Behind the Green: Recent Episodes
Chantal Emmanuel
“Just buying from micro businesses and artisans, I think there is a unique environmental story in sustainability in that people know how to repair things. If people are learning skills and crafts and honing them and getting better, that improves our collective capacity to keep things out of landfills...The personal connection that people experience from buying art and crafts makes the world a little better. That personal connection you feel from touching someone’s art makes it one of your prized possessions."
About Valerie Schafer Franklin
Valerie Schafer Franklin is on the Board of Directors for Artisans Cooperative. She has over 20 years professional experience as a non-profit director, event planner, project manager for multi-million dollar renewable energy projects, and most importantly, 14 years running an artisan business as one-half of the husband-and-wife leathercrafting business, Walnut Studiolo. She is also a freelance writer.
About Artisans Cooperative
Artisans Cooperative is crafting a “better” online handmade marketplace, run as a values-aligned, member-owned cooperative. We began with a vision for a better alternative following the #EtsyStrike, which took place in April 2022. By October 2022, we had formed a community on Discord, created an informational website on Wordpress, and announced our plans to the world to build a member-owned handmade marketplace. Artisans Cooperative is dedicated to quality over quantity and promotes creativity, supports artist livelihoods, creates opportunities for social impact art collectives, and connects people through an equitable artistic community.
Find Artisans Cooperative online at:
WEBSITE: Artisans Cooperative
INSTAGRAM: @coopartisans
LINKEDIN: Artisans Cooperative
LINKEDIN: Valerie Schafer Franklin
Find Walnut Studiolo online at:
WEBSITE: Walnut Studiolo
INSTAGRAM: @walnutstudiolo
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from warehouses or DCs to and from retail stores.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
“Different brands are in different parts of their journey. For a lot of brands, resale makes a ton of sense because there’s a ton of waste. And the brands that are further along in their sustainability journey are tapping into their waste to continue to build these new closets through repair and resale. However, there’s still a lot of work to be done. How do you match action to the goals? And what can really be achieved which is where technology gets really interesting."
About Peter Whitcomb
Peter Whitcomb is the CEO of Tersus Solutions. Peter spent the 5 years prior to joining Tersus Solutions building circular business models across the retail sector, serving as Vice President of Growth and Partnerships at Trove, a white label resale software solutions provider for premium brands and retailers, including REI, Lululemon, Nordstrom, and Patagonia. Prior to Trove, he spent some years with REI, Amazon and held a variety of roles on Wall Street with both Citibank and AllianceBernstein, eventually helping build AllianceBernstein’s Hedge Fund and Private Equity Fund businesses. Peter is an outdoor enthusiast and loves spending time with his family more than anything.
About Tersus Solutions
Tersus Solutions was founded in 2009 in Denver, CO to help close the loop on textile circularity. While they didn't start that way, they are now leaders in this space. They utilize their own developed machines and have created processes that are advanced and effective to keep textiles in use as resale and/or through repair. Through Tersus Solutions processes, we can drastically reduce the textile industry’s environmental impact by utilizing a closed-loop cleaning system that preserves water and electricity, captures microfibers, and ultimately extends the life of textiles. Over the course of the last 11 years, Tersus Solutions has been at the forefront of innovation in the use of LCO2 and ultimately keeping textiles out of landfills or being incinerated.
Find Tersus Solutions online at:
WEBSITE: Tersus Solutions
TWITTER: @TERSUSSolutions
LINKEDIN: Tersus Solutions
LINKEDIN: Peter Whitcomb
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from warehouses or DCs to and from retail stores.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
“We have all been wishcyclers where we’ve seen the nice recycle logo on a package and say ‘Alright I think it’s recyclable. I don’t see the number on it but I’ll throw it in the recycle bin and hopefully it goes somewhere.’ Unfortunately, a lot of the times just because it has the recyclable logo doesn’t even mean that it will eventually be recycled…being able to inform and educate and empower the consumers to make those better choices ends up being a win for everybody.”
