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In this episode, we're doing something new. One of our listeners, Cameron Cooper of Coopers Refillery, an entrepreneur in the zero waste space, has submitted a very interesting business development question. We set out to answer the question; how to adequately price a supermarket refill station. Due to the limited competition, as of now, this is a bit tricky. Together with the experts on zero waste, circular economy and business development: Fanny Näslund of Vågen Zero Waste Stores, Verena Kassar of Das Gramm Zero Waste Stores and Maira Babri of Örebro University, Evelina and Malin share some key perspectives and actions to help out. Would you like to submit a zero waste question to the show - business or otherwise? Shoot us a DM over at Love Zero Waste on Instagram, or email us at hello@lovezerowaste.biz. You can submit your question in writing - or even better through a voice recording. With a bit of luck, we might answer your burning question on the show. Special thanks to Cameron Cooper for being patient with us, as we were experimenting to find the right show format, to our experts Fanny Näslund, Verena Kassar and Maira Babri and to Magdalena Dirr for lending us your voice. Call to action Download the Zero Waste Business Model Canvas for free! Give it a try, and tell us how you're doing! https://www.lovezerowaste.biz/businessmodelcanvas Sources, links and social media handles Cooper's Refillery, https://coopersrefillery.com, https://www.instagram.com/coopersrefillery Vågen Zero Waste stores, https://www.vagenbutik.se, https://www.instagram.com/vagenosd Das Gramm, https://www.dasgramm.at, https://www.instagram.com/dasgramm Örebro University, School of Business, https://www.oru.se/English/Schools/Orebro-University-School-of-Business Maira Babri, https://se.linkedin.com/in/maira-babri-a1577514, https://www.oru.se/personal/maira_babri Tiny Family Podcast, https://www.instagram.com/tiny_family_collective Credits Hosts and creators: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist Jingle by Michael Steinkellner of Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, www.circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com. Support Love Zero Waste Support us by telling your friends to listen to the show, and by rating us with five stars in the app where you're listening. Your help means the world to us!

Mecca McDonald and Mia Dunn, scientists and creatives, and co-founders of MoNa Gems have developed a type of bioplastic, used to create trendy shapes looking like synthetic plastic, but which is 100% biodegradable. For real, no industrial compost need! This innovation might help reduce the use of conventional plastics in the fashion industry. Learn more about the innovation process, and Mecca and Mia's learnings developing MoNa Gems: the importance of failure, not getting discouraged by haters and pursuing your passions. This interview is part of our Instagram Live series: “Three things I've learned”. In this series, we talk to experts in the zero waste space about their most important learnings. Sources: https://www.gofundme.com/f/mona-scaling-production-and-expansion-fund https://www.instagram.com/mona.gems Credits Hosts and creators: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist Jingle by Michael Steinkellner of Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz Visit our website, www.lovezerowaste.biz and Love Zero Waste on Instagram. Let's connect! Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, www.circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com. Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous and The Good Tribe.

Aaron Feigelman is a former UCLA student and Tesla employee who recently founded his own materials science company developing functional materials from food waste - starting with coffee waste. His company is called The Kawa Project. Listen to the interview and learn more about “Innovating new coffee materials”: the average American contributes to 35 pounds (16 kg) of coffee waste per year, big corporations are looking to play a role in fixing the waste issue and the hardest parts about figuring out new uses for food waste - economics and branding. This recorded Instagram live is part of a series of interviews we're doing, called: "Three things I've learned", where we talk to experts in the zero waste space about their most important learnings. Sources: https://www.thekawaproject.com http://instagram.com/thekawaproject https://www.cosmeticsandtoiletries.com/formulating/category/natural/The-Kawa-Project-Upcycles-Coffee-for-Cosmetics-Food-Products-573879741.html https://www.regrained.com https://www.renewalmill.com Support Love Zero Waste! Please, support our work by sharing it with the world! Subscribe to the show! Tell your friends and colleagues to listen! To help us create more episodes of the podcast, consider making a one-time donation, www.PayPal.me/lovezerowaste or a monthly donation, www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste. Your support means everything to us! Credits Hosts and creators: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist Jingle by Michael Steinkellner of Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, www.circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com.

Ivana Steiner is a designer specialised in luxury hospitality, and she's recently developed a great interest in zero waste. A few weeks ago, she presented her first zero waste product: a beautiful, stainless steel kitchen, including compost and a herbal garden. The kitchen has already been featured by several international media outlets, including Treehugger, DesignBoom and DWELL. In our conversation with Ivana, learn more about transforming customer research into beautiful and functional design, working with an expert focus group, and approaching minimalism, climate change, and slowing down - all through a zero waste kitchen. This Instagram Live is the first interview in a series we call "Three things I've learned", where we talk to experts in the zero waste space about their most important learnings. Ivana reached out to us during the spring as she was looking for feedback on the kitchen concept. We helped her put together a small focus group with experts on zero waste, grocery shopping, cooking and minimalism. A big shoutout to Andrea Lunzer, Eva-Bettina Gruber and Sarah Schalk for contributing to this process. All of which have also been guests on the Love Zero Waste podcast! Sources: https://www.ivanasteiner.com https://www.instagram.com/ivanasteiner_design https://www.designboom.com/design/zero-waste-kitchen-protest-live-sustainably-ivana-steiner-07-05-2021/ https://www.treehugger.com/ivana-steiner-zero-waste-kitchen-5191516 Support Love Zero Waste! Please, support our work by sharing it with the world! Subscribe to the show! Tell your friends and colleagues to listen! To help us create more episodes of the podcast, consider making a one-time donation, www.PayPal.me/lovezerowaste or a monthly donation, www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste. Your support means everything to us! Credits Hosts and creators: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist Jingle by Michael Steinkellner of Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, www.circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com.

We're back for season 4! The circularity gap is rapidly growing. What can companies do to mitigate the fact that ⅔ of all material put into the global economy every year ends up as waste? Go zero waste of course! This is the first episode in a series of three where we're talking about the zero waste business space. This is an introduction to zero waste business development. If you're a new listener to Love Zero Waste: We are obsessed with zero waste solutions! Love Zero Waste is the podcast where we explore the latest zero waste and circular economy developments. We examine business models, innovations and trends. We talk to leading activists, entrepreneurs, educators, designers, policymakers and scientists, working on solutions across the planet, to create large-scale change for a truly circular, zero waste future. Sources https://www.circle-economy.com/resources/the-circularity-gap-report-our-world-is-only-9-circular https://www.circle-economy.com/resources/circularity-gap-report-2020 https://www.circle-economy.com/resources/circularity-gap-report-2021 https://cleantheworld.org https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/frugal-innovation-meets-hygiene-with-adams-bamigbose-shawn-seipler Call to action If you want more of us - we've been guests on two podcasts. Go listen, and tell us what you think! The Zero Waste Countdown Show with Laura Nash, episode 133: Love Zero Waste https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/133-love-zero-waste/id1298333854?i=1000524538231&l=pl And Hey Impact's podcast How to make a difference, with Elisabeth Ignasiak and Alicia Lee. You find us in episode 21: How to be Zero Waste https://hey-impact.com/podcast/21-how-to-be-zero-waste-mini Support Love Zero Waste! Please, support our work by sharing it with the world! Subscribe to the show! Tell your friends and colleagues to listen! To help us create more episodes of the podcast, consider making a one-time donation, www.PayPal.me/lovezerowaste or a monthly donation, www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste. Your support means everything to us! Credits Hosts and creators: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist Jingle by Michael Steinkellner of Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, www.circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com.

