Love Zero Waste

We’re back! This is episode six, the first episode of season two of the Love Zero Waste podcast: “How plastics revolutionised our lives and are now destroying the planet”. Experts in this episode are Maggie Lee, Lead of Market Transformation at WWF Singapore and Anders Ankarlid, founder of A Good Company.

Plastics, plastic pollution, renewable plastic substitutes are hot topics at the moment. So what better topic to kick off the season with than plastics!? Plastics have revolutionised our lives in so many ways. It’s created significant improvements in hygiene, health care, transportation, packaging food and beverages, and so much more. However, there’s a backside to plastics. We’ve all seen the photos of dead or even desiccated animals with bellies full of plastics. Plastics are everywhere, and the consequences are devastating.

This episode’s experts Maggie Lee, Lead of Market Transformation at WWF Singapore and Anders Ankarlid, founder of A Good Company help us understand why some businesses are hesitant to join in the effort to switch to sustainable alternatives to plastics, cases when businesses have tried to do good - but actually made things worse, what some of the real and working solutions to remove plastics are, and that stone paper is actually a thing (!). Also, Evelina gets annoyed at the people who keep obsessing about the focus on straws. Let’s dive in!

Oh, and apart from kicking off season two, we have another cause for celebration.

Since we released the first episodes of Love Zero Waste in January, we’ve had 8000 unique listeners across the different podcast platforms: Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast etc. For us, that’s big! Thank you so much for listening, and for sending us encouraging messages.

Sources

“Why some countries are shipping back plastic waste” (BBC) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48444874

“UK faces build-up of plastic waste” (BBC) https://www.bbc.com/news/business-42455378

“Singapore university’s plastic straw ban sparks backlash from students: ‘I’ve been greatly inconvenienced’” (Eco-Business) https://www.eco-business.com/news/singapore-universitys-plastic-straw-ban-sparks-backlash-from-students-ive-been-greatly-inconvenienced

Definition polypropylene (PP packaging) (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypropylene

Definition bioplastics (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic

Definition injection mould (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injection_moulding

The PACT initiative (WWF) https://www.wwf.sg/pact.cfm

Definition stone paper (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_paper

Stone paper, traditional pulp paper, recycled paper (A Good Company) https://agood.com/blogs/stories/stone-paper-vs-traditional-pulp-paper

Changing e-commerce together (A Good Company) https://agood.com/blogs/about-us/changing-e-commerce-together

Let’s co-create

Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous and The Good Tribe. We’re always open to ideas and collaborations. Spread the love using #lovezerowaste.

Credits

Idea, production and editing: The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com and Circulous, www.circulous.biz

Hosts: Evelina Lundqvist and Malin Leth

Mixing: Umami produktion, www.umamiproduktion.se

Jingle: Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com

Initiators the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz

Season 2 of the podcast Love Zero Waste with Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist is coming soon!

That’s a wrap on season one of the Love Zero Waste podcast. Malin and Evelina meet up to discuss and share their impressions from the first season and summarize the three key factors that are most important for creating a zero waste society. However, they are not sure of…. the last one? What would you add?

Moreover, Evelina shares her feeling of a stomach ache because the waste problem is so big and Malin has been busy trying to grasp the enormous amount of trash that we humans generate every year. Finding the best equivalent for two billion tonnes of waste is not easy though. After calculating soccer fields and blue whales, she ends up with the classic example of ship containers. But does that make it easier to understand? Either way, a systematic shift is needed.

Throughout season one we met with scientists, activists, entrepreneurs, policymakers and other change agents to learn more about their insights in five episodes:

1) Waste Management for Dummies with Anna-Carin Gripwall of Avfallsverige and Jochen Pach of Holding Graz

2) The Game Changer (this is Zero Waste) with Elin Bergman of WWF and Paul Ekins of UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources

3) Leading change (at the intersection of waste management and zero waste) with Libby Peake of Green Alliance UK and Rustan Nilsson of Sysav

4) A-year-of-a-trash-in-a-jar and the packaging free grocery store with Carlyn Grebleski of Less waste world and Sarah Reindl of Das Gramm

5) From fast fashion to accountability with Alexandra Poetz of The Good Tribe, Anna Lidström of Another Studio and Birgitta Helmersson of Helgrose Studio.

