COVID-19 Updates: PLAN Events, Hiring and Staff Support, Move-Out Programs
To the PLAN Network: Things have been changing rapidly. At the beginning of last week, only a handful of colleges and universities had closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak in the United States. By mid-week, we were tracking dozens of schools announcing that they...
Exciting News of Growth and Leadership Transition
From PLAN’s Board of Directors: Friends of PLAN, You all know our origin story. In 2010, Alex Freid and other students at the University of New Hampshire began to organize the Trash to Treasure (T2T) yard sale, a project that would evolve into the Post-Landfill Action...
5 Reasons Why The Diversion Metric Does Not Measure Zero Waste
For the last few decades, international and US organizations have collectively understood the standard definition of “Zero Waste” to mean: “Achieving 90% diversion from landfills and incinerators.” The overwhelming majority of institutions that set a goal of achieving...
California Introduces Strongest Plastic Reduction Bills in the Country
SB 54 and AB 1080 Explained The California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act (SB 54 and AB 1080), was introduced last December by California Senator Allen and Assemblywoman Gonzalez to address the plastic waste crisis. It comes at a critical time,...Meet the Staff: Iyanu Corniel
I’m Iyanu (pronounced ee-YAH-noo). I use she/her pronouns and serve as PLAN’s Director of Partnerships. I’ve been part of the PLAN network for two years, first as a student organizer at my member school (shout out to New College of Florida), then as a PLANtern (that’s what we call PLAN interns), and now, as a […]
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