We’ve now created 30+ episodes of this podcast! Time for hosts Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist to reflect and summarise their key takeaways and insights from season 3 and reveal a few of their goals for season 4, which is starting soon. Regarding the call for people working on participatory and inclusive zero waste and circularity processes. (Especially public-private partnerships!) Do get in touch with us! We want to know what you’re working on! Write to us! ======== CALL TO ACTION! - Check out our new website and subscribe to the Love Zero Waste newsletter! www.lovezerowaste.biz - Join the zero waste challenge in the Deedster app and reduce your environmental footprint. Learn a ton about zero waste while challenging your family, friends or colleagues to do the same. https://open.deedster.com/journey/anktNTg3MTE0NDYxMzcwNzc3Ng ======== THANK YOU! A very warm thank you to Michael Steinkellner, Merlinn Sound for creating a revamped version of our jingle. We love your work! ======== SOURCES A selection of season 3 episodes: Cities and regions approaching zero waste (with Andrew Marr & Joâo Bernardo Casali) https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/cities-and-regions-approaching-zero-waste-with-andrew-marr-and-joao-bernardo-casali Standup paddle board scientists fighting micro plastics (with Christian Shaw) https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/standup-paddle-board-scientists-fighting-micro-plastics-with-christian-shaw Zero waste trends in Europe (12 experts interviewed) https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/zero-waste-trends-in-europe Live: Tidy spaces, tiny habits and minimalism - a new zero waste life ahead (with Eva Gruber) https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/live-tidy-spaces-tiny-habits-and-minimalism-a-new-zero-waste-life-ahead-with-eva-gruber Consumer confusion adding to the waste pile (with Naomi Scott-Mearns & Seema Shandil) https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/consumer-confusion-adding-to-the-waste-pile Live: Designing microplastics water filters inspired by manta rays (with Sjors van der Meer) https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/live-designing-micro-plastics-water-filters-inspired-by-manta-rayssjors-van-der-meer Frugal innovation meets hygiene (with Adams Bamigbose & Shawn Seipler) https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/frugal-innovation-meets-hygiene-with-adams-bamigbose-shawn-seipler Biomimicry - solutions sparked by nature (with Rebecca Carlson) https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/biomimicry-solutions-sparked-by-nature-with-rebecca-carlson From fire to loops (with Claire Arkin & Rossano Ercolini) https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/from-fire-to-loops-with-claire-arkin-rossano-ercolini Live: Let's end food waste! Vol 2 (with Helén Williams & Estefania Coral Andrade) https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/live-lets-end-food-waste-vol-2-with-helen-williams-estefania-coral-andrade The global e-waste challenge (with Ify Otuya & Chloé Mikolajczak) https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/the-global-e-waste-challenge-with-ify-otuya-chloe-mikolajczak Live: How to help build back a better future (with Amanda Janoo) https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/live-how-to-help-build-back-a-better-future-with-amanda-janoo Live: How to start your local movement (with Melati Wijsen) https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/love-zero-waste-live-how-to-start-your-local-movement ======== SUPPORT LOVE ZERO WASTE! Please, support our work by sharing it with the world! Subscribe to the show, and tell your friends to listen. To help us create more podcast episodes, consider donating through www.PayPal.me/lovezerowaste or www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste. Thank you! ======== CREDITS Hosts and creators: Malin Leth & Evelina Lundqvist Jingle: Michael Steinkellner, www.merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist & Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, www.circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com.

More and more cities and regions across the planet choose to go for zero waste. In this episode, you'll learn more about the challenges and solutions of two of those places: Vancouver, Canada and the Noronha, Brazil. Guests are Andrew Marr of Metro Vancouver and Joâo Bernardo Casali (@jbcasali) of Ionica (@ionicalab). Andrew Marr, Metro Vancouver gives us a better picture of the types of challenges that generally pop-up on a city's zero waste journey. Joâo Bernardo Casali of the B-corp Ionica shares the journey of Noronha, the first Brazilian territory to ban all single-use plastic items - at once. Learn more about critical actions as cities and regions turn to zero waste: the importance of public-private partnerships (and a textbook example of a successful one!); of gathering key stakeholders under one vision; moving beyond the traditional EPR (extended producer responsibility) and pushing for more far-reaching bans and legislations; as well as the challenges of reaching beyond the low-hanging fruits of waste-diversion and much more. ======== CALL TO ACTION! - Read this publication "The Zero Waste Masterplan - A Guide to Building Just and Resilient Zero Waste Cities" by GAIA US and Canada. https://www.paperturn-view.com/us/gaia/gaia-zero-waste-masterplan?pid=MTE115576 - Listen to our Zero Waste Trends in Europe podcast episode. Especially with the interview with Juan Marc Simon. He talks about reuse being an essential part of the zero waste vision. https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/zero-waste-trends-in-europe ======== THANK YOU! Thank you to Raiffeisen Nachhaltigkeits-Initiative / Raiffeisen Sustainability Initiative for supporting the making of this episode! Your support means a lot to us! Thank you! Read more about their work here, https://www.raiffeisen.at/nachhaltigkeit/de/start.html. ======== SOURCES Metro Vancouver food loss and waste strategy for Canada, http://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/issue-43/611/NZWC%20releases%20food%20loss%20and%20waste%20strategy Metro Vancouver waste management, http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/solid-waste/recycling-programs/food-scraps-recycling/residents/Pages/default.aspx Regulatory approaches for priority plastic wastes, http://www.nzwc.ca/Documents/RegulatoryApproachesforPriorityPlasticWastes.pdf Ionica's website, https://www.ionica.cc Noronha Plastico Zero’s website, http://www.noronhaplasticozero.com.br/ "25 cities committed to going zero waste", The Guardian https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/travel/lists/zero-waste-eliminate-sustainable-travel-destination-plastic "From no recycling to zero waste: how Ljubljana rethought its rubbish" Ljubljana, Slovenia (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/23/zero-recycling-to-zero-waste-how-ljubljana-rethought-its-rubbish "'No-waste' Japanese village is a peek into carbon-neutral future" Kamikatsu, Japan (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/20/no-waste-japanese-village-is-a-peek-into-carbon-neutral-future Capannori, Italy (Zero Waste Europe) https://zerowasteeurope.eu/portfolio/zero-waste-italy/ "How zero waste Bandung help push for national waste targets in Indonesia", UPBB, http://ypbbblog.blogspot.com/2020/09/zero-waste-cities-dorong-target.html?m=1 ======== SUPPORT LOVE ZERO WASTE! Please, support our work by sharing it with the world! Subscribe to the show, and tell your friends to listen. To help us create more podcast episodes, consider donating through www.PayPal.me/lovezerowaste or www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste. Thank you! ======== CREDITS Hosts and creators: Malin Leth & Evelina Lundqvist Jingle: Michael Steinkellner, www.merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist & Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, www.circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com.

