Podcasts about safia qureshi

Impact at Scale sits down with Safia Qureshi, founder and CEO of CLUBZERØ. CLUBZERØ is a ‘Packaging as a Service' platform that provides customers and consumers with a sustainable and scalable option beyond single-use. Safia discusses the importance of creating a zero-waste infrastructure at a city scale. She emphasizes the need for systemic change in how we manage waste, balancing convenience with sustainability, and the role of governance in implementing effective waste management solutions. Safia shares insights on leading indicators of consumer sentiment and the importance of collaboration among stakeholders to drive sustainability efforts.

"...The building blocks are moving, all the CPGs are developing this. They might not openly talk about it, but it's definitely happening behind the scenes." Libby Munford chats with CEO and founder of CLUBZERO, Safia Qureshi, to catch up on the latest news behind the scenes of Returnable Packaging Systems.Packaging Europe's podcast, featuring the leading international figures in packaging innovation, sustainability and strategy, is now weekly! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.

Safia Qureshi, founder and CEO of CLUBZERØ, joins Karthik, Mike, and Anthony to discuss the pitfalls and opportunities for returnable packaging.

Millions of us grab a coffee on our way to work. And when we do, it probably comes served in a branded, disposable, cardboard coffee cup. Once the coffee is done, just pop the cup into a recycling bin and forget about it. The cup will be taken away and turned into a new one for you to use again tomorrow. The system works, right?数以百万计的人在上班的路上喝杯咖啡。当我们这样做时，它可能会装在一个品牌的一次性纸板咖啡杯中。咖啡煮好后，只需将杯子放入回收箱即可，然后忘记它。杯子会被拿走，变成一个新的，让你明天再用。系统有效，对吧？There's a hitch. In the UK, we throw away an estimated 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups every year. And despite being recyclable in theory, in practice only very few of them are dealt with in a way that makes them sustainable. This makes them a bit of an obstacle. What throws a spanner in the works is the layer of polyethylene that makes the cup waterproof, and the lid, which is most often made of polystyrene. As a result, most of the cups end up in landfill.有一个障碍。在英国，我们每年丢弃大约 25 亿个一次性咖啡杯。尽管理论上是可回收的，但在实践中，只有极少数以可持续的方式处理。这使他们有点障碍。在作品中使用扳手的是使杯子防水的聚乙烯层和通常由聚苯乙烯制成的盖子。结果，大多数杯子最终被填埋。But there are efforts underway to tackle this issue. One company, Biome Bioplastics, has come up with a fully compostable, recyclable cup that uses natural materials, such as potato starch, as waterproofing. Mr Mines, its chief executive, believes that this is the first time bioplastic has been used for disposable cups and lids that have to cope with hot liquid. And they're still fully recyclable.但正在努力解决这个问题。一家名为 Biome Bioplastics 的公司提出了一种完全可堆肥、可回收的杯子，该杯子使用马铃薯淀粉等天然材料作为防水材料。其首席执行官 Mines 先生认为，这是首次将生物塑料用于必须应对高温液体的一次性杯子和盖子。而且它们仍然是完全可回收的。Another feasible solution has been proposed by Frugalpac, who have patented a cup with a lightly-attached plastic lining. This can be easily separated during the recycling and ‘offers a more pragmatic solution' than changing our current recycling habits, says Frugalpac's founder Martin Myerscough.Frugalpac 提出了另一种可行的解决方案，他们为带有轻微连接塑料衬里的杯子申请了专利。Frugalpac 的创始人 Martin Myerscough 说，这可以在回收过程中轻松分离，并且比改变我们当前的回收习惯“提供更实用的解决方案”。Safia Qureshi says India has provided the inspiration for her solution. She puts forward that we use returnable and reusable cups, which are tracked and collected by her company Cup Club. They will be responsible for collecting, washing and redistributing the clean cups to participating retailers.Safia Qureshi 说印度为她的解决方案提供了灵感。她提出我们使用可回收和可重复使用的杯子，这些杯子由她的公司杯子俱乐部跟踪和收集。他们将负责收集、清洗干净的杯子并将其重新分发给参与的零售商。One final example of lateral thinking comes from Cupffee. This trio from Bulgaria have combined cereals to form a cup which can be eaten once the drink is finished. It is apparently sweet and crisp, can hold a coffee for up to 40 minutes and will biodegrade within weeks.横向思维的最后一个例子来自 Cupffee。这个来自保加利亚的三人组合将谷物组合成一个杯子，一旦喝完就可以食用。它显然又甜又脆，可以容纳长达 40 分钟的咖啡，并且会在数周内生物降解。Whether any of these innovative ideas are a perfect fit for this disposable issue, only time will tell. It's possible that a more viable solution has yet to be ventured, though it may not be long in coming. All it may require is a little more thinking outside the box… or should that be coffee cup?这些创新想法中的任何一个是否非常适合这个一次性问题，只有时间会证明一切。一个更可行的解决方案可能还没有被冒险，尽管它可能很快就会到来。它可能需要的只是更多地跳出框框思考……还是应该是咖啡杯？词汇表hitch 小问题in theory 理论上obstacle 障碍throw a spanner in the works 从中捣乱，打乱计划tackle 解决，处理issue 问题come up with 提出、想出（主意）feasible 行得通的，可行的propose 提出offer a solution 给出解决方案pragmatic 实用的，重实效的inspiration 灵感put forward 提出（建议、想法等）lateral thinking 横向思维，发散式思维perfect fit 完美的答案viable 可行的，可望成功的venture 冒险去做，大胆尝试thinking outside the box 以新的眼光看问题，跳出传统思维框架

