Reloop Brief

Can reusable packaging become mainstream reality? In this episode of The Reloop Brief , Barry Snedden speaks with Sam Pearce, Campaigns Director at The Story of Stuff Project , about the organisation's new animation...

In this episode, Shraddha Kumar continues her conversation with Emily Alfred from the Toronto Environmental Alliance , looking at what major events can teach us about reuse in practice. While full reuse did not make it...

What can the world's biggest sporting events teach us about making reuse work? ♻️ In this episode, Shraddha Kumar speaks with Emily Alfred, Senior Waste Campaigner at the Toronto Environmental Alliance , about the...

In this episode of The Reloop Brief , Shraddha Kumar speaks with Rob Kelman, Reloop Pacific Director, about Australia’s 20 Cents Makes Sense campaign and the push to increase container refund values from 10 cents to 20...

In this episode of the Reloop Brief, Barry Snedden speaks with Ciaran Foley from Re-turn about how Ireland’s deposit system is performing just over two years after launch. They discuss the strong progress the scheme has...

Single-use coffee cups have become a major contributor to city waste streams. Around 500 billion single-use cups are disposed of globally every year , and cities spend roughly 30–50% of their urban litter budgets...

In this year-end special, we rewind through an eventful 2025—the year that Reloop turned ten and The Reloop Brief began. Host, Barry Snedden revisits standout moments from the season: activist Merijn “Plastic Soup...

In this episode, Barry Snedden takes us behind the scenes with Jason Wilcox, Reloop’s Data & Dashboard Manager, to see how evidence turns into action. Jason explains the goals of Reloop's two live dashboards: What We...

Spain is on the cusp of introducing a national deposit return system for beverage containers by 2026. In this episode, Barry Snedden sits down with Miquel Roset, Director of Retorna, to discuss what must happen next to...

For this episode, we visit France as Shraddha Kumar checks in with Reloop’s Director for France and Francophonie, Alexis Eisenberg. Together, they cover why a national deposit return system is still pending, how a major...

To mark Reloop’s 10th anniversary EU Green Week event— Reloop Unpacks —we asked participants two simple questions: What will the next 10 years bring for the circular economy and for Reloop? What were your key takeaways...

In this episode of the Reloop Brief, Shraddha Kumar catches up with Reloop's Director for the Pacific, Rob Kelman, on the latest from Australia. With several states expanding existing schemes to include wine & spirit...

In this special episode of the Reloop Brief, we listen in on the Reloop Unpacks conference held in Brussels in June 2025. Clarissa Morawski moderates a fast-moving panel on how digital and AI tools are reshaping the way...

In this episode of the Reloop Brief, Barry Snedden checks in with Joe Papineschi, Chairperson for Eunomia Research & Consulting, for a post-INC 5.2 debrief. They unpack why the plastics treaty negotiations ended without...

In this episode of the Reloop Brief, Shraddha Kumar is joined by Marian Ledesma, Zero Waste Campaigner for Greenpeace Philippines, to unpack the complex reality of sachet economies. Marian explains how small...