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Over the last couple years, I’ve been on a slow but steady journey of becoming somebody who is less wasteful. I may not get to the point of being able to fit all my trash from the month into a mason jar, but I have been making slow, intentional choices to reduce and use less waste. Along this journey, there have been certain items that have made me wonder, “Could there be a zero waste option for this?” Especially for bathroom products like Q tips and tissues. There have not been many options on the market…until today! My guest this week is Isabel Aagaard, founder of Last Object, a Danish design trio who have chosen to tackle some of the least sexy objects out there like cotton swabs and disposable tissues. They are addressing the problem of single-use items and looking past the highly visible culprits like plastic bottles and straws. Last Swab is the reusable alternative to cotton swabs, which replace the need for the 1.5 billion single-use Q tips produced daily, only to be thrown out after one use. Last Tissue saves 2 liters of water per tissue and has become wildly popular on Kickstarter. Prior to founding Last Object, Isabel designed the first reusable chemotherapy bag to reduce waste in the medical industry, and it is now being used all over Denmark. I was fascinated with this conversation with Isabel and know you’re going to love learning about these unique designs that’s changing the world!
4:22 - The Isabel 101
8:29 – Last Object
16:40 - Speaking of Questions, “How Does it Work?”
21:17 – Collaborative Design for the Future
23:07 – Get Your Hands On Last Swab or Last Tissue!
25:00 – Reducing Waste in the Medical Industry
27:11 – Getting to Know Our Guest
Memorable Quotes:
13:27 - “We wanted to tell you what the product is doing by just design. That’s why we want to refer to how it looks or how the single-use item looks.”
16:00 - “It actually created a conversation, and that’s exactly what you want when you’re designing something. You want people to question it.”
20:52- “We wanted to take the convenient, modern side of the tissue pack and then really incorporate making it into something that could actually be good for the environment.”
22:12 - “I can tell you that we’re going to stay in the bathroom area because that’s a really fun area to be in. We’re gonna make some more ‘ew’ products.”
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Over the last couple years, I’ve been on a slow but steady journey of becoming somebody who is less wasteful. I may not get to the point of being able to fit all my trash from the month into a mason jar, but I have been making slow, intentional choices to reduce and use less waste. Along this journey, there have been certain items that have made me wonder, “Could there be a zero waste option for this?” Especially for bathroom products like Q tips and tissues. There have not been many options on the market…until today! My guest this week is Isabel Aagaard, founder of Last Object, a Danish design trio who have chosen to tackle some of the least sexy objects out there like cotton swabs and disposable tissues. They are addressing the problem of single-use items and looking past the highly visible culprits like plastic bottles and straws. Last Swab is the reusable alternative to cotton swabs, which replace the need for the 1.5 billion single-use Q tips produced daily, only to be thrown out after one use. Last Tissue saves 2 liters of water per tissue and has become wildly popular on Kickstarter. Prior to founding Last Object, Isabel designed the first reusable chemotherapy bag to reduce waste in the medical industry, and it is now being used all over Denmark. I was fascinated with this conversation with Isabel and know you’re going to love learning about these unique designs that’s changing the world!
4:22 - The Isabel 101
8:29 – Last Object
16:40 - Speaking of Questions, “How Does it Work?”
21:17 – Collaborative Design for the Future
23:07 – Get Your Hands On Last Swab or Last Tissue!
25:00 – Reducing Waste in the Medical Industry
27:11 – Getting to Know Our Guest
Memorable Quotes:
13:27 - “We wanted to tell you what the product is doing by just design. That’s why we want to refer to how it looks or how the single-use item looks.”
16:00 - “It actually created a conversation, and that’s exactly what you want when you’re designing something. You want people to question it.”
20:52- “We wanted to take the convenient, modern side of the tissue pack and then really incorporate making it into something that could actually be good for the environment.”
22:12 - “I can tell you that we’re going to stay in the bathroom area because that’s a really fun area to be in. We’re gonna make some more ‘ew’ products.”
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