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Indeed, what an engaging and inspiring evening! Huge thanks to Suparna Vashisht for leading the postcard table and encouraging so many attendees to take action by writing to local legislators in support of policies that advance reuse. This was just the first of THREE Bay Area events in our Plastic Inside of Us series. Next up: 📍 San Francisco – Mon, Oct 27 📍 Oakland – Wed, Oct 29 Each evening offers the same powerful mix of film, conversation, and community action —all centered on how reuse can protect our health, our planet, and our future. Invite your friends, family, and community to join us! #ReuseWins

Yesterday in Los Altos was night 1 of our 3-part series of The Plastic Inside of Us: See the Scary Truth. Stay for the Solutions. Before the movie began, the space was buzzing with local advocates sharing real actions the community can take to strengthen a more healthy and sustainable local economy. The Los Altos Community Center was a beautiful space to screen the film, and while it was an intense watch on the dangers microplastics pose to human health, it powerfully set the stage for our panelists: local changemakers working to safeguard human health by re-normalizing sustainable, reusable options over single-use plastic. Many attendees also took immediate action, signing postcards provided by The Story of Stuff Project that call on our legislators to enact and better enforce reuse policies. If you missed this first event, we’d love for you to join us next week for one of the next two: 📍 San Francisco — Monday, Oct 27 (https://lnkd.in/g2bvtTiJ) 📍 Oakland — Wednesday, Oct 29 (https://lnkd.in/gcm6zCuc) Each evening offers the same powerful mix of film, conversation, and community action —all centered on how reuse can protect our health, our planet, and our future. #ReuseWins Panelists: Rashmi Joglekar Krystal Mae Raynes Benjamin Schleifer Derek Mak Moderated by Bailey Hall Tabling Organizations: Right On! Refillery Dubara (https://www.dubara.co) GreenTown Los Altos Climate Action California Mothers Out Front Los Altos Rotary Club Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter/Community for Natural Play Surfaces Reusable Alameda County The Story of Stuff Project

Night 1 in Los Altos began with what matters most —community. Before the film, attendees were chatting, learning, and taking action with local organizations leading on reuse and sustainability to protect our health from the effects of plastic and pollution. Thank you to our incredible tablers for helping kick off the night with so much purpose and positivity (in order of appearance): Right On! Refillery Dubara (https://www.dubara.co) GreenTown Los Altos Climate Action California Mothers Out Front Los Altos Rotary Club Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter/Community for Natural Play Surfaces (CFNPS) Reusable Alameda County The Story of Stuff Project More posts about the event coming soon! #ReuseWins 🎥 Melissa S.

Our first event in Los Altos is now just a few days away! After the film, a panel of local leaders will lead a conversation on reuse as a real, community-driven solution that's already being implemented here in our local community. Meet the Los Altos panelists: Rashmi Joglekar— UCSF PRHE Advocating for science-based policies that protect communities from toxic chemicals. Krystal Mae Raynes — Californians Against Waste Championing policy change to reduce plastic pollution and protect Californians’ health. Benjamin Schleifer — Center for Environmental Health Helping schools convert to reusables and teaching kids to be conscious consumers. Derek Mak — 99Bridges Empowering businesses to minimize environmental impact while maximizing efficiency of reusable assets using technology. 🎟️ Free tickets on Eventbrite: https://lnkd.in/ga49tc6r 📍 Los Altos Community Center (Grand Oak Ballroom) 🕕 Tuesday Oct 21 · 6 PM #ReuseWins #PlasticPollution #Microplastics #CircularEconomy #BayAreaEvents #Health

The scariest costume? The plastic inside us. This October, join us for a screening of We’re All Plastic People Now — an Emmy Award–winning documentary that investigates how plastics break down into microplastics that stay inside our bodies and threaten our health. We know the topic of microplastics can feel overwhelming. The goal of our three events is to empower attendees with solutions. Each screening features a panel of local leaders who will share how reusable products and packaging are helping solve the plastics and recycling crisis — and how we can bring these solutions into our own communities. For the doers, each evening will close with an opportunity for immediate action: writing postcards to local legislators in support of policies that expand reuse infrastructure and accelerate the shift away from single-use toward the re-normalization of reuse. RSVP today! 📍Los Altos 📅 Oct 21, 6 PM 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gkFwsqfC 📍San Francisco 📅 Oct 27, 5 PM 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g2bvtTiJ 📍Oakland 📅 Oct 29, 6PM 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gcm6zCuc In the coming days, we’ll be spotlighting the panelists joining each event and the inspiring work they’re doing to make reuse the norm again.

