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The New Wave of Recycling: Refilling
Our recycling system is broken. Now, it’s time for consumers and businesses to adopt recycling’s stronger sister: reusing.
Self Care Tips from a Small Nonprofit Working to Save the World from Plastic
The pressure to save the world amidst the evolving climate crisis gets bigger by the minute, and it can be daunting and disheartening. In light of Mental Health Awareness Month, this brought me to a question that anyone facing such heavy circumstances, at any moment, needs to know the answer to: How can I practice mental self care when I start to feel small and dejected?
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?