The Pandemic Versus The Planet

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

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🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Why is it that, in times of fear, society reverts back to relying on single-use disposables? COVID-19 will have lasting effects on the environmental movement. While some of such effects—like embracing forced slowness, for example—took cars off the road and reduced worldwide carbon emissions in the short-term, our propensity toward fear-based buying over the past year has littered the planet. Indeed, communities that fought long and hard to ban single-use items embraced them during the pandemic; there’s the plastics problem,... Read More Read More The post The Pandemic Versus The Planet 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
0:05.9	episode 188 of the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast. On today's show we are discussing the lasting impact of COVID-19 on the
0:17.6	anti- Single- Use movement. Now citing sanitation but without citing any research to support their claims, many communities
0:28.6	that have perhaps fought long and hard to ban plastic bags and styrofoam and plastic water bottles have
0:36.2	embraced them again. Why is it in times of fear do we we resort to single use plastic?
0:44.8	And how can we change this mindset going forward?
0:48.4	I'm asking these questions to my guests today.
0:52.2	Today I'm speaking with Miles Pepper and Martika Wakeman, the co-founders of
0:57.3	Sanicind, which is a solution to the plastic hand sanitizer bottle problem.
1:04.0	Sanicind is a refillable sanitizer dispenser made from recycled plastic
1:10.0	and Miles and Martica started this company during the pandemic as a way to mitigate
1:15.1	pandemic related overuse of plastic. Well I'm really looking forward to
1:22.1	diving deep into the lasting implications COVID-19 has had on this
1:28.0	anti- Single-use movement because I know in my personal life I see an awful lot of single use waste.
1:37.0	I'm thinking masks. I'm thinking plastic bags. I'm thinking sanitizer bottles. I could go on and on. And so I'm looking forward to picking
1:47.8	both of your brain, so to speak. But before we do any of that, tell my listeners who you are and what you do. Yeah, hi, thanks for having
1:55.8	its on Stephanie. So my name is Miles. I'm sitting here with Martika. We are the co-founders of
2:00.2	Santa Kind. A little background on me is about three years ago I started a company called
2:06.8	Final Straw which was a solution for single-use plastic straws. It was the first collapsible reusable drinking straw.
2:14.1	And that sort of launched me into the world of
2:16.8	startups and sustainability and having the real focus to help people replace single use items in their lives with a product that is incredibly convenient and better than the single use plastic alternatives.
2:31.0	Yeah, and my background is more academic focused. I've worked with
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