Local initiatives from around the US and Canada.

FIFA World Cup host cities seized the moment to activate reuse, even while the Games themselves did not. (Image credit: Bryton Garay / Muuse)

What’s Canada’s secret sauce when it comes to reuse? A combination of factors are contributing momentum — and though it is a unique recipe, there’s still much to learn and apply to reuse systems everywhere else.

Across North America, an unrecognized labor force is cleaning up communities, reducing municipal costs, raising recycling rates — and has potential to raise return rates for reusables, too.

Sustain Our Future Foundation's community benefits agreement model aligns circular procurement with mechanisms that improve material conditions for communities, not just materials flows within supply chains.

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

How are things going in Banff, two years after passing a visionary waste reduction bylaw?

Insights from reuse advocates well versed in reaching across the aisle.

Advocacy strategies local groups and coalitions have been using to advance reuse in communities across the US & Canada.