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The Indisposable Podcast®
Learning from reuse-focused changemakers at the intersection of plastic pollution, climate change, and environmental justice.
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Reuse Goalposts for Stadiums & Arenas
EPISODE 178: Christy Briggs of Lumen Field & the Seattle Seahawks and Mary McCarthy of Levy Restaurants on the opportunities and challenges posed by bringing reuse to the sports & entertainment sector.
Reuse beyond policy: impactful community projects
EPISODE 177: Isabel Mack, creator of Party Kit Network, and Toni Mason with Bull City Boomerang Bags discuss community-focused reuse initiatives driven by passion instead of policy.
image: Party Kit Network
The Vision & Playbook for Reuse in EPR
EPISODE 176: Upstream shares key points from their recent position paper on what to expect in a best-in-class PRO and discusses the model set up by CITEO in France.
Reading, Writing, ‘Rithmatic, Reuse
EPISODE 175: Switching K-12 schools to reusables is a win-win-win for improving children’s health, educating and empowering the community around sustainability issues, and providing an impressive ROI for school administrators.
The Conscious Cafeteria Project
EPISODE 174: Diving into the findings of a national pilot study of reusable foodware for healthier, more sustainable schools.
The Plastic Free Pharmacy
EPISODE 173: Cabinet Health is on a mission to eliminate plastic in pharmaceuticals, starting with a mail-in refill model.
Unstoppable community organizing
EPISODE 172: Organizers in states where it is challenging to pass policy are still doing good work to reduce plastic waste and encourage reuse. Plastic Free MKE shares the story of their success.
Bans on bans
Episode 171: Preemption laws—or “bans on bans”—can make it hard for localities in more conservative states to pass plastic reduction and reuse policies. Learn insights & workarounds from on-the-ground advocates in FL, CO, and MT.
Connecting dots for circularity
Episode 170: Happen Ventures leverages logistics and partnerships to repurpose products and divert landfill waste.