How Businesses Should Show Up on Earth Day— Without Greenwashing

Help Wanted

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Self-improvement, Education, Business

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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If you want your company or employer to do more than just post a photo of the planet for Earth Day, Jason and Nicole have you covered. Today, they sit down with Tricia Carey, the Chief Commercial Officer of Renewcell, an award-winning textile-to-textile recycling company. In their conversation, Tricia shares insight into what meaningful actions companies can take to be more sustainable, whether carbon offsets actually work, and one specific thing everyone can do today to help the planet. To learn more about Tricia, her work at Renewcell and beyond, follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-l-carey/

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0:00.0	This is Help Wanted, the show that makes your work work for you. I'm Jason Pfizer,
0:12.2	editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine.
0:14.0	And I'm money expert Nicole Lappin. On Tuesdays, Jason and I answer the helpline and help
0:18.6	callers solve their work problems. And on Thursdays, I give you one way to improve your work and build a career or company you love.
0:26.0	And it starts? No.
0:28.0	Tricia Carey, welcome to Help Wanton.
0:30.0	Thank you, Nicole. Great to be here today. So you are the
0:33.7	are the chief commercial officer for Renusel.
0:36.5	It is the darling of the circular fashion world.
0:39.5	Can you tell our listeners a little bit more about your background
0:42.4	and what circular fashion is and how
0:45.0	Renustile comes into that.
0:46.9	So my mission in the work that I've been doing is to drive innovation and responsible
0:52.0	fiber development for textiles and apparel.
0:55.0	And my career has been more than 25 years, working in the global textile business development and marketing area.
1:02.0	But over the past 10 years, I've been working on developments that are specific for circular fashion.
1:08.0	And that's where we're reusing materials in order to give them a new life.
1:12.0	Because it's really, it's surprising when you think about it. materials in order to give them a new life.
1:12.6	Because it's really, it's surprising when you think about it
1:15.1	that it's actually less than 1% of all textiles
1:18.9	are recycled into new textiles.
1:21.3	And that leads me into what Renew Cell is. And Renew Cell is a textile
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