Age of Plastic

How do you launch a brand new eco brand? Sue Campbell decided to leave her job 2 years ago and set up a clean green beauty brand - Kind 2 - solid shampoo and conditioners bars that are plastic free - vegan and free from soap, sulphates, silicones and parabens. "Saving the planet doesn't have to mean bad hair." Sue doesn’t have a cosmetics background - so I was really interested in her career turn around - we talk about issues you may have had trying solid bars before, business carbon footprints, being a responsible customer, social enterprises and the ethics of sourcing materials and of course eco packaging!Head to www.kind2.me or follow them on instagram at @wearekind2ECO LIFE HACKhttps://recorkeduk.org/

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Author and founder of Transition Town Totnes ROB HOPKINS is my guest on this episode of the Age of Plastic. As well as discussing the brilliant idea that is Transition towns and the Transition Network (where communities take action to reimagine and rebuild together) we talk about the ideas behind his new book called FROM WHAT IS TO WHAT IF: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to create the future we want.https://www.chelseagreen.com/writer/rob-hopkins/https://www.robhopkins.net/https://transitionnetwork.org/Film Demainhttps://transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/tomorrow-demain-available-last-uk/?gclid=CjwKCAiAgqDxBRBTEiwA59eEN7CtSPHwjZll7cNMJPSkRnMubCNqW-nkv0I4QXiq6cQPzVG0hrC8axoCJhYQAvD_BwEDavid Holmgren on Permaculturehttps://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Permaculture.html?id=g1ofAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=yAldo Leopoldhttps://www.aldoleopold.org/about/aldo-leopold/sand-county-almanac/

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Today’s guest on the Age of Plastic Podcast, Buy Me Once founder and author Tara Button. Buy Me Once is a one stop online shop for the most durable sustainable items that in some cases will last you a lifetime. From umbrellas to tights to frying pans, Buy Me Once does what it says on the tin! Tara Button set the site up when she realised no one focuses on long lasting products anymore. She’s also written a book called A Life Less Throwaway and even had a sustainable wedding! We cover over consumption, consumerism, the part advertising and social media has to play and why people need to think more about electric kettles!Check the website for gifts that lasthttps://uk.buymeonce.com/Buy Me Once Zero Waste Starter Packshttps://uk.buymeonce.com/collections/zero-waste-shopA Life Less Throwawayhttps://uk.buymeonce.com/products/tara-button-a-life-less-throwawayTara Button on the Minimalists Podcasthttps://uk.buymeonce.com/blogs/articles-tips/tara-button-how-it-felt-to-meet-the-minimalistsEco Life Hack - POTTED CHRISTMAS TREES (sign up for next year!)https://www.christmastreesdelivered.co.uk/pot-grown-christmas-trees/http://www.loveachristmastree.co.uk/https://www.londonchristmastreerental.com/https://rentalclaus.com/https://www.diy.com/departments/4ft-nordmann-fir-pot-grown-christmas-tree/3663602556183_BQ.prd

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This episode of the Age of Plastic Podcast I talk food waste with Global Brand, Culture and Sustainability Officer Louise Zaine from Toast Ale. They make beer from waste bread!We get a history lesson in beer, talk crusts, B Corps, home brewing and what you should drink your beer from!I went along to help make a special brew you can get your hands on from 28th November at six selected London Brewdogs in time for Thanksgiving called Dubbel Dubbel Toil and Trouble! To celebrate Thanksgiving and rescue pumpkins. Proceeds will go to Hubbub to help fix the food system.Hubbubhttps://www.hubbub.org.uk/pumpkin-rescueFind out where to pick up Toast in a supermarket near you here;http://www.toastale.com/Get the recipe for homebrew here;https://www.toastale.com/homebrew-recipe/Paper Beer Bottleshttps://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/10/carlsberg-unveils-worlds-first-paper-beer-bottle/Charity Feedbackhttps://feedbackglobal.org/The Feedback Gleaning Networkhttps://feedbackglobal.org/campaigns/gleaning-network/Mooncuphttps://www.mooncup.co.uk/Tristram Stuart https://www.tristramstuart.co.uk/B Labs Charmian Lovehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/charmian-love-61565aa5/?originalSubdomain=ukEco Life Hack a plastic free charity helping calendar. The chocolate ones taste pants anyway.https://adventofchange.com/

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Todays guest has been doing things sustainably in the kitchen for 50 years - culminating in setting up one of a just handful of cooking schools looking at sustainability in the UK. Rosalind Rathouse is an experienced cook and founder of the Cookery School at Little Portland Street in London in 2003. In our chat I ask Rosalind what’s best, organic or local and how she teaches these labels to her students and find out how she came to set up and run an eco, and totally plastic free kitchen.Sign up to their mailing list now and you’ll get a 10% discount off your first class! https://www.cookeryschool.co.uk/Some more recommended reading from Rosalindhttp://www.tim-spector.co.uk/Eco cleaning productshttps://delphiseco.com/https://www.soilassociation.org/Get in touch;www.iamandreafox.co.ukwww.instagram.com/ageofplasticpodcasthttps://twitter.com/andrea_fox

