With the global population estimated to be over 7.7 billion people, and growing, we need to embrace systems that move us away from the use of single-use products and packaging that produce large amounts of greenhouse gasses and deplete our already scarce resources.  

While it’s important to recycle and further enhance the systems for it, we need to look at solutions further up the Resource Hierarchy to help solve the global waste crisis. Establishing and embracing reuse systems for packaging, including take-back programs, sanitizing processes, refilling, and logistics, is critical to a circular economy.