We've been talking a lot about ocean plastic pollution and microplastics on show. This is such a fundamentally important topic to understand on the path towards a zero waste future! We'll continue to investigate this topic in this episode, but from a slightly different perspective. In this episode, we're talking to Christian Shaw, co-founder and executive director of the US-based NGO, Plastic Tides. This episode is all about activism, awareness building and science, all in the shape and form of expeditions, with the goal of mapping out the prevalence of microplastics across the planet. Moreover, this episode is about pivoting, changing your ideas and plans when the situation demands it. Time to dive in! Join Plastic Tides’ virtual global relay expedition, https://www.plastictides.org/relay! More information about the Global Youth Mentorship Program, https://www.plastictides.org/youth Sources Plastic tides website, social media handles and movie clips Plastic tides, http://plastictides.org Plastic tides on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/PlasticTides Plastic tides on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/PlasticTides/ Plastic Tides Bermuda Episode 1, https://youtu.be/Yf232UZw4x8 Plastic Tides Bermuda Episode 2, https://youtu.be/vCQOGDxT_Qc Ocean facts Bermuda, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda Sargassum seaweeds, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargassum Ocean gyres, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_gyre Mentioned people, organisations and initiatives Five Gyres, https://www.5gyres.org National Geographic Grant Program, https://www.nationalgeographic.org/funding-opportunities/grants/ Plastic Ocean Project, https://www.plasticoceanproject.org Adventure Scientists, http://adventurescientists.org Adventure Scientists’ Global Microplastics Project, https://www.adventurescientists.org/microplastics.html Dr. Sherri Mason leading first-ever Great Lakes plastic pollution survey (Fredonia), https://www.fredonia.edu/news/dr-sherri-mason-leading-first-ever-great-lakes-plastic-pollution-survey Planet or plastic (National Geographic), https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/planetorplastic/ Support Love Zero Waste! Please, support our work by sharing it with the world! Subscribe to the show, and tell your friends to listen to Love Zero Waste. To help us create more episodes of the podcast, consider making a one-time donation, www.PayPal.me/lovezerowaste or a monthly donation, www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste. Your support means everything to us! Credits Hosts and creators: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist Jingle by Michael Steinkellner of Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, www.circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com.

This is a special episode of Love Zero Waste. In collaboration with Zero Waste Europe, the number-one expert organisation on all matters zero waste in Europe, throughout October, we’ve been scanning the continent’s zero waste trends focusing on four areas: (1) reuse, (2) zero waste shopping, (3) quitting single-use plastics and (4) the impact of plastics on our health. This episode is the summary, the ultimate highlight compilation of all the interviewed we conducted. You’ll meet 12 experts and frontrunners, working in some of the most exciting business, government and civil society organisations across Europe, to tackle specific aspects of zero waste. Our guests: - Alice Bah Kuhnke, politician in the European Parliament https://www.instagram.com/alicebahkuhnke - Alec Mills and Celia Pool, co-founders of DAME https://wearedame.co - Bettina Steinbrugger, CEO and co-founder of Erdbeerwoche https://erdbeerwoche.com - Chloé Mikolajczak, sustainable development campaigner and host of the Burning case podcast https://www.instagram.com/theburningcasepodcast https://www.instagram.com/thegreenmonki - Joan Marc Simon, director of Zero Waste Europe https://zerowasteeurope.eu - Justine Maillot, Consumption & Production Campaigner at Zero Waste Europe & Policy Coordinator at the Rethink Plastic alliance of Zero Waste Europe https://zerowasteeurope.eu https://rethinkplasticalliance.eu - Katja Sres, head of public relations at Ecologists without borders Slovenia https://ebm.si - Larissa Copello, consumption and production campaigner of Zero Waste Europe https://zerowasteeurope.eu - Linda Vasilescu, co-founder of R-CREATE http://www.r-create.ro - Sofia Sydorenko, coordinator of Zero Waste Alliance Ukraine https://www.instagram.com/zwaukraine/ https://zerowastelviv.org.ua/doslidzhennia-the-lancet/ - Susana Fonseca, board member of ZERO Portugal https://zero.ong/ Call to action! We have two specific calls to action with this episode: - Sign The Bloody Manifesto, by November 26, 2020: http://bit.ly/signmanifesto - Learning by self-reflection Throughout listening to the show we urge you to reflect on the following questions: What am I learning? How can I contribute to the transition towards a zero waste society? Take notes on a piece of paper, on your phone, by scribbling in the sand! Listen, contemplate and act! Sources https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en https://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular-economy/pdf/new_circular_economy_action_plan.pdf https://www.wen.org.uk/environmenstrualweek https://www.wen.org.uk/our-work/environmenstrual https://www.forbes.com/sites/serenaoppenheim/2019/01/31/hello-plastic-free-periods-the-worlds-first-reusable-tampon-applicator https://reports.mintel.com/display/858711/ https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xMjUwNzU5LnJzcw/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC01NjUzNDUw?hl=en-AT&ved=2ahUKEwiXguie9PPsAhWK3eAKHcZTA7YQjrkEegQIDBAI&ep=6 https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/wbhn73b/the-green-wave https://www.sis.se/en/news/swedish-stakeholders-request-global-iso-standards-for-menstrual-products Sources Zero Waste Europe Reusable & toxic-free menstrual products, 2018, ZWE, https://zerowasteeurope.eu/downloads/64575/ https://friendsoftheearth.uk/plastics/tyres-and-microplastics-time-reinvent-wheel https://zerowasteeurope.eu/products/ https://zerowasteeurope.eu/library/?fwp_library_programmes=consumption-production https://zerowasteeurope.eu/library/dare-to-imagine-a-better-future https://zerowasteeurope.eu/library/towards-safe-food-contact-materials-in-a-toxic-free-circular-economy https://zerowasteeurope.eu/library/reusable-packaging-and-covid-19 https://zerowasteeurope.eu/library/packaging-free-shops-in-europe-an-initial-report https://zerowasteeurope.eu/library/how-to-make-packaging-free-shops-go-mainstream

Guest in this Instagram Live recording of Love Zero Waste is Eva Gruber, Habit Coach for Makers and Multi Potentials. Moreover, Eva is a certified Kon Mari and Tiny Habits consultant. Learn more about Eva’s journey towards a zero waste lifestyle, as well as her work coaching clients to shift their habits away from overconsumption and clutter towards healthy habits and tidy and energising spaces. This episode is packed with tips on how to get started with a zero waste lifestyle. Time to change your habits and behaviours to incorporate more zero waste, minimalism and joy (!) into your life. Yeah…. We did talk a bit about system change as well. Sources https://evagruber.org https://www.tinyhabits.com https://konmari.com/konmari-consultant-program/ Support Love Zero Waste! Please support our work by sharing it with the world! Subscribe to the show, and tell your friends to begin listening to our podcast. To help us create more and even richer content, consider making a one-time donation, PayPal.me/lovezerowaste or a monthly donation, patreon.com/lovezerowaste. Your support means everything to us! Credits Hosts and creators: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist Jingle by Michael Steinkellner of Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, www.circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com.

