11: A glimpse into plastics from Southeast Asia with Beau Baconguis
07/01/19 • 6 min
Today’s episode will center around the plastic pollution in Southeast Asia.
If you travel to Southeast Asia, you’ll notice how food packaging differs from what we are used to here in the global north. This small plastic packaging called “sachet” is now causing major harm to our environment particularly on bodies of water.
In this episode, we’ll talk about the plastic food packaging in Southeast Asia and why it’s a common marketing strategy for companies to produce them in sachets with Beau Baconguis, Regional Plastic Campaigner for GAIA!
Tune in as you learn more about the plastic pollution in Southeast Asia and what you can do to help become a part of the solution.
In this Episode, We Discuss:
- The difference between the food packaging in Southeast Asia vs
- Company brand audits
- Why small single-use packaging is common in Southeast Asia
- Zero-waste strategies and alternative packagin materials
Get to know Beau:
Beau works as regional plastic campaigner for GAIA, a worldwide alliance of more than 800 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 90 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration.
She is also an environmental activist, an earth builder, and permaculturist. She completed her degree in Biology from the Ateneo de Davao University in Davao City. With two decades of environmental advocacy experience behind her, she used to work as a researcher with communities and peoples’ organizations from different parts of the Philippines dealing with a variety of environmental issues including logging, illegal fishing, development aggression, quarrying and the like.
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Today’s episode will center around the plastic pollution in Southeast Asia.
If you travel to Southeast Asia, you’ll notice how food packaging differs from what we are used to here in the global north. This small plastic packaging called “sachet” is now causing major harm to our environment particularly on bodies of water.
In this episode, we’ll talk about the plastic food packaging in Southeast Asia and why it’s a common marketing strategy for companies to produce them in sachets with Beau Baconguis, Regional Plastic Campaigner for GAIA!
Tune in as you learn more about the plastic pollution in Southeast Asia and what you can do to help become a part of the solution.
In this Episode, We Discuss:
- The difference between the food packaging in Southeast Asia vs
- Company brand audits
- Why small single-use packaging is common in Southeast Asia
- Zero-waste strategies and alternative packagin materials
Get to know Beau:
Beau works as regional plastic campaigner for GAIA, a worldwide alliance of more than 800 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 90 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration.
She is also an environmental activist, an earth builder, and permaculturist. She completed her degree in Biology from the Ateneo de Davao University in Davao City. With two decades of environmental advocacy experience behind her, she used to work as a researcher with communities and peoples’ organizations from different parts of the Philippines dealing with a variety of environmental issues including logging, illegal fishing, development aggression, quarrying and the like.
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10: Getting deep with environmental & surf filmmaker Cyrus Sutton
Today’s episode, Cyrus Sutton takes us back on the Hawaiian grounds and into surf filmmaking as we go deep into his life and work.
Cyrus is an environmental and pro surf filmmaker. He is also the director of the award-winning surf film Riding Waves in 2003 and the filmmaker behind the documentary Island Earth. and he’s going to share his experience making the film as well as his learnings from documentary films like Ice on Fire and the indigenous culture of Hawaii!
We touch a lot of topics on this episode, particularly about environmental films and surfing. And I can say that he is truly an artist! The way he describes and conveys as well as his adventures and explorations, makes you appreciate how beautiful life is!
If you’ve watched the documentary film Island Earth then you will surely enjoy this episode!
In this Episode, We Discuss:
- What is the documentary Island Earth all about?
- Cyrus experience on making the documentary Island Earth
- Learnings from the documentary film Ice on Fire
- How do we educate ourselves in order to contribute something good for the planet
- How Cyrus came across the indigenous culture in Hawaii
- Engaging and learning from different cultures in a way that honors and supports the people in it
- Cyrus’ thoughts in GMOs and his experience learning about it
- Being a surfer and having a relationship with the ocean
- Patterns for survival
- How Cyrus got into film making
- Living a purpose-driven life
- How the world is a mirror of what we’re showing from our life
- The freedom paradigm
Get to know Cyrus Sutton
Cyrus Sutton is an Emmy-winning filmmaker based near Portland, Oregon. He won an Emmy for his writing and cinematography on Next Wave at the age of 23.
He currently serves as a director of media at Guayaki Yerba Mate and continues to pursue his documentary filmmaking career.
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Mentioned from this Episode:
- Island Earth
- Riding Waves
- The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
- Ice on Fire
- Cliff Kapono
- Manda Naturals
- Guayaki
- Over Grow The System
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12: Firecracker Founder of Plastic Soup Foundation [Maria Westerbos] Tells it like it is
Join me today as we talk about the topics discussed from UWRAPPED with Maria Westerbos. Unwrapped is a conference that brings together world-renowned scientists to increase global recognition of the known human health risks of plastics while promoting a culture shift to safer alternatives!
Maria is an expert in the communications world, founder and director of Plastic Soup Foundation, an organization that aims to stop plastic waste from spreading and polluting the seas. In this episode, we cover the health risks of plastics and food packaging chemicals to human health and many more!
In this Episode, We Discuss:
- What is Plastic Soup Foundation and what they do
- How do we help consumers know what is greenwashing and what is not
- The negative side effects of chemicals (from food packaging) on human health
Get to know Maria:
Maria Westerbos is the founder and director of Plastic Soup Foundation, an organization with the mission of: ‘No plastic waste in our water!’. When she founded the Plastic Soup Foundation, she started creating awareness regarding major environmental problems all over Holland, Europe and the rest of the world
Because of the work that she’s doing, she ranked number 18 in De Dikke Blauwe: a list of the 100 most influential people in “The Land of Do Well”
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