Sustainable(ish)
Jen Gale
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Jun 4, 2019 • 48min
[035] #BLEEDREDTHINKGREEN – THE WORLD’S FIRST REUSABLE TAMPON APPLICATOR
In this episode I’m chatting to Celia Pool one of the co-founders of DAME – a sustainable self-care brand on a mission to turn our bathrooms green.Did you know that globally we throw away 100 billion sanitary products every year? Which is enough to circle the globe 250 times. Plastic tampon applicators are a big […]
May 29, 2019 • 10min
[034] #NONEWJUNE WITH MCR LOVE YOUR CLOTHES
Every year an estimated 300,000 tonnes of used clothing goes to landfill in the UK.In the UK we buy more clothes per person than any other country in Europe.It takes over 2000 litres of water to make one single cotton t-shirt.17% of young people said they wouldn’t wear an outfit again if it had been […]
May 22, 2019 • 1h 23min
[033] ECOBRICKS – ALL YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED!
If you've not got time to listen to the podcast or read the whole post, scroll to the end for the 'take home' points! Ecobricks. Plastic bottles packed with clean and dry plastic that can then be used literally as building bricks for a whole variety of structures. They seem to the the marmite of […]
May 15, 2019 • 11min
[032] – THE INTROVERTS GUIDE TO CLIMATE MARCHES (OR HOW TO GO ON A PROTEST MARCH IF MARCHING REALLY ISN’T YOUR THING)
I'm not sure about you, but I've sat behind my phone or my laptop on social media watching the youth climate marches, and the Extinction Rebellion protests with a mixture of gratitude, and awe, maybe a little bit of envy. And I've also curled up inside at the thought of going along myself. I feel like […]
May 8, 2019 • 50min
[031] PLASTIC FREE PERIODS AND WIPES WITH SUSIE HEWSON FROM NATRACARE
If you've not got time to listen to the podcast or read the whole post, scroll to the end for the 'take home' points! When I was first approached to ask if I would be interested in interviewing the Susie Hewson, the founder of Natracare about their new safe to flush wipes my instant response […]
May 1, 2019 • 47min
[030] SISTERS AGAINST PLASTIC
How do you feel when you open your bin to throw something away? Or after you've done your weekly shop? Smug and self-congratulatory at just how little single use plastic there is? Or like most of us, guilty and overwhelmed by quite how much there is?Teresa Walters was faced with a whole bin full of […]
Mar 27, 2019 • 53min
[029] THE END OF TOYBOX CLUTTER? WITH NIGEL PHAN FROM WHIRLI
Did you know that on average kids in the UK receive around £350 of toys a year? I was pretty shocked when I read this, and indignantly though to the myself "there’s no way that applies to my kids", especially as we buy the vast majority of their toys secondhand. But when I stopped and […]
Mar 20, 2019 • 1h 15min
[028] BUY LESS, BUY BETTER WITH TARA BUTTON FROM BUY ME ONCE
In today’s episode I'm chatting to Tara Button, the founder and CEO of Buy Me Once, and author of A Life Less Throwaway. After receiving a Le Crueset saucepan as a gift, Tara set out to look for a website that sold "the Le Crueset of everything" - meaning products that are made to last, […]
Mar 12, 2019 • 34min
[027] THE WORLD’S MOST SUSTAINABLE PET FOOD – WITH TOM NEISH FROM YORA
Welcome back to Sustainable(ish)!Today I’ve got an interview lined up for you with Tom Neish who is the founder and head honcho of Yora pet food, a new pet food brand that claim to be the world’s most sustainable pet food.So what makes them so sustainable I hear you ask? Well I’m glad you asked. It’s […]
Mar 5, 2019 • 7min
[026] 5(ISH) MINUTE GUIDE TO…A SUSTAINABLE(ISH) LENT
It's pancake day - hurray! Which means it's the start of Lent tomorrow - traditionally 40 days and 40 nights of fasting before Easter to remember Jesus' time in the wilderness.Now I’ve never really done Lent, but it’s a time of year when some people choose to take on a challenge and give up something they […]
