GreenToGo

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GreenToGo (est. 2017) is an award-winning reusable container system that takes the trash out of takeout. Customers get their to-go food in durable, reusable containers from our partner restaurants and grocery stores city-wide. They return their used containers to any one of the return stations across the city. We pick up, wash, and deliver.

We’re currently piloting a partnership with DeliverZero at Geer Street Garden. Stay tuned for more!

Contact us if you’re a maker, food producer, school, office, or venue that wants to switch from disposable to reusable. We make it possible!


Bull City Boomerang Bag

Our Bull City Boomerang Bag program aims to make free and equitable access to reusable bags a city-wide NORM. 🐂 🛒 A volunteer army sews reusable bags from rescued material and makes them available in grocery stores as a free resource to customers. Bull City Boomerang Bag is an important innovation to help offset equity concerns related to a fee on single-use bags, and it is an environmentally just solution to our plastic pollution problems.


Plastic Waste Prevention Policy for Durham

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Don’t Waste Durham is proposing a $.10 fee on single-use bags. We want this fee to pass because we are deeply concerned by the negative economic and health impacts of single-use bags and the environmental damage they cause. All of these impacts are borne most of all by low-wealth communities of color. It's up to elected leaders to do the right thing for the people in our community, and for industry to stop making products that hurt people. ⚖️ We are the grateful clients of the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. ⚖️


Outreach, education, and research

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  • Don’t Waste Durham speaks at conferences, leads workshops at schools and churches, hosts information tables at local events, and much more. Contact us to book!

  • We are proud of our research projects, which are supported in large part by Don’t Waste Durham interns and student collaborations at universities including, but not limited to: UNC, Duke University, and NC State.