Claims, labels, logos and symbols… Check your pantry, in the grocery store, the stuff you buy online. You might go as far as saying that all across the board, products are covered with symbols claiming eco-friendliness, solar power usage, recyclability, plastic content reduced, bioplastics, circularity, saving soil, saving water, no by-catch, compostable, biodegradable… something with green arrows… But what do they all mean, and despite the intentions, how do they end up contributing to the waste pile, rather than reducing it? As consumers we’re navigating narrow paths, trying to make mindful purchases. Surrounded by all these claims, labels, logos and symbols it’s easy to get confused or even angry. We’re all just trying to do the right thing. Right!? Guests are Naomi Scott-Mearns, Consumers International and Seema Shandil, Consumer Council of Fiji. In this episode, you’ll learn how consumer confusion adds to the waste pile, where the responsibility to clear out this mess lies, what some of the great resources are for companies that genuinely want to help their customers, what we can learn from the development of nutrition labelling, and how the island nation Fiji deals with waste collection and the consequences of trash in the ocean. Spoiler-alert! This time, we will leave you in despair... Sources The definition of ecolabels (Wikipedia), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecolabel Ecolabel Index, http://www.ecolabelindex.com Consumer Council Fiji, http://www.consumersfiji.org Consumers International, https://www.consumersinternational.org Report “Can I recycle this” (Consumers International), https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/resource/can-i-recycle-global-mapping-and-assessment-standards-labels-and-claims-plastic-packaging Launch webinar of “Can I Recycle This?” (Consumers International), https://www.youtube.com/user/SCPClearinghouse/videos Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information (UN Environment and ITC), https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/resource/guidelines-providing-product-sustainability-information The One Planet Network, https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org Eco-labelling (UNEP), https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/resource-efficiency/what-we-do/responsible-industry/eco-labelling Support our work through Patreon and Paypal You can make a one-time donation through Paypal or even a monthly donation, starting at 5 USD, through Patreon. Your contribution will help us create more episodes of Love Zero Waste, with even richer content. However small or big your contribution is, your support means the world to us! https://www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste https://www.paypal.me/lovezerowaste Credits Hosts and creators: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist Jingle by Michael Steinkellner of Merlinn Sound, http://merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, http://circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, http://thegoodtribe.com.

The microplastic pollution in our oceans is a growing problem since the participles are invisible to the naked eye, and even more so, because it’s everywhere, and there’s no way of knowing how their occurrence may threaten life on earth in the long run. Our guest Sjors van der Meer, designer and co-founder of the Floating Coconet started out with an ambition of using biomimicry design elements to rid rivers of plastics before it arrives in the ocean, and has now pivoted towards gathering microplastic fibres at one of the pollution sources - our washing machines. Learn how the Floating Coconet, inspired by how manta rays and basking sharks filter food from the water, work to change how garments are washed and collect microplastics fibres at the source. Floating Coconet is a previous Biomimicry Global Design Challenge finalist, and launchpad start-up, based in the Netherlands. Sources Trash free seas: plastics in the ocean, Ocean Conservancy, https://oceanconservancy.org/trash-free-seas/plastics-in-the-ocean/ Floating Coconet (Biomimicry Institute) https://innovation.biomimicry.org/team/floating-coconet/ Floating Coconet (Kickstarter) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/367174604/floating-coconet-cleaning-plastic-rivers Floating Coconet (Instagram) https://www.instagram.com/floatingcoconet/ Support our work through Patreon You can make a one-time or even a monthly donation, starting at 5 USD. Your contribution will help us create more episodes of Love Zero Waste, with even richer content. Your support means the world to us! https://www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste Let us know what you think! 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? Let us know! Credits Hosts and creators: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist Jingle by Michael Steinkellner of Merlinn Sound, http://merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, http://circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, http://thegoodtribe.com.

As COVID-19 and other viruses taunt communities across the globe, entrepreneurs rise to create solutions to protect people but also the planet. A shocking forty per cent of the world’s population does not have access to basic handwashing possibilities, something that adds to the spread of diseases. We’ve spoken to two entrepreneurs who are combining zero waste and frugal innovation, also known as inclusive innovation or grassroots innovation, creating accessible and affordable hygiene solutions. Guests in this episode of Love Zero Waste are Adams Bamigbose, CEO and creative director of Above Ground Level Artistry and Shawn Seipler, CEO of Clean the World Foundation. Learn how Adams’s and Shawn’s initiatives are creating life-saving impact at the intersection of frugal innovation, zero waste and hygiene. Sources Above Ground Level Artistry on Twitter, https://twitter.com/AGL_artistry_ and Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/agl_artistry_. The washbasin now comes with a sensor! https://twitter.com/AGL_artistry_/status/1264757104461709313?s=20 https://twitter.com/AGL_artistry_/status/1262530306134900737?s=20 “Nigerian artisan drums up business with upcycled washing stations” (Reuters), https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idOVC7E2HRN “Global Business”, (China Global Television Network, CGTN), https://twitter.com/AGL_artistry_/status/1263473829046882312?s=20 Clean the World Foundation’s website, https://cleantheworld.org Clean the World Foundation on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/CleantheWorld “Approximately three out of five people have basic handwashing facilities” (UNICEF), https://data.unicef.org/topic/water-and-sanitation/hygiene/ “Everything you need to know about washing your hands to protect against coronavirus (COVID-19)” (UNICEF), https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/everything-you-need-know-about-washing-your-hands-protect-against-coronavirus-covid-19 “Globally, 4 out of 5 people do not wash hands after using the bathroom” (Wateraid), https://www.wateraid.org/us/media/global-handwashing-day-hygiene-in-schools-healthy-children Definition Frugal Innovation (Wikipedia), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frugal_innovation Support our work through Patreon You can make a one-time or even a monthly donation, starting at 5 USD. Your contribution will help us create more episodes of Love Zero Waste, with even richer content. Your support means the world to us! https://www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste Credits Hosts and creators: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist Jingle by Michael Steinkellner of Merlinn Sound, http://merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, http://circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, http://thegoodtribe.com

What does velcro and the Namib desert beetle have in common? They’re both champions in the field of biomimicry. And what does biomimicry have to do with zero waste? Everything! On the show we’re often talking about designing out waste - but with biomimicry, we’re taking things even further. In nature, waste doesn’t exist, only closed loops, and that’s what designers, engineers and others are trying to mimic and put to good use. Listen to our guest Rebecca Carlson of the Biomimicry Institute, give a crash course on innovation and design inspired by nature, taxonomy, and how we could rethink CO2. Perhaps the latter it’s no longer our enemy - but a valuable resource!? Sources The Biomimicry Institute, https://biomimicry.org/ The Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, https://challenge.biomimicry.org/en/challenge/global-design-challenge-2020 The Biomimicry Toolbox: toolbox.biomimicry.org/ The Taxonomy: https://asknature.org/resource/biomimicry-taxonomy/ AskNature: asknature.org 30 Days of Reconnection: https://biomimicry.org/30days/ The Namib Desert Bettle (Stenocara gracilipes), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenocara_gracilipes Zero Waste challenge (teaser) on Deedster, https://open.deedster.com/journey/anktNTg3MTE0NDYxMzcwNzc3Ng Plastic Free July, https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/ Support our work through Patreon You can make a one-time or even a monthly donation, starting at 5 USD. Your contribution will help us create more episodes of Love Zero Waste, with even richer content. Your support means the world to us! https://www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste Credits Hosts and creators: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist Jingle by Michael Steinkellner of Merlinn Sound, http://merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, http://circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, http://thegoodtribe.com.

