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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/