Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Training: Re-use Bootcamp / Training
Type: free training for changemakers / local campaign organizing / leadership
Organization: The Story of Stuff
Location: remote / anywhere in Canada / USA / Global

The Story of Stuff is still being written — and you have a role to play.

We’re inviting you to join Winning a Reusable Future: Changemaker Bootcamp — a three-part training series designed to help you build a better future rooted in reuse.

Whether you’re new to organizing or already leading efforts in your community, this bootcamp will help you:

1. Understand the plastics and waste crises
2. Explore how reuse systems can transform communities
3. Learn organizing skills to build local campaigns and drive change
4. Connect with other Changemakers and become part of a growing movement

Want to learn about why reuse is the answer to our waste crisis? Read more here.

This online training is divided into two sessions (modules) that are each 90-minutes long. There is an optional third module for leadership training.

Learn more, Sign up:

https://www.storyofstuff.org/changemaker-bootcamp/

 

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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 bill to manage the 6 million tons of waste created. That’s not counting the billions more in environmental damage and impacts on public health. Yikes.

Single-use products waste natural resources, pollute our air and water, and pump out greenhouse gases that drive climate change. The plastics keep us addicted to fossil fuel development and prop up the oil and gas industry. They hit hardest in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color where the fracking, manufacturing, landfills, and incinerators are often located.

Most of this stuff can’t be recycled or composted—no matter what the label says. It’s too dirty, too mixed, or just not accepted. And “biodegradable” packaging is no panacea. It contaminates compost and most often it ends up in the trash. We can’t recycle or compost our way out of this.

THE SOLUTION

The solution...

 

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