Reusable packaging has been around for a while already as an alternative to single-use plastic or disposable packaging, but if there was a way to level this sustainable experience up? That's where CLUBZERØ, formerly known as CupClub, comes in through innovatively combining sustainability and technology. Safia Qureshi of CLUBZERØ's joins us today to share how she went from being an architect to a startup CEO and founder and why their reusable packaging experience is better than the rest. Safia shares how her background in architecture has helped them develop CLUBZERØ as the most scalable and best quality setup in the market, why user experience or UX is a big deal, improving the customer journey, and more. She also gives her insights and advice for entrepreneurs on the qualities you need to survive, addressing customers' needs, and partnering up with the right businesses, among others. Tune in to this episode! With the likes of Just Eat, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Nestle, and more companies promoting the use of CLUBZERØ, we're proudly on the way to lessening or eradicating single-use or disposable packaging. Say no to disposable packaging and sign up to join CLUBZERØ here! https://www.clubzero.coSafia's key lessons and quotes from this episode were:“Fundamentally, it's about finding your purpose. I think you're answering your inner brief, which leads you to do what you do.” (7:59)“There's always value in selling your product if it's creating impact.” (51:25)In this episode, we also talked about:Finding your purpose (3:57)CLUBZERØ for consumers (17:17)How to gain customers (33:47)Overcoming COVID and other challenges (44:09)Support the show

In this episode Ali and Lamia speak to Safia Qureshi, founder of returnable takeaway packaging service CLUBZERØ. Ali and Safia discuss how CLUBZERØ was conceived and how the business is revolutionising the takeaway food industry by making circularity easy for consumers. 

Safia Qureshi is an award-winning architect, innovation designer and educator. She is also the founder of CLUBZERØ a company that's set its sights on building the infrastructure for sustainable food and beverage consumption.