Is incineration, burning waste, a good idea? Answer: No. In this episode of Love Zero Waste we’ll explore how incineration is hindering the closing of the loops and the transition towards a circular economy, and what the more sustainable alternatives are (spoiler alert: designing out waste!). Learn how the now world-famous town in Italy, Capannori chose another path than incineration and developed a locally adapted waste management plan, a solution that has panned out so well, that it has inspired more than 400 European municipalities to do the same. Also hosts Evelina Lundqvist and Malin Leth have a lot to say on the topic of incineration, “Burning waste - is never actually zero waste”. Guests in this episode are Claire Arkin of Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) and Rossano Ercolini, president of Zero Waste Europe and co-initiator of the no-burn success story in Capannori, Italy. Sources WIEGO: A technical guide on waste to energy alternatives https://www.wiego.org/sites/default/files/publications/file/IJgosse_waste-incineration_informal_livelihoods_WIEGO_TB11.pdf GAIA, the story of Capannori, https://www.no-burn.org/the-story-of-capannori-a-zero-waste-champion/ Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, GAIA, https://www.no-burn.org/ Burning issue: are waste-to-energy plants a good idea? (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/28/burning-issue-are-waste-to-energy-plants-a-good-idea Trends in Solid Waste Management (World Bank) https://datatopics.worldbank.org/what-a-waste/trends_in_solid_waste_management.html Incineration (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration Is burning plastic waste a good idea? (National Geographic) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/should-we-burn-plastic-waste/ Support our work through Patreon You can make a one-time or even a monthly donation, starting at 5 USD. Your contribution will help us create more episodes of Love Zero Waste, with even richer content. Your support means the world to us! https://www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste Credits Hosts and creators: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist Jingle by Michael Steinkellner of Merlinn Sound, http://merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, http://circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, http://thegoodtribe.com.

From farm to fork, nearly one-third of produce and cooked food is being thrown away. And the culprits are to be found everywhere: among manufacturers and producers, throughout logistics, in stores and restaurants, and among consumers, such as you and I. This fairly recent development amounts to a staggering waste of use of land, water, energy and calories. Love Zero Waste is dedicating an episode of the podcast to ending food waste from the consumers' perspective. Guests on the show are some of the most interesting initiatives out there, aiming to drastically reduce food waste and help save the planet. We're meeting with Estefania Coral Andrade, Vågen - Zero Waste Butik, and Helén Williams, associate professor at Karlstad University, focusing her research on food packaging and the reduction of food waste. Sources Eat Art Festival, https://www.eatart.se/ Vågen, https://www.vagenbutik.se/ Helén Williams, https://www.kau.se/forskare/helen-williams Avoiding food becoming waste in households – The role of packaging in consumers’ practices across different food categories, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652620318229 Credits Idea, production and editing: The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com and Circulous, www.circulous.biz Hosts: Evelina Lundqvist and Malin Leth Jingle: Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com Initiators the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz

Games and gamification is big business. Games, gamification and sustainable development, not so much. Not yet, anyway. But considering the sheer amount of us that play games on our smartphones, and the gaming market in total, this field could face a lot of development in the coming years. In this episode, we’re exploring how games and gamification can help us take action for a better future. And you’ll find some zero waste in there as well! Our guest in this episode is Monika Martinsson, co-founder of Deedster. Sources: Deedster website, https://www.deedster.com/ Zero Waste challenge (teaser) on Deedster, https://open.deedster.com/journey/anktNTg3MTE0NDYxMzcwNzc3Ng Definition: Gamification of Learning, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification_of_learning#:~:text=The%20gamification%20of%20learning%20is,inspiring%20them%20to%20continue%20learning. How green gamification can change the world, https://earthmaven.io/planetwatch/humanity-in-the-anthropocene/how-green-gamification-can-change-the-world-TFUODS0CyEyXgGPh7Lg2Bg https://www.givingforce.com/5-businesses-using-green-gamification-to-save-the-world/ https://www.sustainability-times.com/sustainable-business/playing-for-change-games-can-help-us-save-the-planet/ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbja4m/minecraft-global-warming-mod-adds-climate-change-carbon-tax The 12R of zero waste, https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/special-episode-turning-off-the-tap Credits Idea, production and editing: The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com and Circulous, www.circulous.biz Hosts: Evelina Lundqvist and Malin Leth Jingle: Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com Initiators the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz

From farm to fork, nearly one-third of produce and cooked food is being thrown away. And the culprits are to be found everywhere: among manufacturers and producers, throughout logistics, in stores and restaurants, and among consumers, such as you and I. This fairly recent development amounts to a staggering waste of use of land, water, energy and calories. As a part of this year’s digital edition of the EatArt festival, Love Zero Waste is dedicating an episode of the podcast to dive into solutions helping to end waste throughout food production. Guests on the show are some of the most interesting initiatives out there, aiming to drastically reduce food waste and help save the planet. Listen to Ebbe Korsgaard, of Beyond Coffee, Estefania Coral Andrade of Vågen zero waste shop, and Anders Burman of Östersund municipality share their insights on food production, logistics, circular loops, and much more! Sources Farm to Fork strategy, the European Commission, https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/safety/docs/f2f_action-plan_2020_strategy-info_en.pdf Eat Art Festival, https://www.eatart.se/ Vågen, https://www.vagenbutik.se/ Östersund Municipality, https://www.ostersund.se/ Beyond Coffee, http://www.beyondcoffee.eu/ Beyond the Bean: Turning Coffee Grounds Into Protein Powder, https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/impact-journalism-day-2018/MAGAZINE-beyond-the-bean-turning-coffee-grounds-into-protein-powder-1.6159229 Mycelium, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium#:~:text=Mycelium%20is%20the%20vegetative%20part,soil%20and%20many%20other%20substrates. Food Loss and Food Waste, FAO, http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/en/ Credits Idea, production and editing: The Good Tribe, www.thegoodtribe.com and Circulous, www.circulous.biz Hosts: Evelina Lundqvist and Malin Leth Jingle: Merlinn Sound, www.merlinnsound.com Initiators the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz

