Hello everyone. Hi happy happy. Happy Friday it's Jen Sullivan here. Welcome to Fat Mascara. So today's guest is here to talk about an important topic, how we can mitigate the beauty industry's impact on the environment.

I promise this is not going to be a lecture. We all already know that packaged goods and the packages that

beauty products come in are a big part of the pollution problem and huge

contributors to climate change, but there are things we can do to make a change and wow I just said that sentence and yes I hear how

cliche it sounds but it is true there are people in the beauty industry who are working to make

improvements one of them is Carly Snyder so that that's our guests today. She's the executive director of Pact Collective and she'll explain what that is.

So her background is she has an undergraduate degree in environmental studies and geography and she has a master's of the environment policy and management.

Before joining PAC, she worked for the B-Lab. That's the nonprofit that certifies companies as B-Cores.

And after that, she was a consultant in the beauty industry helping companies to

balance profit with purpose and potentially become bicores themselves.

So we are going to focus our chat on how we as consumers can be more critical shoppers

in the beauty industry but also what the companies can do.

How they can improve their packaging.

I know some of you who are listening work in the beauty industry.

And Carly has some tips for you, not just for us as shoppers. I am personally so interested in this

topic but I have to admit it's a big one. There's a lot to learn so you're going

to have to excuse some of my ignorance in this area as I talked to Carly, but I figured if I wanted to learn,

you might want to learn too so we can do it all together. With that, let's welcome Carly to the virtual studio. I'm going to

Okay, Carly Snyder, welcome to Fat Mascara.

Hi.

Thank you.

Such a pleasure to be here.

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