About John Paap
John is the Brand & Sustainability Manager at Jac Vandenberg and has has been in the fresh produce industry for over 15 years. He has also worked in the area of sustainability for over 10 years. During this time, John has led Jac Vandenberg in their sustainability initiatives earning multiple awards for product innovation along the way. He is also currently the co-chair of the Sustainable Packaging Working Group at the International Fresh Produce Association, member of the Environmental Sustainability Working Group at GlobalG.A.P., speaks on the subject of sustainability in the fresh produce industry at various forums, is a contributing writer for VISION Magazine and co-host of The History of Fresh Produce podcast series on The Produce Industry Podcast.
About Jac Vandenberg
Family, fresh, innovation — this trio ensures we always deliver the freshest produce, responsibly grown and sourced, from farm to store. Jac. Vandenberg is a 4th generation family-owned and operated fresh fruit importer and marketer that is turning the industry on its head by transforming fresh produce into a delicious, nutritious snack that delivers enormous social and environmental impact.Jac Vandenber is also the home of the Snack with Impact®.SUNRAYS® is one of the most sustainable, life transforming, zero waste grape and mandarin brand in the world. And they received the U.S. Plastics Pact Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award this year for their compostable produce packaging. Learn more here.
Find Jac Vandenberg online at:
WEBSITE: Jac Vandenberg
LINKEDIN: Jac Vandenberg
LINKEDIN: John Paap
Find Sunrays online at:
WEBSITE: Sunrays
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from warehouses or DCs to and from retail stores.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
“By slowing down this fast carbon, we are giving our society some time—buying us some time to ween ourselves off of our fossil fuels…the ways that our every day lives would change, if we can’t start doing this at scale, could be truly detrimental for our future.”
About Elizabeth Bridges
Elizabeth is a co-founder of the OurCarbon brand and works as the Director of Design Research for Bioforcetech, the carbon drawdown technology which produces OurCarbon. With a multidisciplinary design background and a focus on material innovation research, she is working to develop a market for fixed carbon materials. When she isn’t focused on OurCarbon, Elizabeth is a visiting professor at Pratt Institute in New York City where she teaches BioDesign and Sustainable Design Theory and Practice.
About OurCarbon
Every day, organic materials labeled as ‘waste’ are sent to landfill where they break down and emit greenhouse gases. Simultaneously, large scale industry continues to rely on fossil fuel dependent materials, deplete soil health, and construct our built environment with heavy carbon footprints. OurCarbon disrupts these practices by diverting organics from landfill, transforming them at net zero energy into OurCarbon, and applying it in beneficial ways. This three step ‘Divert, Transform, Apply’ process completely rethinks material production and prevents many tons of greenhouse gas emissions. OurCarbon is currently used to achieve carbon negative structural concretes, to benefit soil health, and to replace petrol based black pigments in screen printing, polymers, paints, fabric dyes, and more.
A high-level view of how OurCarbon works: OurCarbon Cycle
Find OurCarbon online at:
WEBSITE: OurCarbon
LINKEDIN: OurCarbon
LINKEDIN: Elizabeth Bridges
INSTAGRAM: @madewithourcarbon
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from warehouses or DCs to and from retail stores.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
“E-waste in general, there’s a lot of confusion around what to do with e-waste. People aren’t sure how to dispose of it—gray bin, blue bin, other bin? There’s a lot of education needed here because the infrastructure is there with organizations. Consumers just don’t know what to do with them.”
About Mary Curtiss
Mary is the Director of Sustainability at HP and has years of experience in the Sustainability space. Today, she is creating and managing a new business of sustainability services that will enable HP’s stated carbon and circularity goals which are quite aggressive and really driving the space forward in terms of momentum. Mary provides product leadership inside of HP's Personal Systems Services and across the company on the ideation, development, and management of sustainability services and has a deep understanding of customer & market requirements to develop industry leading sustainability products that enable their customers to achieve their sustainability goals. She grew up on a farm understanding circularity and the importance or reduce and reuse at a young age which has carried with her through the years in all of her roles.
About HP
HP is a technology company born of the belief that companies should do more than just make a profit. They should make the world a better place. HP's efforts focus heavily on climate action, human rights, and digital equity. With over 80 years of actions HP has the confidence to envision a world where innovation drives extraordinary contributions to humanity. And HP's technology – a product and service portfolio of personal systems, printers, and 3D printing solutions – was created to inspire this meaningful progress. Thoughtful ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time, and all it takes is one to change the world.
