Click on links below for articles, reports and data to support your advocacy.

• Sierra Club articles:

  •  Sierra Club articles on single-use plastic

• Sierra Club webinars:

  • Waste-to-Energy/incineration webinar presented by the Single-Use Plastic Plus Subcommittee, January 18, 2024.

    • Incineration Slides
    • Sierra Guidance on Destructive Disposal Processes

• Plastic Free July Storytelling Contest presented by California Zero Waste Committee, Loma Prieta Chapter Environmental Stewardship Program, Grassroots Network Single Use Plastic Plus Subteam and Wildlands and Wilderness Team, July 31, 2023

• Turning Takeout Green webinar presented by the Washington, DC Chapter Zero Waste Committee, July 12, 2021

• Exploring Innovative Takeout Container Solutions webinar presented by the Washington, DC Chapter Zero Waste Committee, March, 2021 

• Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging and Paper Products webinar presented by the Maryland Chapter Zero Waste Team, January 6, 2021

• Other resources

  • ReThink Disposable case studies on cost savings, trash savings and break-even point for various restaurant types

  • Upstream Solutions Reuse Wins report with useful reuse facts and comparisons to compostables

  • Upstream Solutions Reusable Business Directory (Provided only for informational purposes and is not a Sierra Club endorsement of the listed businesses.)

  • Incineration:

    • Tishman Incineration Report (2019) & GAIA webinar on the report

    • GAIA resources:  Pollution and Health Impacts of Waste-to-Energy Incineration, Myths vs Facts about incinerators, Questions to ask about incinerators.

    • Energy Justice Network Incineration resources

  • Chemical recycling:

    • Beyond Plastics REPORT | Chemical Recycling: A Dangerous Deception (2023)

    • Just-Zero Report: Loopholes, Injustice, & the “Advanced Recycling” Myth (2022)