This report was developed to support the Oregon Recycling Steering Committee (RSC), a multi-stakeholder group convened in May 2018 by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The committee is tasked with identifying what Oregon’s future recycling system should look like, using research to inform recommendations to modernize the current system to better meet the goals established by Oregon’s 2050 Vision and Framework for Action. One of the RSC’s work flows was managed by the Legal and Relational Frameworks subcommittee, which sought to identify and evaluate alternative policy, programmatic, and regulatory approaches to improve upon the existing recycling framework. In spring of 2019, the subcommittee conducted a two-part gap analysis of the current Oregon system, comparing it against a set of desired functions of Oregon’s future recycling system that were approved by the RSC in March 2019. To help the RSC understand potential paths forward, DEQ issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for research and evaluation services to research recycling system frameworks that might offer advantages over the existing system in Oregon. This resulted in a contract with Resource Recycling Systems (RRS). To determine the frameworks to be evaluated for this project, the subcommittee used meetings over a three-month period to discuss every framework submitted to DEQ through its RFP process. Frameworks from both existing systems as well as more theoretical frameworks were considered and eventually 10 frameworks were selected for the project. RRS used the