How Sustainable Minimalists Entertain

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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How to Host a (No Plastic) Party Like to entertain but hate the overwhelm? Join the club. While it feels so right to open your home to your loved ones for dinner parties, barbecues, and holidays, being chained to the kitchen (and the dirty dishes!) feels oh, so wrong. The alternative is equally cringe-worthy: Heaps of plastic plates, cups, and cutlery in the trash? No thanks. This week, I speak with Repurpose founder Lauren Gropper. Lauren believes hosts and... Read More Read More The post How to Host a (No Plastic) Party appeared first on Sustainable Minimalists. Our Sponsors:* Thank you to LifeStraw! https://lifestraw.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sustainable-minimalists/exclusive-content

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0:00.0	Well, hello there and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you are listening to episode
0:05.2	189 of the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast. On today's show, we are discussing all things eco-friendly entertaining.
0:14.8	How can we host a holiday?
0:16.5	How can we host a 4th of July barbecue?
0:19.0	Without the overwhelm that often leads to cutting the corners that tend to put the planet last.
0:27.5	Today I am speaking with Lauren Groper, the founder and CEO of Repur and if you've never heard of Repurpose.
0:32.8	And if you've never heard of Repurpose before,
0:35.0	where have you been?
0:36.8	Repurpose makes plant-based compostable tableware
0:41.1	that takes our eco-friendly fetets, our eco-friendly gatherings, our
0:46.2	eco-friendly dinner parties to the next level. On today's show, Lauren and I
0:50.5	are discussing how on earth we can entertain without overwhelm and without sacrificing the planet.
0:58.0	Lauren, I'm so excited to talk to you today. How are you?
1:02.0	I'm good. Thanks so much for having me. I'm Lauren Groper. I'm the
1:05.6	founder and CEO of Repurpose. We make plant-based compostable alternatives to
1:11.2	single-use plastic and the items that we focus on compostable alternatives to single use plastic.
1:13.1	And the items that we focus on
1:15.2	are really kind of these everyday items
1:17.1	that you use at home.
1:18.6	So plates, cups, cutlery, you know, bowls.
1:24.4	We're getting into a bunch of new products
1:26.2	like zip locks that are home compostable
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