This Super Bowl season, while fans are thinking about touchdowns, fumbles, and Bad Bunny’s half-time show, we’re thinking about how sports venues are ripe for reuse.

State legislation such as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Deposit Return Systems (DRS) must focus on transitioning to a circular economy that prioritizes reuse. (Updated January 2026).

How riders on contracts — as well as calls for reuse in municipal RFPs — can accelerate reuse.

Coalfield Development’s work on a just transition to a viable, sustainable economy in Appalachia. Part of Upstream’ s series on Reuse and a Just Transition.

image: Coalfield Development

As reuse has picked up the pace, so have we — and we produced a whole lot in 2025! Here’s what we found you were reading, listening to, and viewing the most throughout last year.

2025 was the Year of Innovation for Upstream and the reuse movement. Join us in celebrating everyone’s accomplishments.

Exploring the role of policymaking as it relates to a just transition to a reuse economy.

One of Upstream’s core strategies is to grow and support the reuse industry, and to that end we have been considering all of the potential ways in which it can be funded. The goal is to identify best bets so we can concentrate our efforts to scale infrastructure.

Insights from reuse advocates who are working on projects in places where policy is difficult to pass.