Nominations are now closed.

Stay tuned to learn the finalists for The Reusies® 2022!

Call for Nominations: March 4 - March 30, 2022

Nominations are now open for the second annual National Reuse Awards™: celebrating heroes of the reuse movement across North America. This year, we’ve expanded the pool outside of the U.S. to include our friends in Canada, and we’re presenting an exciting new award category recognizing Corporate Initiative. We’re also selecting four winners in the Most Innovative Reuse Company category across the Food & Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods, Fashion & Apparel, and Enabling Technologies sectors. And last but not least, we’re happy to again celebrate the groups and individuals driving reuse forward in their local communities with the Reuse Community of the Year and Activist of the Year awards.

You can self-nominate or nominate others. So, submit your picks today - deadline for submissions is 11:59 PM PT March 30, 2022.

See how it works here.

 

The Awards

You can self-nominate or nominate others.

 

This award is intended for businesses that provide a service that keeps reusables circulating in our economy. This year, we’re awarding four winners across the following sectors:

  • Food & Beverage

  • Consumer Packaged Goods

  • Fashion & Apparel

  • Enabling Technologies

 

This award is intended for Fortune 500 companies who demonstrate excellence in piloting and implementing reusable packaging and reuse services in North America, such as a food and beverage corporation or Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) company expanding and/or prioritizing its reuse and refill line.

 

This award recognizes community groups, organizations, and coalitions across North America who are moving reuse strategies, initiatives, and/or policies forward in their communities. This includes local 501(c)3 organizations but is not limited to them and can include established coalitions of 501(c)3s and/or volunteers working together.

 

This award is intended for the individual changemakers and heroes who are championing reduce, refill and reuse solutions in their communities.

How It Works

 

The public call for nominations is open until March 30, 2022. Anyone can nominate their reuse heroes - companies, community groups and individuals can also nominate themselves. The nomination forms collect basic information about the nominee and why they should be nominated - it takes less than 10 minutes to fill out.

After public nominations close, nominees will be vetted to make sure they qualify – and anyone who does will be invited to apply to move on to the finalist round. At that point, the nominees themselves will need to provide more in-depth information including metrics, if available (this process should take 6 - 8 weeks).

Finalists will then be chosen by committees comprised of experts from leading environmental organizations, designers, and investors, alongside The Reusies’ Partners.

Finalists will be notified and announced in a national press release in late Spring/early Summer. At which point, public voting opens and judges will be evaluating finalists. All finalists will receive a promotional toolkit to share their nomination and encourage voting across their networks.

Seven (7) award winners will be announced during The Reusies broadcast, scheduled for this Fall.

  • Corporate Leadership  (1 award)

  • Most Innovative Reuse Company (4 awards)

    • Food & Beverage

    • Consumer Packaged Goods

    • Fashion & Apparel

    • Enabling Technologies

  • Reuse Community of the Year (1 award)

  • Activist of the Year (1 award)

Who can be a Reusies nominee?

 

Calling companies: are you a business providing a reuse solution in the U.S. or Canada to help advance a waste-free world? 

Calling corporations: are you part of a Fortune 500 company that demonstrates excellence in piloting and implementing reusable packaging and reuse services?

Calling community groups: are you an organization helping to advance reuse solutions in your community?

Calling all individuals: are you or someone you know an inspiring changemaker championing reduce, refill and reuse solutions in their community?

If your answer is YES to any one of these questions, then what are you waiting for?