Part of our series highlighting local reuse initiatives, a look at Zero Waste Miami’s efforts to bring together their community around a common cause.

Request for Information (RFI) for reusable foodware for Grand Canyon National Park reuse project.

Image: NPS, M. Quinn

Amidst rapid advancement of packaging EPR laws, stakeholders remain hyper-fixated on recycling. Solutions that require true systemic change, like reuse, risk being regarded as side issues in the absence of strong advocacy.

Part III of a conversation with Jo Banner and Frankie Orona, an installation of Upstream’s project exploring the role of reuse in a Just Transition.

Reuse is, first and foremost, a core economic transformation. Why? Because it allocates the true cost of how materials move through our society.

Part II of a conversation with Jo Banner and Frankie Orona, an installation of Upstream’s project exploring the role of reuse in a Just Transition.

image credit: Society of Native Nations

Part I of a conversation with Jo Banner and Frankie Orona, an installation of Upstream’s project exploring the role of reuse in a Just Transition.

We are ready for the next step beyond pilots to ensure that reuse becomes systemic and widespread: we are ready for enduring projects. 

Themes and throughlines in the conversations occurring at packaging and sustainability conferences that provide a snapshot of where reuse is gaining traction, and where it is hitting snags.