Imagine receiving your to-go coffee in a borrowed durable cup that keeps the coffee warm until the last drop. When you are done, you toss it into one of many conveniently placed collection bins around town, where it is picked up, washed, and sanitized, to be used again and again. If you could easily borrow and return reusable cups and containers every time you got food or drinks to go, at no cost to you as long as you returned the item, would you do it? 

Reusable foodware programs can offer a better and healthier eating and drinking experience, reduce waste and litter, create good local jobs, keep more money in the local economy, reduce the toxic emissions associated with extraction, transportation and manufacturing of single use plastics, and deliver reductions in net greenhouse gas emissions. 

Would reuse work in Ann Arbor? How might it work best for our community?

Together with the City of Ann Arbor, Zerowaste.org and Recycle Ann Arbor and the reuse experts at non-profit Perpetual are partnering to explore the opportunity of establishing a city-wide reusable foodware program in our community. 

We want to hear from you! Please join us at one of our drop-in Interactive Community Workshops, where you can learn about reuse, imagine how it would work for Ann Arbor, and provide input to design a system that works for everyone in our community.

On-site childcare will be available at all three public workshops, at no cost. All participants will also receive their choice of $10 of tokens for the Farmers Market or $10 off of costs at the Drop-Off Station. Participants with a Michigan Bridge Card will receive a $40 stipend for your participation.
We ask that all attendees register in advance to allow us to plan accordingly. 

Your input is invaluable!  We hope you will join us for a journey into the reuse landscape!!