Read more about HP's 2022 Sustainable Impact Report
Find Mary online at:
LINKEDIN: Mary Curtiss
TWITTER: @CurtissMary
Find HP online at:
WEBSITE: HP
LINKEDIN: HP
TWITTER: @HP
INSTAGRAM: @hp
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from warehouses or DCs to and from retail stores.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
“We need to start engineering endings not just letting them drift into a floppy experience that burdens the consumer and also society in terms of having to put up with overwhelming amounts of waste. This is about getting purposeful about the end of the consumer lifecycle…One of the first things you can do at your business is ask “how does our product or project end?” and you’ll absolutely paralyze everyone.”
About Joe Macleod
Joe Macleod is founder of the world’s first customer ending business. A veteran of the product development industry with decades of experience across service, digital and product sectors.
Head of Endineering, you heard that right, at AndEnd. You’ll learn more about what that means coming up. He’s a TEDx Speaker. Wired says “An energetic Englishman, Macleod advises companies on how to game out their endgames. Every product faces a cycle of endings, from breakage to customer burnout to falling behind consumption trends. It's important to plan for each of them. Not all companies do." He is the author of the Ends book, that iFixIt called “the best book about consumer e-waste”. And the new book –Endineering, that people are saying “defines and maps out a whole new sub-discipline of study”. The DoLectures consider the Endineering book one of the best business books of 2022.
About AndEnd.
Businesses need help ending their customer experiences. By improving consumer endings businesses can improve long term brand loyalty and presence, improve consumer experience, align with legal expectations, neutralise the negative aspects of consumption and raise business awareness of consumer behaviour. And End. is the worlds first customer ending business focused on raising awareness of the impact of endings through talks and training staff. By assessing the current state of the consumer lifecycle through audits, and with advising, designing and delivering ends, brands can improve their wider business initiatives and their consumer experience.
Find Joe Macleod online at:
LINKEDIN: Joseph Macleod
TWITTER: @mrmacleod
INSTAGRAM: @mrmacleod
Find AndEnd. online at:
WEBSITE: AndEnd.co
LINKEDIN: AndEnd.
TWITTER: @andend_co
INSTAGRAM: @andend.co
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from warehouses or DCs to and from retail stores.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
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“If you look at cost and lifecycle analysis together, it then becomes a really significant piece of work to then be able to fully understand the impact that every single component has from the packaging manufacturer, to the product manufacturer, to a CPG, to a retailer and to a consumer. That whole journey becomes really complex but we have seen the transition with products… We expect a level of provenance with food. Where does it come from? Is it truly local or is it from overseas? We don’t know that about packaging. As consumers we just take it, whatever packaging our preferred product is in, we take it. We now see consumers challenging brands.”
About Gillian Garside-Wight
Gillian has over 20 years’ experience in the packaging industry, strategically developing packaging strategies, roadmaps and packaging solutions to meet the needs of clients, consumers and the planet. She has worked with many global retailers and household brands on projects spanning sustainability and innovation to supply chain optimization. With a real passion for sustainability, her quest is to educate, influence and drive a circular economy wherever possible while complementing creativity, technical functionality and commercial realities. She grew up on a tiny island in Scotland and this is where her passion for sustainability started. She loves nothing more than (trying) to grow her own veg and exploring nature with her son.
About Aura
Aura is a packaging sustainability consultancy, committed to making a measurable difference - everyday. Aura combines consultancy, strategy, and technology to deliver best-in-class, sustainable packaging solutions. Their team of packaging, sustainability, technology, and retail experts are pioneers in the use of data and knowledge that gives clients actionable reference points to drive positive change. Aura is united in their belief that truly sustainable packaging can power positive environmental change.