Today's episode comes from the How To Lead a Sustainable Business podcast, brought to you by Selfridges Group and Intelligence Squared. In the podcast, Alannah Weston, Chairman of Selfridges Group, speaks to inspiring leaders at the forefront of sustainability and business to find out what it takes to lead change and how businesses can put sustainability at their core. In this episode Alannah is joined by Safia Qureshi, founder and CEO of CLUBZERO, an award-winning returnable packaging system for food and beverage brands globally. Safia is an architect, designer and innovator who decided to take on the redesign of one of the most challenging aspects of the food service industry system: the lowly single use coffee cup. She speaks to Alannah about disrupting single use plastics, the role of legislation in regulating packaging and the challenges women in leadership positions face.  How To Lead a Sustainable Business is brought to you by Selfridges Group and Intelligence Squared. If you enjoyed this episode please take a moment to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alannah Weston, Chairman of Selfridges Group, speaks to inspiring leaders at the forefront of sustainability and business to find out what it takes to lead change and how businesses can put sustainability at their core.  In this episode Alannah is joined by Safia Qureshi, founder and CEO of CLUBZERO, an award-winning returnable packaging system for food and beverage brands globally. Safia is an architect, designer and innovator who decided to take on the redesign of one of the most challenging aspects of the food service industry system: the lowly single use coffee cup. She speaks to Alannah about disrupting single use plastics, the role of legislation in regulating packaging and the challenges women in leadership positions face.   How To Lead a Sustainable Business is brought to you by Selfridges Group and Intelligence Squared. If you enjoyed this episode please take a moment to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.  

In this episode of Conquer The Noise, Jonathan talks with Safia Qureshi, founder and CEO of CLUBZERO. CLUBZERO pioneered an award winning returnable packaging system for food and beverage brands globally. They partner with businesses to make food and beverage on-the-go more sustainable; working towards the ultimate goal of zero waste. They serve customers across the EU and North America, including the world's largest food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway, NextGen Consortium brands (Starbucks, McDonald's, Coca Cola, Yum Brands, Nestle, Wendy's) as well as leading food service company Baxter Storey, Cushman & Wakefield and retailer John Lewis & Partners. With a philosophy of making reusables free and rewarding to use, safe and convenient to return, they've achieved a market leading return-rate of 95% vs industry standard of 60%. Safia talks about how they found a solution where they provide FNB outlets (brands, chains, small independents) the ability to give their customers an experience where they can take away their food in reusable packaging that they can return when finished. Safia talks about how there are startups that will deliver beverages direct to home in glass and how CLUBZERO differs by looking at the to-go experience and connecting tech to all of it. As a brand you can understand where your inventory is and how many times they're used before the end of life. The brief she created for herself was: How do we get rid of using something for 20 seconds and replace it with better products designed to last longer and have a better experience? Part of Safia's approach is an infrastructure play, creating the system for it to function. Safia talks through the roles of consumers and entrepreneurs. She says that consumers consume and take what they are given. While the role of an entrepreneur is to design what they are given.To further the point, she explains that we don't dictate what is in the supermarket -- we buy what we see - and we vote with our dollar to what we want to see more of. So, how do I design things people will want to see more of and vote on?Her self-developed brief involved the genesis of reusable packaging to have a unique identifier of each object. Their idea is that every item that exists has its own genome. It has a QR code, a unique identifier just for that item. It gets generated and exists in the world and is recorded by our platform. We develop a platform for clients to use their own packaging lines and empower brands to use reusable packaging by providing them guidelines. She continues that they don't want to own all the world's packaging - they deploy a number of it in every city and then work with brands to create their own. Once that's generated, these packaging items are distributed and set up in any given city. We work on a city-by-city basis and are scientifica about which cities we evaluate. The end goal is to have a drop off point within 5 minutes in any direction. Think like a mailbox. Once that's done, the customer journey is finished. You can buy from one location and drop off to any location near you. Safia talks about a new line launching next month for food with Just Eat. This is an opportunity to engage with customers and understand what the other types of packaging are that they can look at for them. She has come in to look at tech, plastic, cpg, and how the recycling world works and it's quite complex and unregulated. As the show comes to a conclusion, Safia talks about how the world is not a finished project -- if you see something, question it, and if you feel something could be better, go for it. Everything around us is a work in progress

[2:02] What inspired you to start CLUBZERØ? [6:42] How did you determine the market opportunity and feasibility? [10:37] How has your background in architecture helped you become an entrepreneur? [15:16] How did you prioritize what to do in the early days? [24:35] In 2018 and 2019 you were raising money, but had also had a baby. How was that experience and what would you say to other women entrepreneurs? [30:38] I've heard you say that confidence is your superpower. Where do you get your confidence from? Links:ClubzeroContact info: Hello@clubzero.coOr download the ClubZero App

Such a fun conversation with Safia Qureshi, CEO and Founder of CupClub, a maker of reusable packaging being used by major NextGen consortium brands like Starbucks.. We discussed the future of materials, the circular economy, how Safia’s background in architecture and design influenced her approach, the importance of research and user testing, why transparency is so important when it comes to sustainability, the importance of London towards the development of cutting edge design and more!

