148) Envisioning that future when disposable packaging will become obsolete with Tamara Lim
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Tamara Lim is the founder and CEO of The Wally Shop, America's first zero-waste grocery delivery service that sources from local farmers, markets, and bulk shops.
On this podcast episode, Tamara sheds light on how our current consumption model and waste management methods are setting us up for failure when we're striving to address our waste issues; what structural and systemic shifts we need in order to render disposable packaging obsolete; and more.
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| 0:53.9 | What we're working on is this broader reusable infrastructure. |
| 0:58.0 | And this can really scale to anything that comes in disposable packaging. |
| 1:03.0 | So anything that comes in disposable packaging will have a reusable option in the future. |
| 1:08.0 | And we're building that reusable infrastructure to drive that, to accelerate |
| 1:11.8 | the world's transition to that future. |
| 1:15.6 | How do our current consumption system and ways of waste management and recycling methods |
| 1:20.5 | basically set us up for failure when we're wanting to address our waste issues? |
| 1:26.2 | What sorts of structural or systemic shifts do we need in society |
| 1:29.8 | to render disposable packaging obsolete? That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear |
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| 2:07.1 | For now to our conversation with Tamara Lim, the founder of the Wally Shop, |
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