Zero Waste: It Ain't About Recycling (REBROADCAST)
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this episode about my zero waste journey, I share the principles that have absolutely changed my thinking and way of living.
Zero Waste is not simply about my making YouTube videos about how to make zero-waste almond milk (although I do that!), it's a way of thinking that profoundly changes our approach to resources and production, going beyond "waste diversion" and striving to ensure that products are designed to be repaired, refurbished, and reused, creating a circular economy rather than a linear economy of make, use, dispose.
And it's definitely not about recycling. Recycling IS waste. Have I blown your mind yet?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought Podcast. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudreau. I just wanted to share with you a |
| 0:05.5 | podcast from the archives while I work on some new episodes. I thought this one was |
| 0:10.7 | timely considering the fact that the multi-billion dollar plastics industry This one |
| 0:15.0 | billion-dollar plastics industry recently asked Congress for a $1 billion |
| 0:18.0 | dollar coronavirus bailout at this time |
| 0:22.0 | an investigation from NPR and Frontline this month found the |
| 0:25.9 | industry the plastics industry including oil and gas companies intent on |
| 0:30.5 | seeing more plastic produced pushed recycling on the American public despite knowing the process |
| 0:37.1 | was not effective in order to sell more plastic products. |
| 0:41.1 | And so this episode on plastics and recycling seemed like a good one to rebroadcast. What do you think? |
| 0:47.0 | I'm working every day on some new episodes and have some really exciting ones coming up. I'm just trying to juggle a few more things |
| 0:54.4 | than normal. I'm working on some very time sensitive, very exciting and crucial |
| 0:58.3 | local wildlife projects that have |
| 1:05.0 | a huge impact on urban wildlife here in the San Francisco Bay Area |
| 1:10.0 | and I'll share more as soon as I can. |
| 1:12.0 | What's more, the weekly virtual cooking |
| 1:13.8 | classes I've been teaching have been so wonderful and popular but have also |
| 1:18.3 | taken up a huge amount of my time and bandwidth so while I look to get some |
| 1:22.2 | extra support to manage them, and I am looking to |
| 1:24.5 | hire someone just a couple hours a week to help me manage them, if you're interested, reach |
| 1:28.7 | out to me, we have a job listing, ready to go, it's just been a lot to juggle. I call this abundance |
| 1:35.3 | management and on that note the classes coming up in the next couple weeks |
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