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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.
The Vision & Playbook for Reuse in EPR
EPISODE 176: Upstream shares key points from their recent position paper on what to expect in a best-in-class PRO and discusses the model set up by CITEO in France.
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.
Bans on bans
Episode 171: Preemption laws—or “bans on bans”—can make it hard for localities in more conservative states to pass plastic reduction and reuse policies. Learn insights & workarounds from on-the-ground advocates in FL, CO, and MT.
The keys to a reuse revolution
Episode 166: Christiana Dujardin, lead analyst for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s groundbreaking report, Unlocking A Reuse Revolution - Scaling Returnable Packaging, shares insights & takeaways on designing a returnable packaging system that can compete across the board with single-use.
Reuse, Climate & Environmental Justice
Episode 165: A recording of the summer Reuse Solutions Network meeting, which dives deep on the interrelation between single-use plastic, climate change, environmental justice, and a just transition to reuse.
Persistence + Data = Change
Episode 164: How passion, persistence, and good data can go a long way in creating change—with Yayoi Koizumi, founder of Zero Waste Ithaca and co-founder of BYO-US Reduces.
The “secret sauce” to scaling circular systems
Episode 161: What are the magic ingredients to scale reuse? Learn insights from the nonprofit, reuse business, policymaking, government funding, and corporate perspectives.