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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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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.
Making repair mainstream (again)
Episode 167: Leslie Bateman and Emily Watts, co-founders of shoe and leather repair company Coblrshop, share their journey in innovating an age-old craft.
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.
A vision for implementing reuse
Episode 163: Celebrating her first work anniversary at Upstream, CEO Crystal Dreisbach shares some top moments from year one and her vision for the work ahead.
The 2.0 of bottled H2O
Episode 162: How reuse startup Kadeya is on track to eliminate the single-use beverage problem with their game-changing hydration technology stations.
The “secret sauce” to scaling circular systems
Episode 161: What are the magic ingredients to scale reuse? Learn insights from the nonprofit, reuse business, policymaking, government funding, and corporate perspectives.