The Bay Area Reuse Coalitions are hosting a three-part series screening of the film We’re All Plastic People Now this October! Event agenda: 🎬 We’re All Plastic People is a powerful film that exposes the negative impacts of plastic pollution and microplastics on human health. 🗣️ ️After the screening, local leaders will guide a solutions-focused conversation on how reuse is already taking root in our communities. ✍ We'll close the evening out with an opportunity for immediate action: signing postcards to legislators in support of policies that expand reuse infrastructure. South Bay Event Date: 📅 Tue, Oct 21, 6 PM 📍Los Altos Community Center 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gkFwsqfC San Francisco Event Date: 📅 Mon, Oct 27, 5 PM 📍Sports Basement Presidio 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g2bvtTiJ East Bay Event Date: 📅 Wed, Oct 29, 6 PM 📍New Parkway Theatre (Oakland) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gcm6zCuc Reusable Alameda County #ReuseWins

Thanks to our friends across the Bay Reusable Alameda County for sharing this study and working to create a reusable Bay Area!

ReusableSF is a San Francisco coalition re-normalizing the concept of reuse and advocating a swifter transition towards a circular economy. As part of SF Climate Week, the purpose of our event was to ensure reuse had a strong voice in the week-long dialogue of a lot of tech-focused climate solutions. We invited policy advocates, industry leaders, and grassroots organizers to highlight how they are accelerating reuse initiatives here in the Bay Area. During the event, we heard local wins, bold ideas, and further strengthened the momentum for building a circular economy here in the bay. Attendees shared how inspired they felt walking out — and many asked what’s next. It's clear there’s appetite for normalizing reuse in our local communities. This was our first joint-coalition event, made possible by the time and energy of a dedicated group of awesome humans: ✨ Miriam Gordon — for securing sponsorship from Story of Stuff and StopWaste and wrangling all things panelist-related ✨ Meghna Varma — for showing attendees that reuse isn’t just an idea — it’s a real solution made easy and enjoyable by reuse providers like dubara.co ✨ Cate Calson — for leading the charge on planning, logistics, and comms — all remotely! ✨ Amir Gur — for championing the effort to incorporate reusable name tags at this event and being so detail-oriented with the check-in process ✨ Sherry A. Gong, CPA — for keeping our packed panel + Q&A running on time ✨ Olivia Kureshi — for your enthusiastic, friendly presence during check-in and sharing our reuse values with attendees ✨ Summer Polster — for warmly welcoming folks at the door (despite the chilly draft, no less!) ✨ Sergey Komardenkov — for smoothing out our check-in bottleneck ✨ Daniel Zauber — for walking attendees through our (very full) arrival process — name tags, check-ins, cups...we had a lot to communicate! ✨ the panelists for sharing their insight on their work to strengthen our local reuse economy (a separate post highlighting each of you to follow!) And to anyone else not mentioned above — we appreciate your support! An important point made during our event: a panelist called out the contradiction of holding a sustainability-focused event in a space owned by a supporter of Zionist efforts, which I've learned are greenwashing the violence against Palestinians. We deeply appreciate that truth and oversight being called out. A sustainable community is a just one and thus, collective liberation is not a concern outside the lane of the reuse and circularity movements. The event certainly wasn't perfect but it was full of connection and learning how to build a more circular community. That’s what we'll continue to do — together. If you were there and heard the panel: What stuck with you? What ideas or quotes are you particularly excited about? We’d love for you to add your takeaways in the comments or tag us in your own posts. #Reuse #CircularEconomy #BayAreaEvents #SFClimateWeek #ZeroWaste #ReusableSF