In this episode, I'm joined by Lauren Singer, environmental activist, investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Trash is for Tossers. 

Lauren created and founded Trash is For Tossers, a resource for reducing your waste daily, Zero Waste inspiration, environmental education, and everyday actions that create a positive impact in 2014. Starting as a personal blog, Lauren documented her personal journey of reducing her waste to zero.

Lauren, who started living a Zero Waste 2 years earlier in 2012, first went viral for fitting a year’s worth of all of the waste she’d created in one 16oz mason jar. Nicknamed by her community as the “the girl with the trash jar”, Lauren went on to give a Ted Talk that brought the concept of Zero Waste to millions. 

In 2017, Lauren launched Package Free to create a united space for makers of sustainable products that helped to reduce waste, and to make the world less trashy one sustainable swap at a time. As the editorial arm of Package Free, Trash is for Tossers is a place for readers to be empowered with information and tools to reduce their waste and live in alignment with their environmental values.

Lauren is now the managing partner at Overview Capital, a venture fund investing in businesses mitigating methane and other super pollutants at the earliest stages. 

“I realized all hope is not lost. Yes the climate has been changing, however we haven’t been investing in the lever that we need to pull to stop warming now, and that lever is methane. We feel we’re just at the beginning of a conversation, of re-focus, of shift into what actually matters in our lifetime which is stopping this methane.”

Topics Covered:

• What inspired her passion for creating large scale environmental impact
• Starting her blog Trash is for Tossers
• Practical tools on where to start with environmental impact
• Defining what it means to live a Zero Waste life
• The motivation to create Package Free Shop
• Starting a fund to mitigate methane emissions through Overview Capital
• Ways to reduce methane on an individual and industrial level 

Guest Info:

Lauren’s Instagram

Lauren’s Ted Talk

Trash is for Tossers Website

Get in Touch:

Benshen.co Website

Benshen Membership

Benshen.co Instagram

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