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Top Takeaways from the 2023 BFFP Global Meeting
At the end of March, more than 100 core members from dozens of countries convened for the first global meeting of the BFFP movement since before the pandemic. Here are some key takeaways.
The Reuse Outreach Playbook
An everyday guide for conducting reuse outreach & education at food businesses.
How to do reuse at home
There’s a lot of single-use waste that comes into our homes. But there are concrete steps we can take to reduce it.
Organizing for Reuse: Local Changemakers in Action
When it comes to changing something as entrenched as the throw-away culture, the real changemakers are local community members and their elected officials – people who are passionate about saving the planet and ready to innovate new approaches.
A historic treaty to beat plastic pollution
On Wednesday, representatives from 175 nations agreed to draft a global treaty that would start to tackle the exponentially growing amount of plastic pollution that we’re facing – essentially a Paris Agreement for plastics.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Launching a Reuse Coalition
After launching a few reuse coalitions ourselves (and supporting others to do the same), we offer the following best practices to help you think about what might work best in your community.
840 billion single-use products could be replaced by new reuse service economy
Reuse Wins, a new report from Upstream, shows how a new reuse economy is emerging to replace the use of single-use products in food service. The key findings in the report draw from life-cycle studies that compare the environmental impacts of disposables versus reusables, and project the potential cost savings to business and local government from transitioning to a new reuse economy.
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?