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All the latest ideas and news from Upstream’s thought leaders and partners.
Jumpstarting a just recovery at home
We’re excited to share an idea (and an offer) to start replacing single-use with reuse in your own home today.
Impossible is a dare
We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to remake the society that we return to, to #ReturnToBetter rather than #ReturnToNormal.
Jumpstarting the new normal: Return to better
We CAN have a future with a strong, equitable, and just economy that reduces climate impacts and plastic pollution.
The future is indisposable: 7 questions to start the new normal now
How can we co-create the future we all want to live in?
The dirty truth about disposable foodware
Overbrook report details the economic costs to businesses and cities from disposable foodware.
Report Finds Plastics and Food Packaging Pose Global Health Threat, Nearly 200 Groups Call for Urgent Action
Nearly 200 environmental and public health organizations released an urgent Call to Action in response to a peer-reviewed consensus statement signed by 33 world-renowned scientists. It warns that chemicals used in food packaging pose numerous threats to human health.
Greenpeace recycling report: plastics recycling isn’t working, but this creates new opportunities for reduce and reuse
Plastics recycling isn’t working, but this creates new opportunities for reduce and reuse.
What you can do in your community
Ready to be a part of the solution? Join us in taking the trash out of food, from city to city and coast to coast.
What the SF is a reusable foodware ordinance?
How do we turn off the tap of plastic pollution for a whole community? See what we are up to in San Francisco!