NEW Circular Economy Program

As You Sow began its Waste Program over 20 years ago, pushing companies on recyclability, recycled content, and waste. The massive proliferation of plastic packaging and single use plastics has far outstripped recycling’s ability to contain the waste and the problems the waste creates. We are transitioning to a circular economy perspective focused on minimizing extraction, designing for reuse and repair, and eliminating waste entirely.

Our goal is to move companies away from today’s linear take-make-waste economy to an economy where products are circulated repeatedly, through durable design, ownership-sharing, reuse, repair, refurbishment, remanufacturing, and only as a last resort, recycling.

Join us in embracing a future that
replaces “throw-away” with
“waste–free”