something that isn't on the list. No form to fill out. Email or call.