Circular skincare! By Product Beauty! What is it? Find out about Upcircle Beauty from co-founder Anna Brightman. They’re a natural, sustainable, refillable skincare brand, that is vegan, certified cruelty-free, comes in plastic-free packaging and many of their products have won awards… and you may have seen her and her brother on BBC’s Dragons Den a few years ago! Upcircle Beauty  https://upcirclebeauty.com/ How we can all be activists with Mikaela...

Dotte hopes to be a one stop, fully circular solution for parents for kids clothes. Buy, Sell, Donate, Recycle and more.  According to Dotte shopping 2nd hand can save 75% of Co2 emissions caused by clothing. I’m chatting with Louise today as we find out what recycled clothes are used for and what percentage of parents throw kids clothes away because they don’t know what to do with do with them? https://www.wearedotte.com/ For sustainable toys: Whirli on the Age of Plastic...

Big companies, making bigs change has a big impact… Garnier UK have launched their ONE  GREEN STEP campaign. Today we hear about that and their environmental pledges for 2025 and from their partner NGO Plastics For Change. Emily Bryne Garnier UK One Green Step https://www.garnier.co.uk/onegreenstep Andrew Almack Plastics For Change https://www.plasticsforchange.org/ ECO LIFE HACKS Worlds first zero waste...

This is a little taster of all the brilliant guests on the latest series of the Age of Plastic Podcast. A huge huge huge thank you to all our guests this series for giving their time, and to every single person who has ever spoken to me for the Age of Plastic Podcast. A massive massive massive thank you to you for listening. I'd love to know what you would like to hear in 2022. GET IN...

Discover the joy of plogging, beach clean ups and a bit of plastic craft! Today’s guest is Flora Blathwayt, founder of greetings cards company Washed Up Cards, a project she started whilst furloughed in lockdown. These cards are almost plastic free, having been made using plastic found washed up on rivers and beaches around the UK.  Washed Up Cards https://washedupcards.uk/ Washed Up Cards Instagram https://www.instagram.com/washedupcards/ Thames...

So excited to be join today by Aja Barber. She is a writer, personal stylist and style consultant based in South London. Her work focuses on sustainability, ethics, intersectional feminism racism and all the ways systems of power effect our buying habits. Her debut book 'CONSUMED THE NEED FOR COLLECTIVE CHANGE: COLONIALISM, CLIMATE CHANGE & CONSUMERISM' is out now! We discuss not only her book - obviously - but questions like is fast fashion killing fashion for future designers? How you...

Today we hear from Jon Roesser General Manager at Weavers Way Co-Op in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania - a member-owned cooperative grocery. Find out what a food co-op is, what Weavers Way is aiming to do, the tiny percent of food we have to grow, to make a big difference, and what do keep in mind when food shopping to lessen our waste, Organic Fair Trade Bananas and blueberries in winter, climate change and farming! Weavers Way  https://weaversway.coop/ Food Co-Ops...

Do you have a bin? Today’s guests don’t! Meet the Zero Waste family from San Diego called the Syrens, James, Fredrika and their 3 kids Bella, Noah and Liam. They worked on an NBC show in October 2021, from Ava DuVernay (behind movies Selma and a Wrinkle In Time) titled Home Sweet Home.  Find out how they do it, what Fredrika thinks of as green money, raising kids who love veg and James GREAT tip for noticing your waste!  BOOK: Zero Waste for Families: A Practical...

What if nothing in your life was single use? If we valued things we own and not send them abroad to be incinerated or pollute other countries? Last Object co founder and co-designer Isabel Aagaard joins me from Copenhagen to talk about ending our throw away culture. https://lastobject.com/ Good...

Today's guest is Pierre Paslier, from start up NOTPLA who with co-founder Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez developed this material, Ooho - at Imperial College London. It's an edible flexible plastic replacement which biodegrades and disappears without harm to the environment in a few weeks. Find out the reasons behind those names NotPLA & Ooho - Piere’s hopes for the p coming COP26, where mushrooms, shrimp shell and coffee bean waste feature in the future of plastic packaging plus some of his...

Today’s guest, senior UNEP expert Jacqueline McGlade, spoke to me from Kenya, all about the new UN Plastic Pollution Report published recently.  Jacqueline McGlade is a Marine Biologist, Environmental Science Professor, she’s worked for the European Environment Agency and now for the UN Environmental Programme.  See the full UN Environmental Programme below; https://www.unep.org/resources/pollution-solution-global-assessment-marine-litter-and-plastic-pollution More from Jacqueline...

Today’s guest is CEO of EarthKind Energy Consulting & host of the Awesome EarthKind Podcast, which discusses how the forces of nature Earth, Air, Water and the Sun can provide all the energy we need as a planet 1000% over! Today find out from Ron Kamen, how energy efficient are we? Whats the best flavour of clean energy? Hydro, Solar, Thermal, Tidal or Wind? Whats behind our energy issues at the moment? Carbon capture technology? And what to look for when you pick a clean energy provider,...