What is electronic waste? Why does 80% end up in landfills or go unaccounted for? And what can we do to prevent electronics - broken down smartphones, computers and tractors - turning into unsalvageable trash across the planet. Actually there’s a lot we can do! Yeeyy!! We’re back with a third season of Love Zero Waste! Guests in this episode are e-waste experts Ify Otuya, June E-waste Academy and Chloé Mikolajczak, Right to Repair. Listen to Ify and Chloé share their insights on the e-waste problem, its consequences for civil society and nature, and how business, politics and you and I can be part of creating new solutions. Sources June E-waste Academy, https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJEWA UN report: Time to seize opportunity, tackle challenge of e-waste, https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/un-report-time-seize-opportunity-tackle-challenge-e-waste Right to Repair, https://repair.eu The Repair Association, https://repair.org John Deere Just Swindled Farmers out of Their Right to Repair (WIRED), https://www.wired.com/story/john-deere-farmers-right-to-repair “A right to repair: why Nebraska farmers are taking on John Deere and Apple” (The Guardian), https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/06/nebraska-farmers-right-to-repair-john-deere-apple Support our work through Patreon You can make a one-time or even a monthly donation, starting at 5 USD. Your contribution will help us create more episodes of Love Zero Waste, with even richer content. Your support means the world to us! https://www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste Credits Hosts and creators: Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist Mixing by Umami, http://umamiproduktion.se Jingle by Michael Steinkellner of Merlinn Sound, http://merlinnsound.com Initiators of the Love Zero Waste community: Evelina Lundqvist and Alexandra Poetz Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous, http://circulous.biz and The Good Tribe, http://thegoodtribe.com.

Nudged by Earth Day Week and the COVID-19 crisis, which is revealing the cracks in our take-make-waste society like nothing we’ve ever seen before, we’re going to dive into how we, you and I, can help build a sustainable future together. Guest is Amanda Janoo, knowledge and policy lead over at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. Amanda is an economic policy expert working with governments and organisations around the globe. In this live session, you’ll learn more about what we all can contribute to creating a sustainable future, how to avoid replicating the same system (failure), with the same inequalities and unjust distribution of resources and power and the important role citizens can take in influencing policy. Hosts: Malin Leth, Circulous and Evelina Lundqvist, The Good Tribe Jingle: Merlinn Sound Sources The Wellbeing Economy Alliance, WEALL, https://wellbeingeconomy.org The Wellbeing Economy Alliance, WEALL, post-corona framework, https://wellbeingeconomy.org/building-back-better-depends-on-addressing-the-divides-in-our-economy Earth Day, https://www.earthday.org/ World Economic Forum on Build Back Better, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/how-to-build-back-better-after-covid-19/

What inspires a world-leading expert on upcycling? What signifies a really good upcycling project? What do I need to get started with upcycling? We’re about to find out! Right now Upcycle That is the world’s premier online upcycling destination. Upcycle That offers ideas, inspiration, and tutorials for reusing and repurposing common materials. Learn more about upcycling from a world-leading expert! Guest is Judy Rom, co-founder of Upcycle That and an upcycling superstar. But what is upcycling? Here’s Wikipedia's definition of upcycling: “Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality and environmental value”. In other words, turning trash into treasure! Hosts: Malin Leth, Circulous and Evelina Lundqvist, The Good Tribe Jingle: Merlinn Sound Sources Upcycle That, https://www.upcyclethat.com/

Whether you’re celebrating Easter or not, whether you’re in quarantine at the moment or not, many of us are looking forward to, or even longing to socialise and celebrate with others - holidays, parties, anniversaries, you name it! But how can we all make it through a holiday or celebration without generating a ton of trash - or even - go zero waste? Guests are Carlyn Grebleski, a-year-in-a-jar expert and blogger of Less Waste World and Andrea Lunzer, founder and CEO of the packaging-free and organic produce grocery store Lunzers Maßgreißlerei. In this episode of Love Zero Waste Live we’re talking about zero waste food, gifts, and travels - and the magic jar. Generating so little trash that you basically can fit it into a jam jar. Some people would say the jar has become something of a staple for the zero waste community. Not everyone is striving for that though. Simply put, today we’re all about tips and tricks on how to survive any holiday or celebration with as little waste as possible! Hosts: Malin Leth, Circulous and Evelina Lundqvist, The Good Tribe Jingle: Merlinn Sound Sources: Lunzers Maßgreißlerei, http://mass-greisslerei.at Less Waste World, www.lesswasteworld.com Episode with Carlyn in season 1, https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/episode-4-a-year-of-trash-in-a-jar-and-the-packaging-free-grocery-store

Any movement starts with you, yes you as an individual. We are change agents of our time and every big movement starts with one small step. On this first-ever live episode, you’ll learn more about how to mobilize and engage others for collective action. Our guest is Melati Wijsen of Bye Bye Plastic Bags, an organisation founded in Indonesia, and in the meantime a global movement, with 50 teams all over the world, that is working towards a world with no plastic bags. In this episode Melati shares her story and concrete tips for other aspiring change agents. Melati and her sister Isabel Wijsen founded Bye Bye Plastic Bags back in 2013. Together with many supporters and partners, they have been working on the frontline, advocating an official ban on plastic bags in Bali. Last year, the official ban on single-use plastics (plastic bags, straws, and Styrofoam) was enforced by the Balinese government. And what’s more! Melati just launched YOUTHOPIA, a program for equipping youth with tools and skills to become the next generation of changemakers. Sources Bye Bye Plastic Bags, http://www.byebyeplasticbags.org/ Youthtopia, http://www.youthtopia.world/ Melati Wijsen and Isabel Wijsen’s TED talk, https://www.ted.com/talks/melati_and_isabel_wijsen_our_campaign_to_ban_plastic_bags_in_bali Bali ban on single-use plastics, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/bali-fights-for-its-beautiful-beaches-by-rethinking-waste-plastic-trash/ 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 #lovezerowaste #saynotoplasticbags #circulareconomy #zerowaste #thegoodtribe #circulous #byebyeplasticbags #plasticpollution #plasticpollutionfree #youthopia #changemaker #youth #GetMorePlays

Malin and Evelina here! We’re popping by to tell you that we’re working in season three of Love Zero Waste! In our podcast, we talk to experts - entrepreneurs, designers, activists, and scientists - trying to drastically reduce the 2 billion tons of solid waste that humanity generates every year. These experts are working to break the link between economic growth and increased waste generation. And mind you, that number of 2 billion tons per year is rapidly rising, and it’s impacting our health and economy, and polluting the oceans and lands. Without urgent action, the 2 billion tons of waste we humans generate every year, will increase by 70% on current levels by 2050. We’ve created two seasons of Love Zero Waste and are now working on the third one. On the show, we’re tackling the seemingly boring topics of waste and waste management. But we’re looking at it from a ZERO waste perspective. ZERO waste makes all the difference. Waste is a sign of system failure. ZERO waste is about designing out waste. Not by burning or burying it, not even by recycling it. But by removing it from the equation. Everything stays in the loop. In season 3 we will dive deep into the topics of electronics, food and flames but also zero waste cities and what we can learn from imitating nature in design processes. Now is the time to stop climate change. With Love Zero Waste we want to show that the only way we can do this - is together. Season 3 is coming later this winter! Tune in to listen to Love Zero Waste on Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Podcast - or wherever you listen to podcasts. Support our work through Patreon! http://patreon.com/lovezerowaste

