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Welcome to a curated database of rigorous reporting on responses to social problems.

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  • Half-marathon in UK bans plastic water bottles

    Katherine Martinko
    2018-10-25 18:48:56 UTC
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    September 12, 2018 |

    TreeHugger |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, Greenwich, Greater London

    Marathons can serve many purposes that have positive impacts on communities. However, they can also lead an influx of discarded water bottles along the running route. For a Greenwich half-marathon, organizers are attempting to change this by banning plastic bottles and enforcing the use of Ooho water pouches that are both edible and biodegradable.

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  • Recyclers, The Final Link in the Long Nosara Trash Crisis

    César Arroyo
    2018-10-31 02:06:57 UTC
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    September 10, 2018 |

    La Voz de Guanacaste |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Costa Rica, Nosara

    Nosara, a district in the Costa Rican region of Nicoya Peninsula, is being overcome with trash after the Nicoya City Hall closed the local dump. Because local officials have been slow to act, citizens have had to take matters into their own hands that includes creating their own recycling company.

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  • Sonoma County experts among others who say it's time to rethink recycling

    Stephen Nett
    2018-09-29 17:10:53 UTC
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    September 01, 2018 |

    The Press Democrat |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Petaluma, California

    Many companies are increasingly becoming concerned about the environmental impact of using plastic containers and packaging. One company in Petaluma has spent over a decade creating alternatives that are compostable and recyclable.

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  • Norway Has A Radical Approach To Plastic Pollution, And It's Working

    Lucy Siegle
    2018-08-27 21:48:13 UTC
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    August 22, 2018 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Norway

    Plastic comes at a cost for Norwegian plastic producers. Implementing an environmental tax has lead many producers to join what is known as the nationwide bottle deposit scheme. When consumers return their used plastic container, they receive cash or store credit and the plastic producers are taxed less.

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  • This restaurant takeout service swaps styrofoam for sustainable

    Teresa Carey
    2019-11-12 12:15:12 UTC
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    August 21, 2018 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    Eliminating single use plastics requires developing alternatives for consumers. In Durham, North Carolina, Green-to-Go offers a reusable container service for take-out orders. Users can download the Green-to-Go app, which links to participating take-out restaurants. A reusable take-out container replaces the need of as many as 1,000 single use containers, marking an important step toward a circular-use economy.

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  • The Conflict of Interest That Is Killing Recycling

    David Bornstein
    2018-10-01 17:20:13 UTC
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    August 15, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Recycling is having a moment of reckoning across the United States as many people continue to dispose of garbage in recycle bins. Mitch Hedlund, executive director of Recycle Across America, explains that a lack of public outreach and education is to blame. Through implementing a labeling system, however, the organization has seen an uptick in people successfully designating their trash to the correct bin.

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  • What Munich's coffee houses learned about waste from beer culture

    Valerie Hamilton
    2018-09-17 17:40:20 UTC
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    August 14, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany, Munich, Bavaria

    Munich's beer gardens have been longtime participants in reusable mugs, but the landfills were still filling up with discarded coffee cups. Taking a page from the beer garden philosophy, startup Recup is testing out a returnable coffee cup that utilizes a deposit system. Although not without its limitations, many local cafes have already begun implementing the system.

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  • Boulder now saving more than half of trash from landfill

    Shay Castle
    2018-08-20 21:03:47 UTC
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    August 14, 2018 |

    The Denver Post |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    Boulder is often referred to as one of Colorado's most progressive cities, so when the city passed the Universal Zero Waste Ordinance, many local businesses decided to take the policy a step further by eliminating their use of plastics altogether. What started as an effort put forth by local store branches such as PrAna and Lululemon has quickly scaled to a citywide effort eliminate non-compostable or non-recyclable trash output.

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  • How to get rewards for your rubbish

    Harriet Noble
    2018-09-02 18:54:23 UTC
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    August 13, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Waste has value, says Bilikiss Abiola, founder of Wecyclers. Her team travels through the slums in Lagos on bicycles, paying families cash in exchange for their recyclable trash. The business has made the city cleaner and created at least 80 jobs.

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  • How one Canadian food court eliminated 117 bags of garbage a day

    Emily Chung
    2018-08-27 23:13:42 UTC
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    August 10, 2018 |

    CBC |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Toronto

    A food court in Toronto was generating 120 bags of trash per day due to serving their fast food varietals in non-recyclable containers. After changing the way they serve food and how they market the feasibility of recycling and composting to food court customers, they have seen their garbage output reduced to only three bags per day.

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Solutions Story Tracker® FAQ

  • Solutions journalism…
    • Describes a response to a problem and how it works.
    • Seeks to draw out insights that explain success or failure.
    • Presents the available evidence about the effectiveness of a response.
    • Explains the shortcomings or limitations of the response.
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  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, searchable database of solutions journalism stories — rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We vet and tag every story in the Story Tracker, which offers an inspiring and useful collection of the thousands of ways people are working to solve problems around the world.

  • You can learn more about how we source, vet, and tag stories here, as well as how we share them. We also have video tutorials in Spanish and French that show how to use the Solutions Story Tracker to find what you need.

  • Story collections are curated by our staff or other partners to explore a theme, pattern, or trend via selected solutions stories and external resources. Some story collections focus on an in-depth exploration of a topic with solutions journalism; others highlight journalists and how they report on topics. Certain story collections include discussion questions and notes, so that educators and community discussion leaders can lead learners to fully engage with the stories.

  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is powered by user submissions. We encourage submissions from journalists, as well as from anyone who has an eye for solutions journalism. Click here to submit. (Why submit? So many reasons!)

  • You can submit a story directly on the Solutions Story Tracker®. You will be prompted to register or log into the Solutions Journalism Network website, if you are already logged in. (It is free to register!) Logging in allows you to track the status of your submissions under My Profile, as well as save your favorite stories, create story collections and story alerts, and access other helpful features of our website.

  • After you submit a story to us and assign it a topic, it is sent to one of our Solutions Story Tracker team members. Our team member evaluates the story for the four qualities of solutions journalism, and on the basics: The story must come from a news outlet and have a date and a byline. If the story meets our criteria, our team tags it accordingly and adds it to the database. If the story falls short of the mark, our team will include the reason why. We include stories in the Story Tracker that meet our standards of solutions journalism. Inclusion does not mean we support the initiatives, policies, organizations or approaches featured in those stories.

    Discover common reasons why a story may miss the mark for inclusion in the Solutions Story Tracker®.

    Learn more about the history of the database.

  • Solutions Journalism Network features these stories in the searchable database making them publicly accessible to anyone who wants to search for rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. Any story that is added has the potential to make more impact than its original purpose. Added stories are used in journalism trainings, school curricula, research projects, and independent analysis on issue area trends. This now includes artificial intelligence tools, which are applied for educational value to find stories and support story vetting, as well as to extract insights from the stories. SJN has digital products and newsletters that give new life and exposure to the stories meeting people where they are at. Story data also is used to develop innovative tools to reach the general public with solutions journalism as well as some specific research projects requested by researchers. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of story data or added stories, please contact Lita Tirak.

  • News outlets determine whether all users can access their stories — and some limit the number of stories that anyone can view, or require a subscription. The majority of stories in the database can be accessed for free.

  • We work with journalists, academic researchers and others who feel that our database will support their research. We are especially interested in research that seeks to develop new insights about solutions journalism and its spread and its impact on social problems. Please complete all sections of the Data Request Form, and we will contact you to discuss your request in greater detail.

  • We do not fact-check the stories in the Solutions Story Tracker®. We do ensure that each story comes from a credible news source that has its own editorial infrastructure.

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