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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

59) How chemicals leach out of plastics to impact our health with Life Without Plastic's Chantal Plamondon

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

How can we use the analogy of pasta and pasta sauce to better understand plastics and their health impacts? Why is it that we urgently need more research and development to find alternatives to plastic, especially for food packaging?

 

Chantal Plamondon, Co-Founder and CEO of Life Without Plastic, a pioneering one-stop-shop for all things non-plastic, shares her wisdom with us.

 

HIGHLIGHTS:

[8:14] Chantal: "It started when I was just addressing my need, but I knew there were probably other parents who had the same need."

[9:55] Chantal on the health impacts of plastics.

[10:46] A few factors that increase the chances chemicals will leach from plastics.

[15:54] What keeps Chantal going, even when she experiences discouraging moments.

[17:31] Kaméa: "You do so many things for your business! How do you stay organized to get everything done?"

[21:09] Chantal discusses her book, Life Without Plastic.

 

Thanks for bringing your light! Find the full show notes with links and resources at www.greendreamer.com, and share your #1 takeaway from the episode tagging our featured guest and me @KameaChayne to spread the light and to let us know you're tuning in!

Transcript

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0:00.0

I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent

0:07.9

podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those

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considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question.

0:22.3

So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out.

0:26.8

We need your direct support in order to continue this podcast.

0:30.7

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0:37.3

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0:40.4

donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so

0:47.6

grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us?

0:54.4

A lot of people think that plastic is inert or that if it leaches, it is in such small quantities

1:01.2

that it won't affect their health.

1:06.5

How can we use the analogy of pasta and pasta sauce to better understand plastics and their health impacts?

1:14.0

Why is it that we urgently need more research and development to find alternatives to plastic,

1:20.2

especially for food packaging? That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today.

1:25.5

If you're not already following me on Instagram,

1:34.1

you can find me there at Kamea at Shane. That's K-A-M-E-A-C-H-A-Y-N-E. I'll be sharing more of my ongoing learning lessons, inspirations in wellness and sustainability, and reminders for you to re-center

1:40.1

and stay grounded, because we need you to be in your best health to support this movement.

1:45.5

I look forward to connecting there. And now to our episode, let's dive in.

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Hey, it's Kamea Shane and this is Green Dreamer, a podcast for creatives, visionaries, and

1:58.1

entrepreneurs dreaming of a sustainable future.

2:02.4

Thank you for bringing your light.

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