In this extra special episode, recorded after the Love Zero Waste online session at the Ellen McArthur Foundation Disruptive Innovation Festival, hosts Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist explain the 12 R of zero waste and explore new ideas and opportunities on how to tackle the system overload and create system change. In other words, turning off the tap! What are the 12 R of zero waste? Many of you will already know reduce, reduce and recycle. But there’s more: remember, respect, refuse, return, refill, rot, repurpose, restore and repair! Let's take a closer look! Mind you, this is not an attempt to define the concept of zero waste. The 12 R and the bullseye, which we talk about in the episode, featuring "remember" in the middle and "recycle" on the outer edge is a hands-on method to approach zero waste. * remember, respect, refuse, reduce, reduce, return, refill, rot, repurpose, restore, repair & recycle SOURCES https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20893132/european-union-eu-rules-right-to-repair-ecodesign-directive-environmental-spare-parts https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/07/plastic-produced-recycling-waste-ocean-trash-debris-environment/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/05/plastics-facts-infographics-ocean-pollution/ https://www.thinkdif.co/sessions/turning-off-the-tap-how-the-12-r-of-zero-waste-can-end-system-overload https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/ Support our work through Patreon! Make a one-time or even a monthly donation to Love Zero Waste through our Patreon page. Donations will allow us to make more, more frequents and even richer content for the podcast. Your support means the world to us! https://www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste Let us know what you think! 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 also leave a review on Apple Podcast. That would mean the world to us. And it makes it easier for more people to find us. Let’s co-create! Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous and The Good Tribe. We’re always open to ideas and collaborations. 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

Hosts Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist wrap up and summarise season 2 of Love Zero Waste! We share our most significant learnings and insights from the five episodes of season 2. We discuss the turning-off-the-tap allegory, superheroes in mycelium capes, the significance of hacking the system and collaborating, the lack of silver bullets and the importance of creating space for innovation and thinking crazy thoughts, ecosystem services, taboos and convenience contributing to trash and the future of regenerative single-use items. And what would we say if we met our alter-ego from a parallel universe, working for a medium-sized international business with a linear production line? Episodes in season 2: “How plastics revolutionised our lives and is now destroying the planet”, with Maggie Lee of WWF and Anders Ankarlid of A Good Company. (https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/episode-6-how-plastics-revolutionised-our-lives-and-are-now-destroying-the-planet) “The Change BIG money can accomplish”, with Reynir Indahl of Summa Equity and Matt Demorais of Unilever. (https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/episode-7-the-change-big-money-can-accomplish) “The magic of composting”, with Hana Nur Auliana of Waste4Change, Alfred Grand of Vermigrand and Ben Conard of Noissue. (https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/episode-8-the-magic-of-composting) “Building zero waste”, with the three winning teams of Denmark’s Circular Construction Challenge: From waste to biomaterial with Hanne Tine Ring Hansen and Jon Wedersøe Strunge, Reskur with Niels Jakubiak Andersen and Gentrae with Maria Ekblad. (https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/episode-9-building-zero-waste) “No excuse for single-use”, with Anne-Marie Harant of Erdbeerwoche and Afreen Kamran of Eco.pal. (https://soundcloud.com/lovezerowaste/episode-10-no-excuse-for-single-use) Sources: Mycelium, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium Regenerative economic theory, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_economic_theory Support our work through Patreon! Make a one-time or even a monthly donation to Love Zero Waste through our Patreon page. Donations will allow us to make more, more frequents and even richer content for the podcast. Your support means the world to us! https://www.patreon.com/lovezerowaste Let us know what you think! 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 also leave a review on Apple Podcast. That would mean the world to us. And it makes it easier for more people to find us. Let’s co-create! Love Zero Waste is a collaboration between Circulous and The Good Tribe. We’re always open to ideas and collaborations. 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 Special thanks to Åre Media Network, www.aremedia.se, for lending Evelina a microphone!

We’re drowning in everyday single-use items - plastic and otherwise! Toothbrushes, medication and grocery packaging, straws, tampons, coffee-to-go cups, paper and plastic bags, stockings, newspapers… The list is never-ending. In this episode, we’re meeting experts Annemarie Harant of Erdbeerwoche and Afreen Kamran of Eco.pal. Annemarie and Afreen are entrepreneurs working to educate and provide alternatives to single-use items on a large scale. Annemarie and Afreen share insights on fighting the habit to use and immediately dispose of everyday items, and what is being done through policy changes and mobilising youth to make a change. Annemarie and Afreen are driven by strong numbers. They have both done surveys on human behavior and observed what items end up in the bin or being flushed down the toilet. Moreover, they share a passion for not only making a change for themselves but for the masses. Prepare to get inspired! Also, Evelina and Malin reveal their own favorite single-use items. Could all single-use items be swapped for multiple-use? Perhaps. At least if you have an ear-scratching affinity... Sources Erdbeerwoche, https://www.erdbeerwoche.com Erdbeerwoche in Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/erdbeerwoche_ Ecopal on Instagram, https://instagram.com/eco.pal?igshid=h2uvc2eix72l Ears poons (or ear pick or ear scoop) (Wikipedia), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_pick Lahore University of Management Sciences, https://lums.edu.pk/ Disposable products (single-use items) (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_product “The single-use plastics you never thought about and 13 simple swaps” (Heidi Bischof), https://medium.com/@heidi_bischof/the-single-use-plastics-you-never-thought-about-and-13-simple-swaps-8f25df39019b “Single-use plastics a serious climate change hazard, study warns” (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/15/single-use-plastics-a-serious-climate-change-hazard-study-warns Report: “Marine pollution in the caribbean - not a minute to waste” (World bank) http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/482391554225185720/pdf/Marine-Pollution-in-the-Caribbean-Not-a-Minute-to-Waste.pdf “Caribbean beaches are littered with single-use plastics (World bank) https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/caribbean-beaches-are-littered-single-use-plastics m/ “Sustainable Menstruation - The Impact of Menstrual Products on the Environment” (Ayesha Mehrotra) https://medium.com/one-future/sustainable-menstruation-the-environmental-impact-of-menstrual-products-eba30e095cda “The people fighting pollution with plastic-free periods” (BBC), https://www.bbc.com/news/world-43879789 Think before you flush, https://thinkbeforeyouflush.org/ How diapers and menstrual pads are exposing babies and women to hormone-disrupting, toxic chemicals (Environmental Health News), https://www.ehn.org/diapers-and-menstrual-pads-chemicals-2627099478.html Let us know what you think! 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 also leave a review on Apple Podcast. That would mean the world to us. And it makes it easier for more people to find us. 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

