Age of Plastic

On today’s episode, I’m speaking with Dr Laura Foster, Head of Clean Seas at the Marine Conservation Society. They have begun their #stopoceanthreads campaign. This is a petition calling for washing machine manufacturers to fit microfibre filters in all new domestic and commercial machines, by law, by 2023 and retrofitted in commercial machines by 2024.

If you weren’t sure about the amount of micro plastic that comes from washing the stains out of your clothes…you’re about to find out…
To help #stopoceanthreads – sign the petition here: https://www.mcsuk.org/what-you-can-do/campaigns/stop-ocean-threads/

Dr Imogen Napper on the Age of Plastic Podcast
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KUBIK turn plastic waste into low-carbon buildings, and the start up has just been awarded Africa’s Start Up of the Year!
100% Plastic Waste and 40% Cheaper. Today I’m joined by Kidus Asfaw Co founder and CEO to tell us the story of Kubik, which he came to via charity Unicef and companies like Google. Find out Kubik is, how his co-founder Penda Marre came to design it, brilliant environmental innovations across the continent of Africa, how bad construction is for the planet and some really emotional stories of landfill waste in his birth city of Addis in Ethiopia plus the hiding of waste in San Francisco, and one of the best suggestions for Plastic Items we are thankful for, ever.
https://www.buildkubik.com/

Eco Bricks (not Kubik)
https://www.seasaltash.org.uk/eco-bricks-are-not-ok/

More plastic innovation from Kenya
https://news.yahoo.com/kenyan-woman-finds-way-recycle-053411779.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2FzdGUzNjAuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACCs3O_sFh0aEk_sDCcgttyVjEbQXBmJSvPu4B99obCMr3xiNIxOPUAy4Ib7dJD8K--SbQw0wAM5GAsW2X8pRlNt0U_opmdlYouZe2A10QuDuLtbGeWAeSsLJGfhVnNund-LZD1OvtM56YO-VZqQSeUnmaN7zTJ7R6WvnwX0H5Gk

Zero Waste Shops
https://inews.co.uk/news/zero-waste-shopping-crisis-refill-stores-1522978

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Sorry for the silence, I’ve been ill, not Covid.

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we’ve spoken to plastic alternative innovators on this podcast before. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a lovely space online to showcase these innovations - heck maybe even with an award? 

BEYONDPLASTIC is the brainchild of Ulrich Krzyminski, an entrepreneur, engineer & inventor with a particular insight into the printing and packaging industry. As well as showcasing plastic alternatives, they have the Beyond Plastic Awards with categories like Most Practical Impact’, ‘Most Innovative Approach’, and  ‘Most Beautiful Solution’. And not only that, they’ve put all the innovations and solutions they discovered into a beautiful book!

Talking to me from his home in Frankfurt Germany here’s Beyond Plastic Founder Ulrich Krzyminski
https://beyondplastic.net/

LISTEN: Plastic wrap that’s edible and made from seaweed (that’s Notpla)
https://podfollow.com/age-of-plastic/episode/48cb0fce573dd9733a016260a94f172dd5c20136/view

LISTEN:  Plastic alternative made from a polymer created by tiny ocean bugs (Newlight Technologies Aircarbon) https://podfollow.com/age-of-plastic/episode/22770c30b7dc3a8d9ed66cc3caa41014a8fb32ed/view

READ: How I'm Managing Guilt Every Time I Throw Things Away
https://www.thegoodtrade.com/features/decluttering-guilt?utm_source=The+Daily+Good&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=read

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Circular skincare! By Product Beauty! What is it? Find out about Upcircle Beauty from co-founder Anna Brightman. They’re a natural, sustainable, refillable skincare brand, that is vegan, certified cruelty-free, comes in plastic-free packaging and many of their products have won awards… and you may have seen her and her brother on BBC’s Dragons Den a few years ago!

