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Age of Plastic

Age of Plastic

Andrea Fox

An environmental podcast with tips on how to live plastic free! Host Andrea Fox tackles big ethical issues with her knowledgeable guests, all in the hope of overcoming the climate change overwhelm and battling the single-use plastic guilt.
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Age of Plastic - Plastic Myths

Plastic Myths

Age of Plastic

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04/16/21 • 43 min

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 scholarly articles into digestible Instagram posts for her audience, while also working her main job helping businesses to integrate sustainable development goals into their daily operations. Today's she's busting some plastic myths on the Age of Plastic Podcast.
https://sustainableandsocial.com/
Compare Ethics website

https://compareethics.com/

Outland Denim

https://www.outlanddenim.co.uk/

https://canopyplanet.org/people/nicole-rycroft/
Cora Ball
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Age of Plastic - Series Round Up and movie star Dougray Scott!
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02/23/21 • 26 min

A round up of everything from the most recent series!
Featuring Dr Imogen Napper, finance expert Rebecca O'Conner, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales Sophie Howe, Julia Giannini, ITV's Senior Sustainability Manager and Phil Holdgate, Head of Production and Sustainability for ITV Studios.
Plus Ever After star Dougray Scott to talking about Wateraid's new campaign.
The campaign video is called the The Girl Who Built a Rocket. Watch here; https://youtu.be/lmBp2-t38Mw
Catch up with all of the recent episodes here;
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This weekend's live will be with fashion brand with Beach Flamingo on their Instagram
Sat 27th Feb at midday
https://www.instagram.com/beach_flamingo/
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Age of Plastic - Composting, and coffee with GRIND
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08/18/22 • 30 min

30,000 plastic and aluminium coffee pods are sent to landfill each minute.
Today talking composting and coffee I'm joined by TV gardening guru Daisy Payne and Grind founder David Abrahamovitch to find out more!
https://grind.co.uk/
Plus a look back at former coffee-loving guests, James Proter Blane & Sarah Lynn from Halo Coffee - worlds first compostable coffee capsule.
https://halo.coffee/

And Vicky Poon from Alpaca Coffee talking about greenwashing tactics

https://alpacacoffee.co.uk/

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KUBIK turn plastic waste into low-carbon buildings, and the start up has just been awarded Africa’s Start Up of the Year!
100% Plastic Waste and 40% Cheaper. Today I’m joined by Kidus Asfaw Co founder and CEO to tell us the story of Kubik, which he came to via charity Unicef and companies like Google. Find out Kubik is, how his co-founder Penda Marre came to design it, brilliant environmental innovations across the continent of Africa, how bad construction is for the planet and some really emotional stories of landfill waste in his birth city of Addis in Ethiopia plus the hiding of waste in San Francisco, and one of the best suggestions for Plastic Items we are thankful for, ever.
https://www.buildkubik.com/
Eco Bricks (not Kubik)
https://www.seasaltash.org.uk/eco-bricks-are-not-ok/

More plastic innovation from Kenya
https://news.yahoo.com/kenyan-woman-finds-way-recycle-053411779.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2FzdGUzNjAuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACCs3O_sFh0aEk_sDCcgttyVjEbQXBmJSvPu4B99obCMr3xiNIxOPUAy4Ib7dJD8K--SbQw0wAM5GAsW2X8pRlNt0U_opmdlYouZe2A10QuDuLtbGeWAeSsLJGfhVnNund-LZD1OvtM56YO-VZqQSeUnmaN7zTJ7R6WvnwX0H5Gk
Zero Waste Shops
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How do you pick your veg? Shiniest apples? Biggest potatoes? Absolutely no brown spots on your bananas? Terrifyingly even before it leaves the farm for our shops there’s a massive amount of food that is wasted. A third in fact! Worth 17 billion pounds! Why is this? Well find out from today’s guest...Odd Box is a London's first and only fruit and veg box that fights food waste by rescuing fresh and delicious surplus & wonky produce straight from the farm.Co-founder of ODD BOX Emilie Vanpoperinghe decided wonky veg is where it’s at! Hear all about Odd Box’s food waste revolution, and get 50% off your first Odd Box delivery with the code AGEOFPLASTIC www.oddbox.co.ukHow bad are bananas? Bookhttps://profilebooks.com/how-bad-are-bananas.htmlHear from Odd Box suppliershttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKwQfxpiFjC44olpDslpTIQHugh Fearnley-Whittingstallhttps://www.rivercottage.net/war-on-wasteECO LIFE HACKhttps://co2.myclimate.org/

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Age of Plastic - How to become a zero waste beauty brand?
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05/13/19 • 43 min

