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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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A Grand Reuse Project
EPISODE 181: Upstream and partners are helping the Grand Canyon build the nation’s largest open-loop reuse system. Learn about the process and their progress so far.
photo credit: National Park Service / K. Thomas
The Quest for a Universal Reuse Symbol
EPISODE 180: 2025 will go down in history as the year the universal Reuse symbol was born — listen in to learn more and to participate.
The Reuse Job Market
EPISODE 179: Featuring Natasha Wayne of Reaching All Minds Academy and Matthew Luisier of r.World — stories of two people helping manage the shift to a reuse economy in very different ways.
Reuse Goalposts for Stadiums & Arenas
EPISODE 178: Christy Briggs of Lumen Field & the Seattle Seahawks and Mary McCarthy of Levy Restaurants on the opportunities and challenges posed by bringing reuse to the sports & entertainment sector.
Reuse beyond policy: impactful community projects
EPISODE 177: Isabel Mack, creator of Party Kit Network, and Toni Mason with Bull City Boomerang Bags discuss community-focused reuse initiatives driven by passion instead of policy.
image: Party Kit Network
The Vision & Playbook for Reuse in EPR
EPISODE 176: Upstream shares key points from their recent position paper on what to expect in a best-in-class PRO and discusses the model set up by CITEO in France.
Reading, Writing, ‘Rithmatic, Reuse
EPISODE 175: Switching K-12 schools to reusables is a win-win-win for improving children’s health, educating and empowering the community around sustainability issues, and providing an impressive ROI for school administrators.
The Conscious Cafeteria Project
EPISODE 174: Diving into the findings of a national pilot study of reusable foodware for healthier, more sustainable schools.
The Plastic Free Pharmacy
EPISODE 173: Cabinet Health is on a mission to eliminate plastic in pharmaceuticals, starting with a mail-in refill model.