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

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The Reuse Job Market

EPISODE 179: Featuring Natasha Wayne of Reaching All Minds Academy and Matthew Luisier of r.World — stories of two people helping manage the shift to a reuse economy in very different ways.

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Reuse Goalposts for Stadiums & Arenas

EPISODE 178: Christy Briggs of Lumen Field & the Seattle Seahawks and Mary McCarthy of Levy Restaurants on the opportunities and challenges posed by bringing reuse to the sports & entertainment sector.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Conscious Cafeteria Project

EPISODE 174: Diving into the findings of a national pilot study of reusable foodware for healthier, more sustainable schools.

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The Plastic Free Pharmacy

EPISODE 173: Cabinet Health is on a mission to eliminate plastic in pharmaceuticals, starting with a mail-in refill model.

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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.

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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.

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Connecting dots for circularity

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Working Together to Build the New Reuse Economy

Episode 134: Recorded at Circularity 23 in June, an engaging panel discussion on the successes, challenges, opportunities and collaboration needed to enact the vision of a new reuse world.

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Reuse, reimagine, redistribute

Episode 126: Anita Schwartz, VP at WSP-USA, joins us to discuss how practices like redistribution and reuse can aid in a just transition to a circular economy.

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Coming full circle with GreenBiz

Episode 123: GreenBiz’s VP of Circularity Jon Smieja and Circular Economy Manager Kori Goldberg join us to discuss what’s in store for this year’s Circularity conference—including The Reusies 2023!— and share their outlooks on the bright future of reuse.

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Reuse on the world stage

Episode 104: Ocean Plastics Leadership Network Founder Dave Ford walks us through the big picture ideas and strategies that are needed to bring about reuse solutions on a global scale.

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Batting 1,000 on zero-waste

EPISODE 103: Former MLB player and co-founder of Players for the Planet Chris Dickerson talks about his vision for zero-waste athletic stadiums and a cleaner planet for future generations.

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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.

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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.

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The Indisposable Podcast Turns 100!

EPISODE 100: Celebrating 100 stories of solutions to plastic pollution – a walk down memory lane with hosts Brooking Gatewood and Matt Prindiville.

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Unlearning the past to build a circular future

EPISODE 99: GreenBiz Group is a media and events company that’s working to accelerate a just transition to a clean economy. GreenBiz’s Suz Okie and Jon Smieja talk “Circularity” - the concept and the conference - and the trends and opportunities that are going to make reuse scale.

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