In this episode, you’ll meet experts working to make the fashion industry zero waste: upcyling expert Alexandra Poetz, co-creator of the Love Zero Waste community and co-founder of The Good Tribe, designer and pattern maker Birgitta Helmersson, co-founder of Helgrose Studio and Store and fashion designer and stylist Anna Lidström of Another Studio. Our experts share their insights on the challenges of upcycling and remake, why zero waste pattern making is a game changer, and what some of the essential first steps are that a company in the fashion industry need to take.

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Sources

Re:textile, http://retextile.se/en/home-2/

Another Blog, http://anotherblog.se/

5 Truths the Fast Fashion Industry Doesn't Want You to Know, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/5-truths-the-fast-fashion_n_5690575

The new denim project, https://www.thenewdenimproject.com/

Helgrose Studio and Store, https://www.helgrose.com/

Birgitta Helmersson, http://www.birgittahelmersson.com/

Credits

Idea, production and editing: The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com and Circulous, www.circulous.biz

Hosts: Evelina Lundqvist and Malin Leth

Mixing: Umami, www.umamiproduktion.se

Jingle: Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com

Initiators the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz

Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous and The Good Tribe. We’re always open to ideas and collaborations. Visit us on www.thegoodtribe.com and www.circulous.biz and @LoveZeroWaste on Instagram for more information.

In this episode, you’ll meet two experts on how to live a zero waste lifestyle. Carlyn Grebleski of Less Waste World has been putting her trash in a jar for more than one and a half year and Sarah Reindl has opened two packaging free grocery store, Das Gramm and Das Dekagramm.

When you Google Zero Waste, or perhaps even more so, when you check it out on social media, the zero waste community manifests itself through lifestyle blogs, DIY guides, upcycling ideas, suggestions for avoiding food waste, food packaging and plastic bags and bottles. A large portion of the attention point in the direction of single individuals - of citizens. So this is what we’re taking a closer look at in this episode: The responsibility of the individual. And we’re doing so through the lens of two phenomena that have become almost synonymous with the zero waste movement - putting your entire years’ waste in a glass jar - and the plastic packaging free supermarket.

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We’d love to get your feedback on the podcast. Did you learn something new in this episode? Would you recommend others to listen to Love Zero Waste? What topics do you want us to tackle in the podcast? We’re all ears!

Please, rate us with five stars on iTunes/Apple Podcast, that will help more people find Love Zero Waste.

Spread the love using #lovezerowaste.

Sources

Less Waste World, https://www.lesswasteworld.com/

Das Gramm & Das Dekagramm, http://www.dasgramm.at

Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says (The Guardian), https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

The Carbon Majors Database, (CDP), https://b8f65cb373b1b7b15feb-c70d8ead6ced550b4d987d7c03fcdd1d.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/cms/reports/documents/000/002/327/original/Carbon-Majors-Report-2017.pdf?1499691240

Credits

Idea, production and editing: The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com and Circulous, www.circulous.biz

Hosts: Evelina Lundqvist and Malin Leth

Mixing: Umami, www.umamiproduktion.se

Jingle: Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com

Initiators the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz

Let’s co-create

Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous and The Good Tribe. We’re always open to ideas and collaborations. Visit us on www.thegoodtribe.com and www.circulous.biz and @LoveZeroWaste on Instagram for more information.

Two billion tonnes of municipal solid waste generated annually. The numbers keep rising, and the current narrow focus on recycling does next to nothing to change that. Enter: Waste reduction and minimisation and our new friend Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).

Listen to interviews with Libby Peake, senior policy adviser at Green Alliance, in London and Rustan Nilsson, environmental educator of SYSAV, a waste management facility in Malmö, Sweden. Your humble hosts: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist.

In this episode of Love Zero Waste you’ll learn more about creating and leading change at the policy, as well as citizen level. We’re diving deeper into the possibilities of drastically reducing waste through shifting the responsibility from consumers to designers and manufacturers, of cutting out all single-use items (not just those made out of plastics!) and through creating stricter laws and shifting how we think about waste and all the stuff we surround ourselves with.

Sources:

SYSAV, https://www.sysav.se

Green Alliance, https://www.green-alliance.org.uk

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in UK, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/gove-launches-landmark-blueprint-for-resources-and-waste

World Bank, https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/30317

Credits:

Idea, production and editing: The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com and Circulous, www.circulous.biz

Hosts: Evelina Lundqvist and Malin Leth

Mixing: Umami, www.umamiproduktion.se

Jingle: Michael Steinkellner, Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com

Initiators the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz

Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous and The Good Tribe. Visit us on www.thegoodtribe.com and www.circulous.biz and @LoveZeroWaste on Instagram. Spread the love using #lovezerowaste. We’re always open to ideas and collaborations.