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On this episode find out how Beth Noy set up Plastic Freedom an amazing site full of plastic free options in everything from Christmas wrap to Pet Toys. Find out how she quit her job to set it up, how she gets around supply issues when they include plastic packaging, her favourite items and how she plants a TREE for every order!Shop and sign up to the newsletter belowhttps://www.plasticfreedom.co.uk/And follow online https://www.instagram.com/plasticfreedom_/Beth's Herohttps://www.calmajor.com/More on ethical fashion with Aja Barber https://www.patreon.com/AjaBarberhttps://www.instagram.com/ajabarberhttps://twitter.com/etoilee8ECO LIFE HACK - sign up to the Everyday Plastic Surveyhttps://www.everydayplastic.orgAnd listen back to Dan's episode;https://soundcloud.com/ageofplasticpodcast/everyday-plasticNext episode's guests;https://www.cookeryschool.co.uk/And as always come say hi!https://www.instagram.com/ageofplasticpodcast/https://www.iamandreafox.co.uk/

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On this episode of the Age of Plastic I'm delighted to be chatting to co-founder of Too Good To Go - Jamie Crummie. Too Good To Go is the food waste app that’s more than just an app. Found out how on this episode as we discuss why their Magic Bags are a win win solution for everyone, the variables that make it hard for eateries to deal with waste and celebrate a momentous milestone. Listen out for some amazing culinary puns as well!Download Too Good To Gohttps://toogoodtogo.co.uk/en-gbReal Junk Food Projecthttps://trjfp.com/Wrap Food Waste Researchhttp://www.wrap.org.uk/food-drink Ben Elliot Food Tsarhttps://www.thegrocer.co.uk/big-interview/ben-elliot-on-food-waste-awareness-and-the-league-of-shame/593183.articleEco Life Hackkartent.comFatboy Slim/Greta Thunberghttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/09/right-here-right-now-fatboy-slim-samples-greta-thunberg-for-live-show

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What impact is your morning coffee having on the planet? Our your afternoon coffee for that matter. On today’s episode - hear from Sarah Lim and James Proctor Blane from Halo Coffee - the world’s first 100% compostable coffee capsule. Find out what the capsules are made of, why zero waste maybe is a difficult thing for us to aim for, Halo’s big plans and why they have some soil in a glass box in their office!https://halo.coffee/Perfect world foundationhttps://www.theperfectworld.com/en/https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/beyond-the-bean/stories/coffee-lifecycle/the-impact-of-a-daily-cup-of-coffee/https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2018/12/16/oui-les-dosettes-de-cafe-en-aluminium-sont-cheres-polluantes-et-peu-recyclees_5398374_4355770.htmlGet in touch with your Eco Life Hacks, suggestions and comments! https://www.instagram.com/ageofplasticpodcast/https://twitter.com/andrea_foxhttps://www.iamandreafox.co.uk/

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How do you pick your veg? Shiniest apples? Biggest potatoes? Absolutely no brown spots on your bananas? Terrifyingly even before it leaves the farm for our shops there’s a massive amount of food that is wasted. A third in fact! Worth 17 billion pounds! Why is this? Well find out from today’s guest…Odd Box is a London's first and only fruit and veg box that fights food waste by rescuing fresh and delicious surplus & wonky produce straight from the farm.Co-founder of ODD BOX Emilie Vanpoperinghe decided wonky veg is where it’s at! Hear all about Odd Box’s food waste revolution, and get 50% off your first Odd Box delivery with the code AGEOFPLASTIC www.oddbox.co.ukHow bad are bananas? Bookhttps://profilebooks.com/how-bad-are-bananas.htmlHear from Odd Box suppliershttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKwQfxpiFjC44olpDslpTIQHugh Fearnley-Whittingstallhttps://www.rivercottage.net/war-on-wasteECO LIFE HACKhttps://co2.myclimate.org/

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You've got your recycling boxes at home, maybe composter or food waste bin… but what about your workplace? And what about all those fluorescent light bulbs, coffee granules, printer jets, cooking oil and hangers that you might be using where you work?First Mile are a recycling service that since 2004 has been helping 27,000 businesses like Caffe Nero, Innocent Drinks and the National Gallery to leave a greener footprint on the planet by recycling their waste to the max. Their ethos is to make it easy for businesses to do the right thing.Hear from Chief Commercial Officer Joe Allen about innovations First Mile are working plus we talk driverless cars and coffee perfume.First Mile https://thefirstmile.co.ukSacktory - The Labhttps://thefirstmile.co.uk/sacktoryBio Beanhttps://www.bio-bean.com/coffee-logs/Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinardhttps://www.patagonia.com/company-history.htmlEarthling Edhttps://earthlinged.org/Oxfamhttps://www.oxfamapps.org.uk/secondhandseptember/

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