Love Zero Waste Circulous & The Good Tribe

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.

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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!

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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

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THANK YOU!

A very warm thank you to Michael Steinkellner, Merlinn Sound for creating a revamped version of our jingle. We love your work!

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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

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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!

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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.