The House Joint Resolution No. 79 requested that the Commission study and report on the feasibility of establishing regional centers for recycling paper, glass, metal and other products whose manufacture depletes the natural resources of the Commonwealth.

In preparing this report, the Commission concluded that several interpretations can be put on the term "Regional Recycling Centers." One concept is that of collection centers for scrap materials which are either purchased from the public or collected as a community service. These scrap materials are then segregated at the recycling center into various reasonably pure materials, further subdivided where it is required to obtain a higher market price (such as color sorting of glass), processed for shipment and sold to various industrial users.