curriculums. The Foundation believes these programs enrich the lives, minds, and spirits of all participating. Playback In 2016, D’Addario teamed up with Terracycle, an international upcycling and recycling company that repurposes waste into new, materials and products, creating the Playback program. Playback is the world's leading string recycling program. Musical instrument strings are not recycled through municipal recycling programs and because of that, more than 1.5 million pounds of instrument string metal ends up in landfills yearly. Playback’s goal is to facilitate 100 percent recycling and upcycling of strings to minimize D’Addario’s and the entire industry’s impact. Play. Plant. Preserve D’Addario/ProMark conducted research in 2011 that showed the musical instrument industry used 1,500 trees daily to produce drumsticks. In 2013, ProMark began partnering with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture to replant all those trees. Today, ProMark is planting approximately 85,000 trees each year, totaling 600,000 trees in Tennessee soil to date. In 2021, D’Addario planted 100 percent of the trees used to manufacture ProMark drumsticks, and maintains a goal to plant one million trees by 2024, ultimately leading to a net-neutral industry in 2043. References External links Musical instrument manufacturing companies of the United States Clarinet manufacturing companies Percussion instrument manufacturing companies Manufacturing companies based in New York (state) Family-owned companies of the United States