On this edition of the Age of Plastic Podcast I chat to the CEO of Clean Beauty brand REN Skincare, Arnaud Meysselle.Find out what it takes to become a zero waste beauty brand, why grey is the new green, REN's Clean to Planet recycled plastic innovations and a new eco-friendly delivery scheme they've teamed up with.Let me know your thoughts below!Here are the links to everything we chatted about;REN Skincarehttps://www.renskincare.com/REN Clean to Skin, Clean to Planet pledgehttps://www.renskincare.com/pages/this-is-renLoop delivery system (heading to the UK in the Autumn) https://loopstore.com/Surfridershttps://www.surfrider.org/Terracyclehttps://www.terracycle.com/en-GB/Lizzie Carr of Plastic Patrolhttps://lizzieoutside.co.uk/plastic-patrolCHANEL invests in sustainable packaging start-uphttps://www.environmentalleader.com/2018/12/chanel-sustainable-packaging-sulapac/Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard on Climate Changehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/10/yvon-chouinard-patagonia-founder-denying-climate-change-is-evilThe Joesph Bathroom Binhttps://www.josephjoseph.com/en-gb/split-steel-recycler-binBeauty Bankshttps://www.beautybanks.org.uk/Give & Make Uphttps://www.carolinehirons.com/page-give-and-makeupClimate Emergency articles- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ireland-climate-emergency-united-kingdom-greta-thunberg-global-warming-a8909396.html- https://www.ft.com/content/f47e2bc2-733b-11e9-bbfb-5c68069fbd15?accessToken=zwAAAWqwdkiYkdP0fivCczsR6dO7-1xoBp-9FQ.MEQCIE8m44DIbCmgMAWzx0xwBk3YqQRIzFHjtPrQngpTouz0AiBDqGQc9hUamaCep7Q_BoKaJjxWWhfdDDBtQaC2lhZTBQ&sharetype=gift?token=97e30753-9166-4027-a90b-d736b2a15ce8

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Age of Plastic - Climate Change and Covid
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04/09/21 • 35 min

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 non-fiction.

As well as the results of a survey into climate attitudes across the world we talk Bitcoin! And that most difficult of questions; What hardest things to give up to stop climate change?

Matt Rees Award Winning Climate Solutions Podcast

https://www.eib.org/en/podcasts/series/climate-solution/index.htm?q=&sortColumn=startDate&sortDir=desc&pageNumber=0&itemPerPage=9&pageable=true&language=EN&defaultLanguage=EN&_g_serie_serieId=climate-solution&or_g_serie_serieId=true

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Age of Plastic - What can you do with the hard to recycle stuff?
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09/02/19 • 39 min

You've got your recycling boxes at home, maybe composter or food waste bin... but what about your workplace? And what about all those fluorescent light bulbs, coffee granules, printer jets, cooking oil and hangers that you might be using where you work?First Mile are a recycling service that since 2004 has been helping 27,000 businesses like Caffe Nero, Innocent Drinks and the National Gallery to leave a greener footprint on the planet by recycling their waste to the max. Their ethos is to make it easy for businesses to do the right thing.Hear from Chief Commercial Officer Joe Allen about innovations First Mile are working plus we talk driverless cars and coffee perfume.First Mile https://thefirstmile.co.ukSacktory - The Labhttps://thefirstmile.co.uk/sacktoryBio Beanhttps://www.bio-bean.com/coffee-logs/Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinardhttps://www.patagonia.com/company-history.htmlEarthling Edhttps://earthlinged.org/Oxfamhttps://www.oxfamapps.org.uk/secondhandseptember/

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Age of Plastic - The Future of Food Packaging
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04/23/21 • 33 min

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 (in the UK and Australia)
www.BioPak.com/uk
Ella Daish on the Age of Plastic Podcast
https://podfollow.com/age-of-plastic/episode/569a7fb7b66b9a6203c437276212a2a55e8c7f28/view
Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, Sophie Howe on the Age of Plastic Podcast
https://podfollow.com/age-of-plastic/episode/06fd5e541283a11c8fb48bd464a221109a8ee84c/view
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How many episodes does Age of Plastic have?

Age of Plastic currently has 114 episodes available.

What topics does Age of Plastic cover?

The podcast is about Climate Justice, How To, Environment, Earth Sciences, Living, Podcasts, Green, Education and Science.

What is the most popular episode on Age of Plastic?

The episode title 'How to have a holiday that's better for the planet...' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Age of Plastic?

The average episode length on Age of Plastic is 34 minutes.

How often are episodes of Age of Plastic released?

Episodes of Age of Plastic are typically released every 10 days, 1 hour.

When was the first episode of Age of Plastic?

The first episode of Age of Plastic was released on Sep 11, 2018.

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