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We’d love to get your feedback on the podcast. Did you learn something new in this episode? Would you recommend others to listen to Love Zero Waste? What topics do you want us to tackle in the podcast? We’re all ears!

Please, rate us with five stars on iTunes/Apple Podcast, that will help more people find Love Zero Waste.

Zero Waste is radical. It changes everything. In this episode, you'll learn more about how cities, policymakers, businesses and private citizens can help change the game and create a zero waste society - way sooner than you think. We take a look at Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), why so many choose to focus on the responsibilities of consumers when business generate so much more trash and the innate powers of civil society.

Listen to interviews with our experts: Paul Ekins, professor of Resources and Environmental policy, of UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources and Elin Bergman, Manager of Corporate Partnerships, of World Wide Fund for Nature and Wildlife (WWF).

Sources:

UCL, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sustainable

WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org

We Love Cities, http://welovecities.org

One Planet City Challenge, http://wwf.panda.org/our_work/projects/one_planet_cities/one_planet_city_challenge/

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in UK, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/gove-launches-landmark-blueprint-for-resources-and-waste

Civil society power: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2016/11/civil-society-vital-to-drive-momentum-on-paris-agreement-targets/

https://www.ippr.org/juncture/high-pressure-for-low-emissions-how-civil-society-created-the-paris-climate-agreement

Credits:

Idea, production and editing: The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com and Circulous, www.circulous.biz

Hosts: Evelina Lundqvist and Malin Leth

Mixing: Umami, www.umamiproduktion.se

Jingle: Michael Steinkellner, Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com

Please, rate us with five stars on iTunes, that will help more people find Love Zero Waste.

We’re always open to ideas and collaborations. Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous and The Good Tribe. Visit us on thegoodtribe.com and circulous.biz or @LoveZeroWaste on Instagram. Spread the love using #lovezerowaste.

To truly understand the concept of zero waste, it's essential that we dig into the current state of waste and waste management. In this, the first episode of Love Zero Waste, you'll learn more about why the amount of waste is increasing every year, what happens with your waste after you chuck it and we introduce you to the 12...ish Rs of zero waste. We’ll even tap into the unknowns of “invisible waste”. You’ll meet Anna-Carin Gripwall, head of communication at the Swedish Waste Management Association (Avfall Sverige) and we’re paying a visit to Jochen Pach, head of projects and material flow management at Holding Graz Waste Management.

Sources:

Avfall Sverige, https://www.avfallsverige.se

Holding Graz Waste Management, https://www.holding-graz.at/abfall.html

The European Week for Waste Reduction, http://www.ewwr.eu/en

Directive 2008/98/EC on waste (Waste Framework Directive) (our note: Waste hierarchy), http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/framework/

Djäkne Coffee bar, Co-working and Startup Studio, http://www.djakne.com

Credits:

Idea, production and editing: The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com and Circulous, www.circulous.biz

Hosts: Evelina Lundqvist and Malin Leth

Mixing: Umami, www.umamiproduktion.se

Jingle: Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com

Love Zero Waste logo artwork: Alexandra Poetz

Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz

Please, rate us with five stars on iTunes, that will help more people find Love Zero Waste.

We’re always open to ideas and collaborations. Visit us on www.thegoodtribe.com and www.circulous.biz or @LoveZeroWaste on Instagram. Spread the love using #lovezerowaste. Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous and The Good Tribe.

Hold your reindeers! In anticipation of the Love Zero Waste podcast launch, January 2019, here's a surprise Christmas special with your hosts Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist.

Evelina loves gifts, or at least the idea of gifts, and is a fan of Secret Santa, while Malin is allergic to Christmas. Listen to their tips on how to best survive the shopping frenzy season... Oops, we mean holiday season.

Love Zero Waste is a joint collaboration between The Good Tribe and Circulous.

Malin Leth's and Evelina Lundqvist's podcast Love Zero Waste is launching soon!

The first episodes will be recorded this fall. Season 1 of Love Zero Waste is Malin's and Evelina's critical contribution to raising the bar for zero waste, aiming for a global systems shift. Listen to the podcast trailer, and remember to like, comment and share, #lovezerowaste.

Love Zero Waste is a joint collaboration between The Good Tribe and Circulous.