007: There's BPA in My What? Jay Sinha Talks Plastics and Running an Earth Conscious Business
A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast
Marjorie Alexander
4.6 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Jay Sinha has a unique background in biochemistry, law, ecotoxicology and environmental research. In this interview, he reveals a lot about the true nature of what is in the products we use on a day-to-day basis and then gives us an amazing resource list to do some research on our own. Get a pen and paper kids, you're going to need it for this interview!
Most versatile item for a plastic-free life:
- The mason jar – it can become a water bottle, is good for storing bulk food items, makes great freezer and leftover storage and even a lunch container
Long-standing habit that's contributed to personal and business success:
- Eating well – it provides clarity of mind, increased energy, decreasing stress, better sleep and promotes healthy living overall
A cool new toy he just ordered in the mail:
- A Pela iPhone case made out of bioplastic from plant fibers
LOTS of resources!
- Klean Kanteen (company)
- Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things
- Trash is for Tossers (blog)
- Toxin Toxout: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World
- Weck canning jars & accessories
- Programmed to be Fat (part of the The Nature of Things series)
Parting piece of guidance:
Don't be overwhelmed, start by simply getting out into nature. Get a sense of its importance and that will inspire you to make changes in your life
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| 0:00.0 | A Sustainable Mind, Episode 7. |
| 0:05.0 | This is A Sustainable Mind podcast, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental changemakers of tomorrow. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm your host, Marjor Alexander. |
| 0:23.1 | Today, I am very happy to welcome to the show, Jay Sinha. Jay is co-owner of Life Without Plastics, |
| 0:30.8 | which he founded with his wife, Chantal. With a background in biochemistry, |
| 0:35.9 | eco-toxicology, and law, he is the go-to-to-go-go-guy when it comes to plastics. |
| 0:40.8 | Welcome to the show, Jay. |
| 0:42.2 | Thank you, Marjorie. Glad to be here. |
| 0:44.3 | So the name of your company, Life Without Plastic, is pretty self-explanatory. |
| 0:49.8 | But often people are overwhelmed by terms like zero waste or plastic free because when they think about it in terms of their own lifestyle, they actually get really overwhelmed with what that would mean for them if they lived by those terms. |
| 1:05.2 | And they might say to themselves, well, I could never live like that. That's way too extreme for me. |
| 1:09.8 | But what they don't consider are |
| 1:11.8 | all of the steps and all of the choices that go into leading a lifestyle, such as one without plastic. |
| 1:18.7 | So I want you to take a couple of minutes and give us a brief overview of how sustainability played a part in your life growing up. |
| 1:25.2 | And then since then, your journey and how you finally did get to |
| 1:28.8 | a life without plastic. Sure. Yeah. Well, I grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and I'm the son of a mother |
| 1:40.4 | who grew up on a farm just outside Winnipeg and a father who was born in India and was a |
| 1:48.7 | research scientist and worked for the Canadian government. And so I had a relatively, I guess, |
| 1:55.9 | what would you call it? I mean, I guess you could say sort of mainstream normal upbringing. |
| 2:03.0 | My parents were very open-minded and they were environmentally conscious at a time when it was less of an issue of the environment as a whole. |
| 2:14.5 | But I would not have described them as tree huggers, that's for sure. Not in the way that |
| 2:20.3 | we, I guess, view tree huggers today, of which I would count myself now. But there was an |
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