Upcircle Beauty 

https://upcirclebeauty.com/

How we can all be activists with Mikaela Loach

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Venetia La Manna

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/pretty-little-thing-protest-molly-mae-hague-b2017557.html

Aluminium lunchboxes if you don’t like jars

https://uk.buymeonce.com/collections/black-blum?utm_source=Subscribed%20%26%20Not%20Supressed&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Black%20and%20Blum%20launch&_kx=8bmwfGoVobOMVFAiyOr2gC79elNprzhAmnMtdFXsb2E%3D.LnJCX9

ECO LIFE HACK
Recycle your Covid Lateral Flow Test

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Dotte hopes to be a one stop, fully circular solution for parents for kids clothes. Buy, Sell, Donate, Recycle and more.  According to Dotte shopping 2nd hand can save 75% of Co2 emissions caused by clothing. I’m chatting with Louise today as we find out what recycled clothes are used for and what percentage of parents throw kids clothes away because they don’t know what to do with do with them?

https://www.wearedotte.com/

For sustainable toys: Whirli on the Age of Plastic Podcast

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Great Ted Talk  

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Big companies, making bigs change has a big impact… Garnier UK have launched their ONE  GREEN STEP campaign. Today we hear about that and their environmental pledges for 2025 and from their partner NGO Plastics For Change.

Emily Bryne Garnier UK One Green Step

https://www.garnier.co.uk/onegreenstep

Andrew Almack Plastics For Change

https://www.plasticsforchange.org/

ECO LIFE HACKS

Worlds first zero waste palette

https://athrbeauty.com/products/new-rose-quartz-crystal-gemstone-10-pan-palette

Made from compostable “fibre form” and contain absolutely no plastic or metal

https://www.superdrug.com/Make-Up/Eye-Makeup/Eye-Shadow/Eye-Shadow-Palettes/Planet-Revolution-Space-Marble-Shadow-Palette/p/809386#pdp__details

Bamboo Refillable Makeup

https://zaomakeup.com/en/

Kjaer Weis

https://kjaerweis.com/

REN SKINCARE Zero Waste Pledge

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This is a little taster of all the brilliant guests on the latest series of the Age of Plastic Podcast.

A huge huge huge thank you to all our guests this series for giving their time, and to every single person who has ever spoken to me for the Age of Plastic Podcast.

A massive massive massive thank you to you for listening.

I'd love to know what you would like to hear in 2022.

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Discover the joy of plogging, beach clean ups and a bit of plastic craft!

Today’s guest is Flora Blathwayt, founder of greetings cards company Washed Up Cards, a project she started whilst furloughed in lockdown. These cards are almost plastic free, having been made using plastic found washed up on rivers and beaches around the UK. 

Washed Up Cards

https://washedupcards.uk/

Washed Up Cards Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/washedupcards/

Thames 21

https://www.thames21.org.uk/

Addidas Parley 

https://www.adidas.co.uk/parley

Rubies in the Rubble

https://rubiesintherubble.com/

NotPla on the Age of Plastic Podcast

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So excited to be join today by Aja Barber. She is a writer, personal stylist and style consultant based in South London. Her work focuses on sustainability, ethics, intersectional feminism racism and all the ways systems of power effect our buying habits.

Her debut book 'CONSUMED THE NEED FOR COLLECTIVE CHANGE: COLONIALISM, CLIMATE CHANGE & CONSUMERISM' is out now!

We discuss not only her book - obviously - but questions like is fast fashion killing fashion for future designers? How you can do slow fashion, how not to fall for the fast fashion styling tricks, respecting the so called unskilled jobs, why we don’t need all the things and what the fashion industry needs to do to get out of this hot mess and social media’s role in all of this.

Aja Barbers Book UK

https://uk.bookshop.org/books/consumed-the-need-for-collective-change-colonialism-climate-change-consumerism/9781914240041

Aja Barbers Book US

https://bookshop.org/books/consumed-the-need-for-collective-change-colonialism-climate-change-and-consumerism/9781538709849

Aja’s Socials

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Aja’s Patreon

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Lora’s episode

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