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Learning from reuse-focused changemakers at the intersection of plastic pollution, climate change, and environmental justice.

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Brooking Gatewood 12/8/22 Brooking Gatewood 12/8/22

Closing the digital divide with reuse

Episode 106: Gabe Middleton, co-founder Human-I-T, shares the story of his organization that is working to address e-waste in the age of digital inequality.

Brooking Gatewood 9/15/22 Brooking Gatewood 9/15/22

Real solutions in a virtual world

EPISODE 102: Kristy Drutman, aka Browngirl Green, uses storytelling and community-building to coalesce tens of thousands of followers around environmental and climate justice solutions.

Brooking Gatewood 9/8/22 Brooking Gatewood 9/8/22

Indisposable Venture Capital

EPISODE 101: From climate tech to circular economy, talking about the business of venture capital for a better world with Doreen Wong of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance.

Brooking Gatewood 8/18/22 Brooking Gatewood 8/18/22

Downstream, upstream, in-between: innovating reuse globally

EPISODE 98: The World Economic Forum plays a key role connecting the dots of the Reuse Movement around the world. Poonam Watine delves into WEF’s work in providing resources to scale reuse and innovate solutions across the value chain.

Brooking Gatewood 8/4/22 Brooking Gatewood 8/4/22

Hug a plate: plastic-free solutions for kid friendly dining

EPISODE 96: Doctor, mother, & Solutioneer Manasa Mantravadi is on a mission to replace plastic wherever families dine – creating a brighter, healthier future for kids and planet.

Brooking Gatewood 7/21/22 Brooking Gatewood 7/21/22

Making Restaurants More Reusable

EPISODE 94: Hollywood actor turned Solutioneer John Charles Meyer shares how a little investment goes a long way toward creating Plastic Free Restaurants in the US.

Brooking Gatewood 6/8/22 Brooking Gatewood 6/8/22

Plastic, Oceans, & a New Way Forward

EPISODE 90: For World Oceans Day, Oceanic Global’s Cassia Patel discusses why we all need our oceans to be healthy and plastic free.

Brooking Gatewood 5/26/22 Brooking Gatewood 5/26/22

AAPI Leadership and Advancing Reuse

EPISODE 89: Grace Lee of ReThink Disposable shares how fostering relationships with restaurant owners has led to some of the most groundbreaking pilots in the reuse movement today.

Brooking Gatewood 5/5/22 Brooking Gatewood 5/5/22

Organizing for a Reusable Future

EPISODE 87: Thinking about organizing for reuse in your own city or town? Listen in for lessons from three leaders making change in their communities.

Guest User 10/3/24 Guest User 10/3/24

Connecting dots for circularity

Episode 170: Happen Ventures leverages logistics and partnerships to repurpose products and divert landfill waste.

Guest User 9/26/24 Guest User 9/26/24

Changing lives with reuse

Episode 169: A win-win model from MD Department of Aging: reusing durable medical equipment to increase access while saving money, carbon, and landfill waste.

Guest User 9/19/24 Guest User 9/19/24

Reuse to-go goes back to school

Episode 168: PLAN’s Atlas Fellows launch a Reuse To-Go Manual & ROI Calculation Course to help college students make lasting changes in campus dining.

Guest User 9/12/24 Guest User 9/12/24

Making repair mainstream (again)

Episode 167: Leslie Bateman and Emily Watts, co-founders of shoe and leather repair company Coblrshop, share their journey in innovating an age-old craft.

Guest User 9/5/24 Guest User 9/5/24

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.

Guest User 8/29/24 Guest User 8/29/24

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.

Guest User 8/22/24 Guest User 8/22/24

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.

Guest User 8/14/24 Guest User 8/14/24

A vision for implementing reuse

Episode 163: Celebrating her first work anniversary at Upstream, CEO Crystal Dreisbach shares some top moments from year one and her vision for the work ahead.

Guest User 7/24/24 Guest User 7/24/24

The 2.0 of bottled H2O

Episode 162: How reuse startup Kadeya is on track to eliminate the single-use beverage problem with their game-changing hydration technology stations.

Guest User 6/20/24 Guest User 6/20/24

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.

Guest User 6/13/24 Guest User 6/13/24

From cafeteria to community: students launch reuse

Episode 160: Inspiring Berkeley High School students Sophie Horvath and Joshua Swift-Rawal share their journey in advocating for reuse at their school and beyond.

Guest User 6/6/24 Guest User 6/6/24

A reuse playbook for stadiums

Episode 159: Join the Green Sports Alliance, Portland Trail Blazers, and Bold Reuse to learn about winning off-the-field with reuse at stadium events.

Guest User 5/30/24 Guest User 5/30/24

Toward a Global Plastics Treaty

Episode 158: Behind the scenes at the INC-4 meeting in Ottawa, plus what’s next for an international agreement to reduce plastic pollution.

photo: Benjamin Von Wong

Guest User 5/16/24 Guest User 5/16/24

Championing DEI & Emerging Leaders

Episode 157: Bryan Lewis, head of GreenBiz’s Emerging Leaders program, discusses empowering young sustainability professionals, a just transition to a circular economy, and what he is doing to ensure DEI doesn’t DIE.

Guest User 5/2/24 Guest User 5/2/24

Reuse Rockstars

Episode 156: How the arts, design, and action can help change culture and make throw-away go away, with Dianna Cohen and Annie Rothschild Farman of Plastic Pollution Coalition.

Guest User 4/18/24 Guest User 4/18/24

Pioneering reuse in Banff

Episode 155: The town of Banff was among the first in Canada to pass a comprehensive single-use item reduction bylaw. Hear from Environmental Coordinator Carla Bitz about the grassroots efforts that spurred the journey to passing this policy, plus successes and challenges along the way.

Guest User 3/7/24 Guest User 3/7/24

Tips for reuse advocates

Episode 154: Reusable LA co-leaders Emily Parker and Alison Waliszewski share some key insights about advocating for Reuse for Onsite Dining and other reuse policy within their community.

Guest User 2/22/24 Guest User 2/22/24

Back to basics: defining “reuse”

Episode 153: The audio version of Upstream’s Feb 15, 2024 livestream all about how to properly define reuse in policy—and why it’s important to distinguish between returnable vs. refillable packaging.

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The Latest Science on Plastic Alternatives

Episode 152: How compostable are bioplastics really? The answer: it depends. Learn more from Dr Lisa Erdle of the 5 Gyres Institute.

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Urban planning for reuse

Episode 151: Perpetual is working to bring reuse to everyone by collaboratively designing reuse systems in mid-side cities across America.

Guest User 12/7/23 Guest User 12/7/23

Envisioning a Just Transition toward Reuse, #2

Episode 150: More on navigating the challenges and opportunities in moving toward a new reuse economy built on principles of equity and justice for all.

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