In episode 5 of Leading Insights we speak to Safia Qureshi, Director of Evidence at Healthcare Improvement Scotland. She tells us about her journey from Academia in to leadership. From leading the construction of the award winning Jack Copland Building and using her scientific background to inspire and achieve. She reflects on the role of evidence in the current COVID climate and her personal learning throughout her career

In this episode of Sustainability Matters Today, I interview Safia Qureshi, award-winning Architect, designer and environmentalist, founder of CupClub, and a Champion of Replacing the Disposable with the Reusable. CupClub partners with businesses, catering companies, facilities management providers, retailers and brands to replace disposable cups with a significantly more sustainable alternative. The company is pioneering the circular economy by creating a returnable cup that people can “borrow” from a coffee shop and return it to a convenient location once they’re done. With its products manufactured in the UK, CupClub creates half the carbon dioxide equivalent of disposables and ceramics, while significantly reducing waste. CupClub has earned a variety of awards including top prize winner from the 2017 Ellen MacArthur Foundation and IDEO and appeared in a number of media and publications, including BBC, Sky, Design Week, Core77, Dezeen, Design Indaba and The Drum. Please make sure to subscribe to the Sustainability Matters Today podcast to learn more about other champions of sustainability like Safia. I hope you enjoy the episode! Resources: Other Resources: Read the transcript: https://www.sustainabilitymatters.today/safia-qureshi-cupclub-transcript Watch the full episode: https://sustainabilitym.at/Safia-Qureshi-Youtube

Safia Qureshi, is a successful architect, founder of CupClub and a mother. Born in London, UK, Safia graduated in architecture from University College London and went on to do a Masters at the Royal College of Art. For over three years, she worked as the Lead Architect at the architecture practice Sheppard Robs In 2015 she launched the creative design agency Studio [D] Tale. where she launched her new venture, CupClub. In todays podcast ,We will talk about motherhood & entrepreneurship, how Safia raised a new round for her company while her daughter was 7 weeks old, and what circular economy can do to better our world. Her book recommendation: ‘Women who run with the wolves’ (find all the books at http://bit.ly/goodreadsad). Don’t forget this is Authentic Development where everyone can find their own way of authentic development. For more, follow me & this podcast on social media: https://www.instagram.com/natalia.kiskova/ @natalia.kiskova @authenticdevelopment

Reusable mugs: you’ve bought and used them, loved and lost and forgotten them, replaced and reused them. Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to remember to bring your mug everywhere you go to be part of the reusable revolution? Wouldn’t it be great if cities had cup shares that work like our bike shares? Thankfully, some brilliant innovators are on it! In this episode we talk with Safia Qureshi, an award-winning architect, innovation designer and educator, and founder of CupClub™ - a returnable packaging service for drinks that launched in the UK in 2018. Safia shares the nitty gritty design challenges involved in creating CupClub, and the world-changing potential of this circular economy solution. Listen now to & subscribe to The Indisposable Podcast to stay updated on more solutions-focused inspiration! Learn more at https://cupclub.com/