This episode I'm talking composting and compostable biodegradable materials with Jeremy Lang, founder and VP of Sustainability at Pela. We also talk about the brand new countertop composter and cleaning up oil spills, why nature has it figured out  and cutting out the middle man when it comes to garbage! “Theres no waste in nature, and no other species wastes like humans” “To really truly leave the world a better place for future generations, it can’t just be us it has to be every...

What if everything that looked like plastic wasn’t? What if it was something better? Better in that it was a truly biodegradable material, and a product that wasn’t just carbon neutral but carbon negative? In that it takes harmful greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere in its creation? California-based Newlight Technologies have spent more than a decade developing a revolutionary material called AirCarbon. It uses greenhouse gas as feedstock to create a meltable, carbon-negative material that...

According to Reboxed, with 10 billion phones now in existence we’ve got more phones than humans on the planet! Reboxed want to fight e-waste by making it easier and cheaper to buy or sell certified refurbished devices with them than buy new.  Today Phil Kemish the Co founder & CEO of Reboxed discusses the damage to our planet of e-waste, the right to repair movement and THAT expose on Amazon waste… plus Reboxed big plans to fight e- waste with an app! https://reboxed.co/ Reboxed Future...

Today let’s talk GOLD.. and other precious metals.  Catch Rhys Jones is the founder and creative director of jewellery brand Catch Rhys, ‘solid jewellery that doesn’t cost the earth.’ The brand is described as honestly priced, plus it’s plastic free with recycled paper and reusable packaging and use 85% recycled metals, hoping to be 100%. Find out why Catch prefers to call the brand RESPONSIBLE over SUSTAINABLE, why recycled materials aren’t on everyones radar, the weird spaces were we...

Today on the Age of Plastic Podcast CEO of compostable tableware brand Repurpose Lauren Gropper tells us why we have Hollywood to thank for Repurpose, the major innovations on the way in the space and why the cultural icon - the red plastic cup - is on it’s way out! Plants Over Plastic - Tableware for people and planet. https://repurpose.com/ Pela Phone Case https://pelacase.com/ Vote for the Age of Plastic Podcast in the British Podcast Awards https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/ GET IN...

Today I’m in discussion with Lora Nikolaev Gene, founder of contemporary British based label Lora Gene, who produce each garment through conscious sourcing and with care about the environment and the workers.  This discussion is about pushing the conversation around fashion and sustainability forward, from action to words. Lora Gene https://loragene.com/ Lora Gene’s article in Live Frankly  https://livefrankly.co.uk/fashion/lora-gene-enough-talk-lets-start-the-fashion-revolution/ Lora’s shout...

We went #3 in the US in the Earth Science category! Thanks so much for listening!  For the start of this new series, find out about the innovation creating new PPE from old PPE Andy Straisfeld is the VP of Business Development of Lifecycle Revive in Canada.  lifecyclerevive.ca [email protected]   End Plastics Now Founder; https://twitter.com/SadrachNirere  Article on Black female travel writer Jessica...

A round of of the guests we've heard from in this series plus a taste of the topics for the next series of the Age Of Plastic Podcast. Plus as promised in the low carbon gardening episode - Sally Nex, recipe for compost!  What would you love to hear in the next series?  I'd love to know... GET IN TOUCH! https://www.instagram.com/ageofplasticpodcast/ https://twitter.com/andrea_fox https://www.iamandreafox.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/ageofplasticpodcast

Petria Leggo-Field from Coco Rose Eco and the Sustainable Shift Podcast talks to me about eco entrepreneurs. She works to helping them make the biggest impact, but what does sustainable business impact mean in reality? More on today’s episode!  https://cocoroseeco.com.au/podcast/ https://cocoroseeco.com.au/ https://ocg.org/ https://www.instagram.com/ethicalinfluencers/ https://www.sendle.com/ ECO LIFE HACK - PODCASTS  https://www.podcastersdeclare.com/ GET IN...

What is the solution to single use plastic waste? Today we are delving into single-use plastic alternatives, what bio plastic is, and the future of food packaging with Sales Manager from BIOPAK Richard Harries.Biopak is an eco-friendly packaging company...

Amy Nguyen works as a sustainability strategist — but is more commonly known on Instagram as @sustainableandsocial, a blog dedicated to educating people about sustainability in fashion, beauty, business, and more. Since 2018, she’s turned research and...

Today me and Matt Rees from Climate Solutions Podcast discuss Covid and Climate Change. Now the latest Climate Solutions delved into this.Matt Rees is a former foreign correspondent with Time and Newsweek and the author of nine novels and a book of...

Did someone say beveragino…? Seachange Wine are passionate about two things: protecting our oceans from plastic pollution and great tasting wine. Simon Rolfe from Seachange talks innovation in wine packaging, why people want to buy from a company that...