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Reuse or recycle plastic packaging? Recycling is not a solution to the plastic crisis, but reuse is. Reuse is an essential tool in the fight against plastic pollution. It is a solution to reduce plastic production, to cut down waste, and to achieve climate targets. The introduction of comprehensive reuse systems presents a vital opportunity to move away from the linear pathways of production and waste of single-use packaging materials, and their negative effects on our climate, environment, biodiversity, and health.

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Cover: Facilitating the Adoption of Takeaway Reuse Systems

Facilitating the Adoption of Takeaway Reuse Systems

This report highlights the critical role of public authorities in advancing reuse systems for takeaway packaging. It shows that switching from single-use to reuse could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lower hidden costs like litter and carbon impacts.

Cover: European Reuse Barometer

European Reuse Barometer

The first edition of the European Reuse Barometer sets light on positive insights driving the reuse transition such as reuse industry growth and very engaged customers. However, the current fragmented and uncoordinated reuse ecosystem urgently needs to be streamlined and unified to achieve a true market transformation.

Cover: Beyond Sachets: Buliding a Reuse Economy

Beyond Sachets: Building a Reuse Economy

Sachets are a significant source of plastic pollution. This 4-pager looks at sachets in the context of the Global Plastics Treaty and explores how we can pivot to real, systemic solutions like reuse and refill systems.

Title: Life Before Plastic: Demonstrating Traditional Practices of Reuse in Africa (2024), Traditional storage containers, red background

Life Before Plastic: Demonstrating Traditional Practices of Reuse in Africa (2024)

This report explores the plastic problem in Africa and examines the laws, policies and multilateral agreements put in place to govern waste management and trade.It also showcases examples of traditional practices made of natural materials widely used across the African continent as alternatives to plastic.

Screenshot of Website. Left: Scale Reuse Systems. Right: Jars with preserved products

Reuse Solutions

This website explains reuse and reuse systems, shares success stories and provides resources. It also offers a call to action for individuals and organizations.

Explore Topics: 9 database topics

Global Plastic Laws

Global Plastic Laws is an extensive database and resource library focused on plastic legislation that has been passed around the world.

Blue washing machine with waste. On top: Sustainable Waste Management

Sustainable waste management - A guide for the healthcare sector

This fact sheet illustrates health care waste management, composition, segregation and prevention with graphs and visual materials.

Website Screenshot "We Choose Reuse"

We Choose Reuse

Website, Toolkit

The campaign pushes for ambitious and robust reuse solutions to the plastic pollution crisis. They engage with decision-makers, businesses, municipalities and the wider public to advocate for a future where reusable packaging is scaled up and robust reuse systems are put in place.

Cover of "Refill Again"

Refill Again

This analysis found that a 10-percentage point increase in reusable packaging by 2030 can eliminate over 1 trillion single-use plastic bottles and cups. This shift has the potential to prevent up to 153 billion of these containers from entering the world’s oceans and waterways.

Cover of "Uncovered: Unilever’s complicity in the plastics crisis and its power to solve it (2023)"

Uncovered: Unilever’s complicity in the plastics crisis and its power to solve it (2023)

In this report, Greenpeace International exposes the blight of Unilever’s single-use sachets on low-income communities and the glaring gap that exists between what the company says it will do, and what it actually does.

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