Pioneering Reuse in Banff (2024)

A podcast interview with Carla Bitz, Environmental Coordinator for the town of Banff in Alberta, Canada. Banff, located in Canada’s first National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site, receives over 4 million visitors each year and has no landfills or recycling facilities—presenting both unique opportunities and challenges to achieving the Town’s goal of moving toward zero waste. In 2023, they passed a pioneering Single-Use Item Reduction Strategy & Bylaw requiring reusables for on-site dining as well as a strategy focused on reduction and reuse tailored to their tourism-based context. Learn from Carla about the grassroots efforts that led to passage of this law, how it’s going, and what others can learn from Banff’s example.