Who are the new voices pushing for change in the food system? Sheila Dillon hears from Alice Thompson of Social Bite, a charity that distributes over 100,000 hot drinks and meals to Scotland’s most vulnerable people every year from its sandwich shops and every Monday afternoon they invite people experiencing homelessness to their restaurant Vesta for a free sit-down two-course meal. Sheila also meets Ben Adler who was the husband of TV producer Pat Llewellyn who made stars of the Two Fat Ladies and Gordon Ramsay and launched Jamie Oliver's TV career. Pat died of metastatic breast cancer in October 2017 and we hear from Jamie Oliver about his memories of Pat and what made her so good at nurturing new talent. To honour the impact Pat had on the food industry the Food and Farming Awards is launching a Pat Llewellyn New Talent Award. It will see Ben and his co-judge Barney Desmazery, Senior Food Editor at BBC Good Food, on the search for fresh voices in the food system who could be campaigners, innovative cooks and people taking a different approach to a food or drinks business. To understand more about the types of people they might be looking for they met one of the strongest but lesser-known voices in the food system today. At Where The Light Gets In restaurant in Stockport they met founder Sam Buckley who is taking a new approach to every facet of running a restaurant with unflinching principles when it comes to responsibility for his staff and for the environment. We also hear from last year's Food and Farming Awards winner Kimberley Bell and our Future Food Award judges entrepreneur William Kendall and the Oxford Cultural Collective's Don Sloan meet Safia Qureshi who is building an alternative to disposable cups with her business CupClub. Producer: Tom Bonnett

This week: insight from the recent Innovation Forum webinar on the business challenges in developing realistic alternatives to plastic packaging, with Iceland's Ian Schofield, Surfdome's Adam Hall and CupClub's Safia Qureshi. Plus an in-depth discussion between Greenpeace forest campaigner Richard George and Innovation Forum's Toby Webb on where the business and deforestation debate is going and why progress has been slow. And news of the new World Benchmarking Alliance, palm oil trader Wilmar pushing back against deforestation allegations and more supermarket pledges on plastic us, in the regular roundup. Hosted by Ian Welsh

In this webinar, practitioners from Iceland Foods, Surfdome and CupClub take a pragmatic look at what brands are doing to face the challenges around plastics, packaging, and sustainable innovation. They discuss the new approaches they have taken to packaging, including working to eliminate plastic entirely in the case of Iceland, business benefits and how best to engage all stakeholders to drive forward reduction in plastic waste and pollution. Joining Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh are: Ian Schofield, own label and packaging manager for Iceland Foods; Adam Hall, head of sustainability at Surfdome; and Safia Qureshi, founder and CEO, CupClub.  

We find out about a fabulous initiative designed to make single-use plastic reduction even easier; and one that could be coming to a coffee shop near you very soon...Christy caught up with "Cup Club" founder Safia Qureshi and operations manager Rosanna Capper. Visit www.cupclub.com to find out more

This episode is the last of the mini series speaking with architects who have gone beyond the traditional realm of architectural practice entering into new design genres and businesses. Today I speak with Safia Qureshi, co-founder of environmental research and design studio, Studio D Tale and founder / CEO of innovative returnable package service, Cup Club. Cup Club was born as a research idea within Studio D Tale to eliminate single use plastics. Realising the potential of her idea and driven by a commitment to protect the welfare of our environment, Safia has made an inspiring journey from architect to CEO. She has found investment for her idea, is partnering with catering companies, facilities management companies, retailers and brands and has gone into production with the first iteration of their reusable, traceable coffee cups.  Cup Club launched a successful pilot scheme at the RA in 2017 and also won the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Innovation Prize. I hope you find as much inspiration in this interview as I did, and I’d love to hear from more architects who are utilising their architectural skillsets to cross boundaries into different disciplines and industries.

This is the second part of Rion Willard's interview with Safia Qureshi. Qureshi is the co-founder of Studio D Tale, and works to push innovation, technology and design experimentation. Although still a young firm, she already has an impressive and diverse array of clients. She is also deeply involved in education and the continuing education of architects.

In this episode, you'll hear from Rion Willard as he sits down with UK-based architect today we have Safia Qureshi who is a young, bright rising talent in the architecture world. She is the co-founder of Studio D Tale, and she works cross-disciplinary with pushing innovation, technology, and design experimentation. Her business has already worked with an impressive and diverse array of clients. She is also deeply involved in education and the continuing education of architects.