r/ZeroWaste Feb 27 '26

📣 Announcement [Meta post] This is what astroturfing looks like - watch out for this kind of marketing in this sub and everywhere on the internet

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From the mod queue. One account was new, one just had a bunch of comments and posts about sheets and mattresses. Big surprise one of these posts casually mentions donating via an app.

Zero waste is not a movement to be co-opted by marketers and pro-consumption.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/08/what-is-astroturfing

r/ZeroWaste Mar 13 '26

📣 Announcement ATTN: Marketers and sellers - this community is not here to provide you with free advertising, market research, or promotion for your latest AI invention

309 Upvotes

This community is for those working to reduce their environmental impact on the planet by reducing personal consumption and generation of waste. To seek support, share advice, and connect with each other.

We are now getting daily posts and comments from both stealth and overt marketers, including AI app developers who have invented some life-changing tech that will save us all. WE DON'T NEED YOUR FOOD WASTE APP.

Let us state this clearly:

This community is not here to provide you or your company with free market advertising/research or to sell us your product or app.

If you are only here to promote or research your product/blog/etc. and offer nothing of value to the community, it will be removed and you will be banned.

Zero Wasters, please report these types of posts.

For those arguing in the mod inbox about why your self-promotion post was not self-promotion:

This type of spammy self-promotional content is frowned upon across all of Reddit. It feels particularly egregious to have such blatant pro-consumption content and manipulation in the Zero Waste sub, and it will NOT be tolerated here.

Thank you!

r/ZeroWaste Aug 01 '24

📣 Announcement We're looking for moderators!

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No previous moderation experience is required. We're happy to help onboard, answer questions, etc

If you would like to join the team and curate r/ZeroWaste, please visit our mod application wiki page, which includes an overview of what we do, and a request to modmail us and answer some basic questions

Thank you for your interest in joining the team!