The One Where We Discuss Going Zero Waste with Tara McKenna from Zero Waste Collective
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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This week we sit down with @Mindfully.Tara of @zero.waste.collective, for an inspiring and approachable conversation around pollution, waste and how we can make daily efforts in our own homes and communities to make a difference for our planet.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.7 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:13.1 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:20.5 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, |
| 0:23.2 | get real, because we are all in this digital space together. All right, welcome back. I am super |
| 0:34.5 | stoked to be talking to this next guest. She's actually a friend of mine. She is local to my hometown, but she is also the creator of the Zero Waste Collective on Instagram, Mindfully Tara. |
| 0:47.0 | Hi, how you doing? Just learned it's not Tara. It's Tara. Tara, because she has British parents. And then I realized that nobody ever calls me Sarah. |
| 0:55.5 | That's too bad, but I can call you Sarah. I mean, it sounds kind of cool. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:59.6 | We met a while ago, you're such a community builder and you did this community lunch. And it was crazy for me because that was the first time in my hometown, which I don't know how many people even live here? Like 150,000? Yeah. |
| 1:12.0 | There's not a lot of us. And so there's not a lot of people in influencer space or Instagram |
| 1:15.8 | space or like that social media stuff. So it meant a lot to me when you kind of like gathered |
| 1:21.2 | us all together. And we all kind of had these different walks of life. And it was really cool to |
| 1:25.8 | connect. I ended up one of the girls from that luncheon |
| 1:27.9 | became my first podcast editor. There was a lot of really cool connections out of that. So after that, |
| 1:34.8 | I think we kind of started following each other and like really diving into each other's content. |
| 1:39.2 | And I've been just so interested, I think is the word, so interested, so captivated by what you do and what |
| 1:46.8 | you're putting out there. So tell us how you kind of got into this whole idea of zero waste, |
| 1:53.2 | what prompted it for you, what keeps you going. And now you have this like booming audience of nearly |
| 1:59.4 | like over half a million collectively that are following |
| 2:02.6 | this zero waste thing. So you're doing something real right. But tell us how you got there. |
| 2:07.0 | Wow. I, you know, thank you so much for that introduction. I kind of forget how big it's grown. |
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