Reuse Wins: A Case for Reuse in Food Service

Community ActionReuse 101PolicyBusiness
Written By Brooking Gatewood

Episode #53

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In this episode, we celebrate the launch of Reuse Wins – a hot-off-the-digital-press report by Upstream that shows how a new reuse economy is emerging to replace single-use products in food service. We dive deep into the weeds of life-cycle analysis (LCA) and economic data to understand why Reuse Wins and what our world will look like when we transition to a new reuse economy where throw-away goes away. With Upstream’s policy director, Miriam Gordon, who authored the report and Minal Mistry, business initiatives lead with the Oregon Department for Environmental Quality.

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Brooking Gatewood

Brooking hosts Upstream’s The Indisposable Podcast and guides our team on virtual collaboration and culture-building. She has worked with Break Free From Plastic US since 2016 as a facilitator and strategist, and has spent much of the last decade supporting collaborative leadership for many ambitious change efforts - from saving monarch butterflies to curbing diabetes. In her spare time, Brooking can be found writing and performing poetry, or hosting community-connection events in her local LA neighborhood.

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