As the world’s population grows and urbanization is on the rise, we continue to build and generate massive amounts of waste. Globally, more than 2 billion tons of solid waste is generated every year. And don’t fall off your chair now. About half of this comes from building materials. Steel, concrete, wood, you name it. Is zero waste in the building and construction industry even possible!? Now - or in the future!? In 2018, the Danish philanthropic association Realdania launched the “Circular Construction Challenge” to kickstart the circular transition in the building industry. In this episode, Malin meets up with the three winning teams of the challenge in Copenhagen to hear more about their work and how they will create change. The winning teams are represented by experts Niels Jakubiak Andersen from ReSkur, Maria Ekblad from Gentrae, Hanne Tine Ring Hansen and Jon Wedersøe Strunge from Waste to biomaterial. When 3D-printing becomes mainstream, and mycelium grown construction is tomorrow - then what will we see in the future? Wait a minute! Building houses...using funghi? This is science fiction! Evelina admits she’s a StarTrek fan and sees the connection with their use of the mycelial network. This is not the same thing, right? Also, the concept of regenerative buildings and our cultural connection to buildings captures our imagination. Sources Circular Construction Challenge, https://www.circularconstructionchallenge.org/ From waste to biomaterial (Circular Construction Challenge), https://www.circularconstructionchallenge.org/winners/from-waste-to-biomaterial-growing-new-building-materials-from-waste Gentrae (Circular Construction Challenge), https://www.circularconstructionchallenge.org/winners/gentrae-circular-alternative-introducing-reused-building-materials-in-large-scale-retail-sale ReSkur (Circular Construction Challenge), https://www.circularconstructionchallenge.org/winners/reskur-a-shed-for-future-generations-built-from-previous-generations-waste Realdania, https://www.realdania.org/ “3D-printed Gaia house is made from biodegradable materials” (DEZEEN) https://www.dezeen.com/2019/02/27/gaia-wasp-3d-printed-house-biodegradable-video/ “3D-printing in construction” (Designing buildings), https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/3D_printing_in_construction Capital institute (more on regenerative economy!), https://capitalinstitute.org/ “What a Waste 2.0” (Report by World Bank), https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/30317 “Snapshot of solid waste management” (a poster summary of the report “What a Waste 2.0” by World Bank), http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/429851552939596362/What-a-Waste-2-Revised-version.pdf “3 Real-Life Inspirations For The 'Star Trek: Discovery' Spore Drive” (FORBES) https://www.forbes.com/sites/linhanhcat/2019/03/19/star-trek-discovery-spore-drive/ Support our work through Patreon! Make a one-time or even monthly donation to Love Zero Waste on our Patreon page. Donations will allow us to make more, more frequent and even richer content for the podcast. Your support means the world to us! https://www.patreon.com/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

We’re taking a closer look at composting! Did you know that the transformation from biomass to humus soil is key to survival on earth? Since very few plants can grow without humus, we’re dependent on it. Let's dig into the science, business and awareness building of composting! In this episode, Evelina pays a visit to Alfred Grand, founder of Vermigrand, an earthworm compost and humus business in Austria. Malin meets up with Hana Nur Auliana, growth hacker of Waste4Change, a compost, recycling and consulting company in Indonesia. Moreover, we chat to Ben Conard, marketing director of Noissue a compostable mailer business in New Zealand. Alfred explains how composting works, he dives into hot and cold options, the commercial production of Vermigrand’s organic humus soil, and all the ways to keep earthworms happy and eager to do their work. Hana talks about Waste4Change’s programs “Send Your Waste” and “Zero Waste to Landfill”, and the efficiency of the Indonesian black soldier fly. Ben shares Noissue’s insights on composting as an incremental part of your business model and enabling for businesses and end-consumers to make environmentally sustainable choices. All in all, this is an episode celebrating not only earthworms and black soldier flies - but the critical change small and medium-sized business can contribute to! Oh, and by the “magic of composting”, we mean the science and biology of composting, it’s just so cool, we couldn’t help ourselves. This certainly is magical! Sources Vermigrand’s website, http://vermigrand.com Noissue’s website, http://noissue.co Waste4Change’s website, https://waste4change.com Definition of Homininae, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homininae Facts about earthworms, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthworm Facts about soldier flies, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetia_illucens Facts about soldier flies, https://waste4change.com/black-soldier-flies-bsf-great-business-opportunity-and-a-perfect-solution-to-organic-waste-problem/small-2/ Waste4Change’s “Send your waste program”, https://waste4change.com/sendyourwaste/ Waste4Change’s “Zero waste to landfill”, https://waste4change.com/official/service/zero-waste-to-landfill-management Facts about composting, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compost Composting guide, https://yuzumag.com/how-to-compost/ Facts about ecosystem services, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem_services How to make compost at home, https://happydiyhome.com/how-to-make-compost/ Let us know what you think! 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 also leave a review on Apple Podcast. That would mean the world to us. And it makes it easier for more people to find us. 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

In this episode, we're focusing on the role of investors and corporations in the zero waste movement - on BIG money. Reynir Indahl, founder and managing director at Summa Equity and Matthew Demorais, working with Global External Affairs at Sustainable Packaging of Unilever are guest in this episode. Investors and corporations contribute to the zero waste vision by trying to figure out how they can serve the market better, how they can earn more money, develop new products and services, push for new policies and much more. But what triggers change among the big players? How do they envision a zero waste society, and what are the concrete steps they’re currently taking? Reynir Indahl and Matthew Demorais share their insights on large-scale zero waste change processes and disruptions and the importance of co-creation and collaboration. Moreover, Reynir and Matthew share their own personal motivation for contributing to zero waste. Evelina and Malin discuss if system change doesn’t come down to a handful of people anyway… A special thank you to Raiffeisen Nachhaltigkeits-Initiative for supporting the making of this episode! We’ve very grateful for your help! https://www.raiffeisen.at/nachhaltigkeit/NA-NA-NA-1-NA.html Sources “We’re introducing reusable, refillable packaging to help cut waste” (Unilever), https://www.unilever.com/news/news-and-features/Feature-article/2019/we-are-introducing-reusable-refillable-packaging-to-help-cut-waste.html “Pepsi, Nestle, and more will test reusable packaging subscription service” (The Verge), https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/28/18200449/loop-reusable-packaging-subscription-service-pepsi-nestle-unilever The LOOP store, https://loopstore.com/ “Loop’s launch brings reusable packaging to the world’s biggest brands” (Green Biz), https://www.greenbiz.com/article/loops-launch-brings-reusable-packaging-worlds-biggest-brands Waste & packaging (Unilever), https://www.unilever.com/sustainable-living/reducing-environmental-impact/waste-and-packaging Summa Equity, http://summaequity.com Summa Equity closes its Fund II with SEK 6.5 billion to invest to solve global challenges (press release), https://news.cision.com/summa-equity/r/summa-equity-closes-its-fund-ii-with-sek-6-5-billion-to-invest-to-solve-global-challenges,c2751062 Norsk gjenvinning’s website, https://www.norskgjenvinning.no and Norsk gjenvinning on Summa Equity’s website, http://summaequity.com/solve/#tmc-373 Sortera’s website, https://sortera.se and Sortera on Summa Equity’s website http://summaequity.com/solve/#tmc-445 Let us know what you think! 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 also leave a review on Apple Podcast. That would mean the world to us. And it makes it easier for more people to find us. 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

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. Like, share and comment 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 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. Like, share and comment 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. Like, share and comment 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.