Love Zero Waste

Love Zero Waste

We're obsessed with zero waste solutions! Hosts Malin Leth and Evelina Lundqvist 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. We aim to inspire and educate business to take responsibility, close the loop and help change the fact that two-thirds of all raw materials put into the global economy every year end up as waste. Listen to the podcast, and connect with our community of like-minded zero waste and circular economy aficionados. And if you're looking for support on your organisation's zero waste business development journey. We're here to help! We've got your back! Welcome to the zero waste revolution!

Episodes

How to price a supermarket refill station (with Cameron Cooper)

December 31, 2021 • 18 mins
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 de...
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Biodegradable bioplastic — disrupting the fashion industry (with Mecca McDonald and Mia Dunn)

November 11, 2021 • 17 mins
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 Ge...
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Three things I've learned: Innovating new coffee materials (with Aaron Feigelman)

September 30, 2021 • 18 mins
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 ro...
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Three things I've learned: Designing a zero waste kitchen (with Ivana Steiner)

August 23, 2021 • 17 mins
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 t...
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Introduction to zero waste business development

August 11, 2021 • 7 mins
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 obse...
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Season 3 wrap-up with Evelina and Malin

February 28, 2021 • 21 mins
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 ...
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Cities and regions approaching zero waste (with Andrew Marr & Joâo Bernardo Casali)

January 11, 2021 • 36 mins
More and more cities and regions across the planet choose to go for zero waste. In this episode, you'll learn more about the challenges and solutions of two of those places: Vancouver, Canada and the Noronha, Brazil. Guests are Andrew Marr of Metro Vancouver and Joâo Bernardo Casali (@jbcasali) of Ionica (@ionicalab). Andrew Marr, Metro Vancouver gives us a better picture of the types of challenges that generally pop-up on a cit...
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Standup paddle board scientists fighting micro plastics (with Christian Shaw)

December 4, 2020 • 38 mins
We've been talking a lot about ocean plastic pollution and microplastics on show. This is such a fundamentally important topic to understand on the path towards a zero waste future! We'll continue to investigate this topic in this episode, but from a slightly different perspective. In this episode, we're talking to Christian Shaw, co-founder and executive director of the US-based NGO, Plastic Tides. This episode is all about acti...
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Zero waste trends in Europe (12 experts interviewed)

November 10, 2020 • 67 mins
This is a special episode of Love Zero Waste. In collaboration with Zero Waste Europe, the number-one expert organisation on all matters zero waste in Europe, throughout October, we’ve been scanning the continent’s zero waste trends focusing on four areas: (1) reuse, (2) zero waste shopping, (3) quitting single-use plastics and (4) the impact of plastics on our health. This episode is the summary, the ultimate highlight compilati...
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Live: Tidy spaces, tiny habits and minimalism - a new zero waste life ahead (with Eva Gruber)

October 21, 2020 • 23 mins
Guest in this Instagram Live recording of Love Zero Waste is Eva Gruber, Habit Coach for Makers and Multi Potentials. Moreover, Eva is a certified Kon Mari and Tiny Habits consultant. Learn more about Eva’s journey towards a zero waste lifestyle, as well as her work coaching clients to shift their habits away from overconsumption and clutter towards healthy habits and tidy and energising spaces. This episode is packed with tips o...
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Consumer confusion adding to the waste pile (with Naomi Scott-Mearns & Seema Shandil)

September 13, 2020 • 33 mins
Claims, labels, logos and symbols… Check your pantry, in the grocery store, the stuff you buy online. You might go as far as saying that all across the board, products are covered with symbols claiming eco-friendliness, solar power usage, recyclability, plastic content reduced, bioplastics, circularity, saving soil, saving water, no by-catch, compostable, biodegradable… something with green arrows… But what do they all mean, and de...
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Live: Designing microplastics water filters inspired by manta rays (with Sjors van der Meer)

