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You can help your favorite restaurant go disposable-free. Here’s how.
Handy insights, tips, and talking points for approaching food service businesses to help them save money and the planet at the same time.
Why we need to “Break Free From Plastic” AND embrace reuse
Because the Break Free From Plastic Act does not currently focus on reusables, we organized a working group to develop recommendations for building reusable/refillable requirements into the Act and have been communicating these ideas to the authors of the legislation.
From As You Sow: Using Shareholder Pressure to Get Big Brands to Clean up Plastic Pollution
As You Sow uses shareholder advocacy to press publicly-traded companies to improve their social and environmental practices and policies.
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.