Publications on Reuse

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Benchmark of Solutions: 7 major routes for less plasticized, more durable and reusable offerings (French)

No Plastic in My Seas

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Bringing Reusable Packaging Systems to Life 

Closed Loop Partners

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City Playbook: Building a reuse city 

Consumers Beyond Waste, World Economic Forum

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Consumers Beyond Waste: Briefing paper

World Economic Forum

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Eat Without Waste: Hong Kong’s takeout packaging challenge
ADM Capital Foundation 

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Food service businesses in Toronto are willing to change their practices around single-use and reusable foodware

The University of Toronto Trash Team and the Toronto Environmental Alliance

 

Future of Reusable Consumption Models
World Economic Forum 

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Good Coffee, Bad Cup: How to curb ocean plastic pollution by switching to refill and reuse solutions
Oceana

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Job Creation in the Re-use Sector: Data insights from social enterprises
RREUSE

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Just One Word: Refillables
Oceana

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Many Happy Returns: Combining insights from the environmental and behavioural sciences to understand what is required to make reusable packaging mainstream
Sustainable Production and Consumption

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Moving Away From Single-Use: Guide for National Decision Makers to Implement the Single-Use Plastics Directive

Rethink Plastic

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Putting Second-hand First to Create Local Jobs: Guidance for municipalities to develop local re-use strategies
Zero Waste Europe and RREUSE

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Realising Reuse: The potential for scaling up reusable packaging, and policy recommendations
Rethink Plastic Alliance 

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Reducing Packaging Waste: Choose prevention and reuse
Zero Waste Europe and Reloop

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Reusable Solutions: How governments can help stop single-use plastic pollution

Rethink Plastic Alliance

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Reusable Packaging Protects Public Health & the Environment
The Unwrapped Project

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Reusable vs. Single-Use Packaging: A review of environmental impacts
Zero Waste Europe and Reloop

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Reusables are Doable

Greenpeace USA

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Reusable Transport Packaging: State of the Industry 2020 Report

Reusable Packaging Association

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Reuse: Rethinking Packaging

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

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Reuse Wins: The environmental, economic, and business case for transitioning from single-use to reuse in food service

Upstream 

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Take-Out Catering and Waste Reduction Survey (French)

No Plastic in My Seas

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The Role of Legislation and Standards in Mainstreaming Reusable Packaging

ECOS

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Single-use beverage cups and their alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments

United Nations Environment Programme 

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Sustainability of reusable packaging–Current situation and trends

Resources, Conservation & Recycling: X

 

Unpacked: how supermarkets can cut plastic packaging in half by 2025

Greenpeace UK

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Upstream Innovation: A guide to packaging solutions 

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

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Zero Waste and Economic Recovery 
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives 

Lists and Directories of Reuse Organizations

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bepakt Archive List of Zero Waste Shops (Global)

Circular Economy Directory

Ellen MacArthur Foundation Upstream Innovation Case Study Database (Global)

Gitte-mary List of Zero Waste Shops (Global)

Litterless Zero Waste Grocery Guide (United States)

Reusable Packaging Association

UPSTREAM Reuse Business Directory (Global)

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Food Packaging Decision Making Tool

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The Understand Packaging (UP) Scorecard

Food Packaging Forum Foundation

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Report and Customizable Excel Model on Quantity and Mass of Disposable Foodware in the US

The Dirty Truth About Disposable Foodware

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