OUR PLANET haS taken care of us for so long. It's now time to return the favour.
Policy makers & enterprise have had their chance to do the right thing. Is it right that our children are facing the catastrophic hangovers from events they're not responsible for? When did it become okay to fill our oceans with plastics, obliterate our rain forrests, and bury our waste? As a planet we're fighting to find solutions fast. As a group, we decided it's time to make change today.
We're not the solution, but just a part of the groundswell. Talk is cheap. It's time to bring consumers, business leaders & brand designers together - laterally - to collaborate, and design a better way. It's time to solve this, from the ground up., by engaging those responsible.
Return-Refresh-Reuse (rrr) is a grass roots collective. It's local action, by local businesses wanting to make immediate changes, from today.
We've been born out of a number of small businesses that have challenged the status quo around waste. Why is recycling the best option? Why not reuse? The answer historically has been an easy one - profit. The cost of recovering bottles & containers in the food & beverage industry has traditionally far outweighed the efforts & costs of contributing & supporting recycling.
What if recycling was made a fall back solution? Well that's what we're building. Since 2018 our founding member Hippie Kombucha, has been driving a change around reuse. Refusing to send containers to the State's Containers for Change program, Hippie instead sought WA"s first and only (at the time) approval to operate as an exempted business, based on their reuse efforts.
This requires their business to not only recover, but clean, sanitise, & re-index perfectly good assets for reuse in their networks & chains. Sure it wasn't the fastest & most financially sound decision initially, but it's leading to better business.
With over 8 million new tonnes of plastic entering our oceans every year, have we left it too long?
Inviting conscious businesses to join our growing network, share their great work, collaborate and help us move towards a world where single-use packaging is a thing of the past.
We've left it to the policy makers for too long, and it's clear, they haven't listened & acted when they should have. The good news is, consumers have, and are taking action.
There's a real ground-swell of conscious businesses addressing this same issue.
Let's educate & collaborate. Whether you're a business that recycles, repurposes, or reuses, let's share our wins & encourage others to join the revolution of reuse - it's time to give credit to the creators, and the planet.
We've been born out of a number of small businesses that have challenged the status quo around waste. Why is recycling the best option? Why not reuse? The answer historically has been an easy one - profit. The cost of recovering bottles & containers in the food & beverage industry has traditionally far outweighed the efforts & costs of contributing & supporting recycling.
What if recycling was made a fall back solution? Well that's what we're building. Since 2018 our founding member Hippie Kombucha, has been driving a change around reuse. Refusing to send containers to the State's Containers for Change program, Hippie instead sought WA"s first and only (at the time) approval to operate as an exempted business, based on their reuse efforts.
This requires their business to not only recover, but clean, sanitise, & re-index perfectly good assets for reuse in their networks & chains. Sure it wasn't the fastest & most financially sound decision initially, but it's leading to better business.
With over 8 million new tonnes of plastic entering our oceans every year, have we left it too long?
Inviting conscious businesses to join our growing network, share their great work, collaborate and help us move towards a world where single-use packaging is a thing of the past.
We've left it to the policy makers for too long, and it's clear, they haven't listened & acted when they should have. The good news is, consumers have, and are taking action.
There's a real ground-swell of conscious businesses addressing this same issue.
Let's educate & collaborate. Whether you're a business that recycles, repurposes, or reuses, let's share our wins & encourage others to join the revolution of reuse - it's time to give credit to the creators, and the planet.