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Serve Up Reuse
THE PROBLEM We are drowning in disposables. Each year the U.S. food service industry purchases nearly 11 trillion disposable items (yes, we also have a hard time visualizing this number), spending $24 billion on products that are used for minutes and then thrown away or littered. Local governments and taxpayers are footing a $6 billion…
Plastic-Free National Parks
Protecting Our National Parks The national parks have been sabotaged for years under the Trump Administration. Now they are under the leadership of Secretary Deb Haaland, the long-overdue first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary and an environmental champion in her own right. Native Peoples have been stewards of the land and national…
Nestlé’s Troubled Waters
néstle: a greedy wrecking ball For decades, Nestlé Waters—the world’s largest water bottler—has bought up access to public water across North America to turn our most precious public resource into a private commodity. Arrowhead Complex San Bernardino National Forest, California Despite California’s battles with drought and forest fires, Nestlé has spent years paying virtually nothing…
International Plastic Treaty
A Global Solution to a Global Problem 175 countries are currently negotiating a legally-binding, international treaty on plastic pollution that could change the world. It’s a big deal. It’s getting down to the wire, and there’s still uncertainty as to what we’re going to get. The question remains whether this treaty will be strong enough,…
Brand Audits
What is a brand audit? A brand audit is like a litter cleanup, but—in addition to picking up trash from a beach, park, or other public area—participants audit the products, materials, and brands that are ending up in the environment. Together with our partners in the #breakfreefromplastic movement, this data will help us hold companies…
Bottle Deposits
Designing Away Plastic Pollution Plastic pollution is a huge problem, especially when it comes to beverage containers like plastic bottles. 1 million plastic bottles are now sold per minute and have become symbolic of a disposable system that’s fueling an ecological and environmental crisis. The good news is that there’s a ready-made system that can all but…
Bring Back Refill
Plastic Bottles areEmblematic of Today’sPlastic Crisis Single-use plastic bottles are fueling the petrochemical build out, are the greatest source of plastic packaging pollution, and have a clear alternative: the refillable bottle. At the core of the plastics crisis lies the idea of ‘disposability,’ which we’re tackling through an initiative to bring back the refillable bottle.…