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The Indisposable Podcast®
Learning from reuse-focused changemakers at the intersection of plastic pollution, climate change, and environmental justice.
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Reuse in Food Codes
EPISODE 184: Experts and advocates share their insights into reuse and refill in state and federal food codes, plus strategies to update your own state’s food code to be more reuse/refill friendly.
Catalyzing School Reuse With Dishwashing Grants
EPISODE 183: Lessons from the California school district that helped 300+ schools transition to reuse through a statewide grant program.
Normalizing Reuse With Behavior Change Science
EPISODE 182: An exploration of behavior change science for reuse with Jen Carrigan and Katie Patrick.
photo credit: Cup Club
A Grand Reuse Project
EPISODE 181: Upstream and partners are helping the Grand Canyon build the nation’s largest open-loop reuse system. Learn about the process and their progress so far.
photo credit: National Park Service / K. Thomas
The Quest for a Universal Reuse Symbol
EPISODE 180: 2025 will go down in history as the year the universal Reuse symbol was born — listen in to learn more and to participate.
Reuse beyond policy: impactful community projects
EPISODE 177: Isabel Mack, creator of Party Kit Network, and Toni Mason with Bull City Boomerang Bags discuss community-focused reuse initiatives driven by passion instead of policy.
image: Party Kit Network
Reading, Writing, ‘Rithmatic, Reuse
EPISODE 175: Switching K-12 schools to reusables is a win-win-win for improving children’s health, educating and empowering the community around sustainability issues, and providing an impressive ROI for school administrators.
The Conscious Cafeteria Project
EPISODE 174: Diving into the findings of a national pilot study of reusable foodware for healthier, more sustainable schools.
Unstoppable community organizing
EPISODE 172: Organizers in states where it is challenging to pass policy are still doing good work to reduce plastic waste and encourage reuse. Plastic Free MKE shares the story of their success.