243: We eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a week | Jesse Daystar, Ph.D., Chief Sustainability Officer, Cotton Inc.

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🗓️ 16 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Jesse Daystar, Ph.D.: “From beer, water, and salt alone, we eat 5,800 pieces of plastic a year in the U.S.” Daystar, the Chief Sustainability Officer of Cotton Inc., joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to follow more sustainable clothing practices and the future of fabric, plus: *How changing your laundry habits can better the environment* *How to measure your water footprint* *How cellulose fiber contributes to the circular economy* *The key to decoding your clothing labels* *How to reduce the amount of plastic on your plate* Enjoy this episode sponsored by Cotton! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. To learn more about how much plastic we ingest every week, check out the 2019 study commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
0:08.9	Sustainability is a hugely important topic to us here at My Buddy Green and today we have one of the best
0:16.2	and the brightest when it comes to sustainable materials.
0:19.7	Dr. Jesse Daystar is the chief sustainability officer at Cotton Inc.
0:25.0	We engages with all levels of the supply chain from farm to fashion
0:29.1	to helping create systemic change towards more sustainable production systems through science-based research.
0:36.3	Prior, he was the assistant director of the Center for Sustainability and Commerce at Duke University,
0:42.3	where he directed Sustain for apparel, energy,
0:45.8	byproducts, and other industry sectors.
0:48.0	He earned two Bachelor of Science degrees
0:50.7	in Chemical Engineering and Pulp and Paper Engineering, a master of science degree and a PhD in Forest Biomaterials at North Carolina State, and he's also an adjunct professor at Duke University Nicholas School of the
1:05.2	Environment. We are so thrilled to have Jesse on today's Sustainable Sunday's
1:10.0	Bonus episode to discuss how to follow more sustainable clothing practices and the
1:15.8	future of fabric.
1:17.6	Jesse, welcome, so great to have you here.
1:20.6	It's a pleasure to be here today and to talk about my
1:23.1	favorite subject, sustainability. I love it. It is a favorite subject of
1:27.0	hours here at My UnBody Green. It is a passion point for me personally so many of our listeners and what's so cool
1:36.1	so in the context of where we are in the world with with COVID I think there are a lot of
1:41.9	people out there who are you know thinking about what's next are they either in the in the right career are they looking to make a transition
1:50.1	Maybe they make a career out of a passion point like sustainability and what's so cool about you is you have that career your title is literally
2:00.3	Chief Sustainability Officer.
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