August 11, 2020 • 24 mins
The microplastic pollution in our oceans is a growing problem since the participles are invisible to the naked eye, and even more so, because it’s everywhere, and there’s no way of knowing how their occurrence may threaten life on earth in the long run. Our guest Sjors van der Meer, designer and co-founder of the Floating Coconet started out with an ambition of using biomimicry design elements to rid rivers of plastics before it a...
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Frugal innovation meets hygiene (with Adams Bamigbose & Shawn Seipler)

July 24, 2020 • 22 mins
As COVID-19 and other viruses taunt communities across the globe, entrepreneurs rise to create solutions to protect people but also the planet. A shocking forty per cent of the world’s population does not have access to basic handwashing possibilities, something that adds to the spread of diseases. We’ve spoken to two entrepreneurs who are combining zero waste and frugal innovation, also known as inclusive innovation or grassroots ...
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Biomimicry - solutions sparked by nature (with Rebecca Carlson)

July 14, 2020 • 28 mins
What does velcro and the Namib desert beetle have in common? They’re both champions in the field of biomimicry. And what does biomimicry have to do with zero waste? Everything! On the show we’re often talking about designing out waste - but with biomimicry, we’re taking things even further. In nature, waste doesn’t exist, only closed loops, and that’s what designers, engineers and others are trying to mimic and put to good use. Li...
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From fire to loops (with Claire Arkin & Rossano Ercolini)

June 23, 2020 • 27 mins
Is incineration, burning waste, a good idea? Answer: No. In this episode of Love Zero Waste we’ll explore how incineration is hindering the closing of the loops and the transition towards a circular economy, and what the more sustainable alternatives are (spoiler alert: designing out waste!). Learn how the now world-famous town in Italy, Capannori chose another path than incineration and developed a locally adapted waste management...
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Live: Let's end food waste! Vol 2 (with Helén Williams & Estefania Coral Andrade)

June 16, 2020 • 30 mins
From farm to fork, nearly one-third of produce and cooked food is being thrown away. And the culprits are to be found everywhere: among manufacturers and producers, throughout logistics, in stores and restaurants, and among consumers, such as you and I. This fairly recent development amounts to a staggering waste of use of land, water, energy and calories. Love Zero Waste is dedicating an episode of the podcast to ending food was...
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Live: The zero waste game (with Monika Martinsson)

June 11, 2020 • 27 mins
Games and gamification is big business. Games, gamification and sustainable development, not so much. Not yet, anyway. But considering the sheer amount of us that play games on our smartphones, and the gaming market in total, this field could face a lot of development in the coming years. In this episode, we’re exploring how games and gamification can help us take action for a better future. And you’ll find some zero waste in ther...
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Live: Let’s end food waste! Vol 1 (with Ebbe Korsgaard, Estefania Coral Andrade & Anders Burman)

June 8, 2020 • 30 mins
From farm to fork, nearly one-third of produce and cooked food is being thrown away. And the culprits are to be found everywhere: among manufacturers and producers, throughout logistics, in stores and restaurants, and among consumers, such as you and I. This fairly recent development amounts to a staggering waste of use of land, water, energy and calories. As a part of this year’s digital edition of the EatArt festival, Love Zer...
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The global e-waste challenge (with Ify Otuya & Chloé Mikolajczak)

May 6, 2020 • 33 mins
What is electronic waste? Why does 80% end up in landfills or go unaccounted for? And what can we do to prevent electronics - broken down smartphones, computers and tractors - turning into unsalvageable trash across the planet. Actually there’s a lot we can do! Yeeyy!! We’re back with a third season of Love Zero Waste! Guests in this episode are e-waste experts Ify Otuya, June E-waste Academy and Chloé Mikolajczak, Right to Repair...
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Live: How to help build back a better future (with Amanda Janoo)

April 27, 2020 • 26 mins
Nudged by Earth Day Week and the COVID-19 crisis, which is revealing the cracks in our take-make-waste society like nothing we’ve ever seen before, we’re going to dive into how we, you and I, can help build a sustainable future together. Guest is Amanda Janoo, knowledge and policy lead over at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. Amanda is an economic policy expert working with governments and organisations around the globe. In this ...
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