First Mile's Climate Heroes

There’s a growing trend toward compostable packaging and this episode we meet Vegware to find out how it’s made and how to properly recycle end-of-life compostables.

Meet the world’s first interactive streaming platform who want to change the world through education and entertainment, by building a community dedicated to the future of our planet.

Weather forecasts have become much more accurate in the last decade due to advances in atmospheric physics powered by super-computing. These advances are leading to better climate predictions and in this episode we hear from Antje Weisheimer who is a climate physicist at Oxford University.

Sourcing better packaging with a lower carbon footprint is a key consideration for brands today and we meet a company on a mission to help businesses make better decisions using technology designed to balance cost, time, and impact.

In this episode we meet Dr Torill Bigg who is a Carbon Reduction Engineer, and we need engineers more than ever to re-engineer everything from machines to whole systems so we reduce our carbon impact.

Brompton aren’t just an iconic folding bike, they also form a key part in sustainable city transport and in this episode we learn about the impact of making a Brompton and their role in urban mobility.

In this episode we meet Frugalpac who are disrupting the packaging market with their latest product – a paper bottle – which has six times less embedded carbon and is easier to recycle.

Bokashi is the Japanese word for “well fermented organic matter” and it is said to be the most efficient way to replenish soil with organic matter. In this episode we will hear from Agriton, to learn how Bokashi is becoming a star of green waste management.

A recent UN report shows that household carbon footprints are dominated by the food we eat, but this could change with a quarter of us aiming to be vegan or veggie by 2025. In this episode we meet AllPlants who are helping us become imperfect plant-eaters.

In this episode we meet Zak Johnson, founder of Reborn who reward you for recycling plastics at your workplace, and with full traceability, recycle your plastic back into corporate and leisure clothing.