The Indisposable Podcast®
Celebrating solutions to plastic pollution and featuring heroes of the movement
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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.
Changing lives with reuse
Episode 169: A win-win model from MD Department of Aging: reusing durable medical equipment to increase access while saving money, carbon, and landfill waste.
Reuse to-go goes back to school
Episode 168: PLAN’s Atlas Fellows launch a Reuse To-Go Manual & ROI Calculation Course to help college students make lasting changes in campus dining.
The keys to a reuse revolution
Episode 166: Christiana Dujardin, lead analyst for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s groundbreaking report, Unlocking A Reuse Revolution - Scaling Returnable Packaging, shares insights & takeaways on designing a returnable packaging system that can compete across the board with single-use.
Reuse, Climate & Environmental Justice
Episode 165: A recording of the summer Reuse Solutions Network meeting, which dives deep on the interrelation between single-use plastic, climate change, environmental justice, and a just transition to reuse.
Persistence + Data = Change
Episode 164: How passion, persistence, and good data can go a long way in creating change—with Yayoi Koizumi, founder of Zero Waste Ithaca and co-founder of BYO-US Reduces.
From cafeteria to community: students launch reuse
Episode 160: Inspiring Berkeley High School students Sophie Horvath and Joshua Swift-Rawal share their journey in advocating for reuse at their school and beyond.