Earth911 Podcast: ReUser Founder James Wilson Introduces a Reusable Takeout Packaging Service

Earth911 Podcast: ReUser Founder James Wilson Introduces a Reusable Takeout Packaging Service

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Making circular living straightforward for folks is the important thing to reaching our sustainability objectives. The take-make-waste linear economic system has excelled at making the disposal of merchandise and packaging straightforward, however provided that you contemplate the landfill an environmentally accountable answer (it’s not). Now we have to make amassing and reusing gadgets as handy as tossing packaging within the trash after one use. James Wilson, the founding father of Hickory Corners, Michigan-based reUser, which is working to cut back the quantity of meals service and takeout packaging waste with reusable containers for college and corporate cafeterias, joins the dialog to debate constructing round providers.

James Wilson, founder of reusable takeout packaging tracker reUser
James Wilson, founding father of reusable takeout packaging tracker reUser, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

Currently obtainable at Wesleyan, Trinity, and Cornerstone Universities, the reUser providers mix handy drop-off bins positioned on campuses with a cell app that helps diners observe and return takeout containers and perceive the influence of their reuse habits. reUser’s platform represents the start of a group, cleansing, and reuse economic system that might be attached to many linear customer experiences, equivalent to the gathering of e-commerce packing containers from houses and workplaces, restoration of hard-to-recycle packaging, and, after all, within the quick meals and fast service restaurant trade. There are many steps to grasp in any service expertise, and reUser is an intriguing instance of how native round providers might develop. You can be taught extra about reUser at reuser.app.