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What School Lunchrooms Can Teach Us About Normalizing Reuse
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What School Lunchrooms Can Teach Us About Normalizing Reuse

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France to Ban Plastic Packaging by 2040 With Other Crackdowns in Store</a>
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14 training resources for designing circularity into businesses
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14 training resources for designing circularity into businesses

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How Companies are Driving the Shift to Reusable Foodservice Ware
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How Companies are Driving the Shift to Reusable Foodservice Ware

Waste360 - Nov 2, 2023

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How ‘zero-waste’ brands like Seadrop cut new production pathways
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How ‘zero-waste’ brands like Seadrop cut new production pathways

Modern Retail - Oct 27, 2023

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Maine offers last chance to comment on draft EPR plans ahead of formal rulemaking
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Maine offers last chance to comment on draft EPR plans ahead of formal rulemaking

Waste Dive - Oct 11, 2023

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Draft for UN plastics agreement lays out EPR, recycled content, reuse possibilities
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Draft for UN plastics agreement lays out EPR, recycled content, reuse possibilities

Packaging Dive - Sept 8, 2023

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Packaging is changing: 4 reuse innovations we’re following
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Packaging is changing: 4 reuse innovations we’re following

GreenBiz - Aug 11, 2023

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The reuse innovators at the forefront of the plastic crisis
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The reuse innovators at the forefront of the plastic crisis

World Wildlife Fund - Aug 17, 2023

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Upstream appoints Crystal Dreisbach as new CEO
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Upstream appoints Crystal Dreisbach as new CEO

Waste Dive - Aug 14, 2023

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The unbridled potential of reuse in 3 metrics
Ryann Russ 8/4/23 Ryann Russ 8/4/23

The unbridled potential of reuse in 3 metrics

GreenBiz - Aug 4, 2023

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Wash-off labels continue to gain ground as brands look to make their containers more readily recyclable
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Wash-off labels continue to gain ground as brands look to make their containers more readily recyclable

Packaging Dive - July 10, 2023

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A New Report Details the Climate, Health &amp;Human Rights Impacts of a Plastic Bottle
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A New Report Details the Climate, Health &Human Rights Impacts of a Plastic Bottle

FoodPrint - June 7, 2023

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And the Reusie goes to…

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How to build a zero-waste economy
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How to build a zero-waste economy

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