ZERO WASTE TO CLIMATE CHANGE: INVESTING IN OUR FUTURE WITH LAUREN SINGER
In this episode, I'm joined by Lauren Singer, environmental activist, investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Trash is for Tossers.
Lauren created and founded Trash is For Tossers, a resource for reducing your waste daily, Zero Waste inspiration, environmental education, and everyday actions that create a positive impact in 2014. Starting as a personal blog, Lauren documented her personal journey of reducing her waste to zero.
Lauren, who started living a Zero Waste 2 years earlier in 2012, first went viral for fitting a year’s worth of all of the waste she’d created in one 16oz mason jar. Nicknamed by her community as the “the girl with the trash jar”, Lauren went on to give a Ted Talk that brought the concept of Zero Waste to millions.
“I realized all hope is not lost. Yes the climate has been changing, however we haven’t been investing in the lever that we need to pull to stop warming now, and that lever is methane. We feel we’re just at the beginning of a conversation, of re-focus, of shift into what actually matters in our lifetime which is stopping this methane.”
Topics Covered:
What inspired her passion for creating large scale environmental impact
Starting her blog Trash is for Tossers
Practical tools on where to start with environmental impact
Defining what it means to live a Zero Waste life
The motivation to create Package Free Shop