Find Aura online at:
WEBSITE: aura-consultants.com
LINKEDIN: Aura
LINKEDIN: Gillian Garside-Wight
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from warehouses or DCs to and from retail stores.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
"The consumer understands more and they’re more invested than ever before. There’s maturity in the conversation, in the solutions and all around the pressure and accountability for brands to do the right thing. It’s coming from all angles and there’s so much work to be done… But the impact you make as a brand helps you connect with your customer. You shouldn’t just connect over the products you’re selling them. There’s a chance to engage your consumer on a moral, human level and can have a point of view on."
About Jessica Somers
Jessica is the Global Head of Brand Communications and Sustainability at 3.1 Phillip Lim. Jessica is truly dedicated to helping brands understand the environmental and social impact of their operation and has worked in sustainability across all of the continents bringing years of expertise to the table. Based in New York City, she now sits in the New York fashion scene leading sustainability, marketing and communications for 3.1 Phillip Lim globally. Her current role includes driving the strategy; measurement and implementation of sustainable business practices, working closely with the design, production and sourcing teams on material impact and innovation.
About 3.1 Phillip Lim
3.1 Phillip Lim’s raison d’être is providing beautiful everyday classics accented with a sense of madness. Phillip Lim lives by the mantra of make less, mean more. Their 3.1 sustainable balance is comprised of small, simple actions that continuously add up to larger shifts and change. Sustainability is a key piece of who they are as a brand and as the people behind the brand. As Phillip Lim approaches each season, they take the time to relook at processes from sourcing to production, to ensure that the most responsible materials and resources are chosen.
Find 3.1 Phillip Lim online at:
WEBSITE: 31philliplim.com
LINKEDIN: 3.1 Phillip Lim
LINKEDIN: Jessica Somers
INSTAGRAM: @31philliplim
FACEBOOK: 3.1 Phillip Lim
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from warehouses or DCs to and from retail stores.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
“We always get asked ‘Have you taken into account the return shipping with the empty package?’ Yes, we look at the sustainability holistically using a lifecycle assessment. And one of the key things to think about is that so much of the impact—from CO2 impact and resource use—comes from the manufacturing. So when you’re talking about a reusable package, you’re manufacturing just one versus 100-200 single-use packages. And another part that not everyone thinks about is that for getting those 200 single-use packages, they are also taking trips from wherever they’re manufactured to wherever they’re used, and then hopefully, they’re recycled but they may go to a landfill as well, and no matter what, there is still a trip to be taken…”
About Angela Kwok
Angela is LimeLoop's VP of Operations and is a true mission-driven leader with experience working across business and technical challenges. She's worked across business operations, engineering, and sales, so she brings a true holistic view in developing strategies which lends itself well in the reusable packaging space. Angela has worked closely with leadership to scale operations and continues day-in and day-out to expand LimeLoop's current offerings with a mission to deliver a world without waste. With her background in clean energy, the built environment, commercial real estate, and startup evaluation, Angela provides a broad spectrum of insight around sustainability and how retailers can be more sustainable throughout their entire lifecycle.
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from warehouses or DCs to and from retail stores.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
LINKEDIN: Angela Kwok
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
“By 2015, when Mara had come to visit me on maternity leave, she literally sat down with tears welling in her eyes and was like, ‘We no longer can continue operating this way. Something has to change.’ She was feeling this weight, I think lead by the idea of leaving this amount of stuff and knowing the impacts of this industry and leaving it on the weight of our children. So, she said to me, ‘we have to shut this business down or we have to figure out how to change.’”
About Dana Davis
Dana joined Mara Hoffman in 2010 and successfully centralized and grew the company’s Production and Design Departments, secured partnerships with facilities around the world, and was integral in the company’s transformation into the recognizable and widely distributed brand that it is today. In 2015, Davis spearheaded the company’s transition towards sustainability, focusing on increased and innovative responsible manufacturing as well as supply chain evaluation. She is also a keen enthusiast of regenerative farming and spends her personal time gardening and landscaping with her husband and their two kids.
About Mara Hoffman
Mara Hoffman was founded in 2000 with the aim of inspiring and delighting through colors, prints and bold shapes. Fifteen years later, the company shifted their strategy to build, and operate within, a framework of sustainability. This framework includes: innovative design and manufacturing practices, responsible fabric and material selection, and increased contributions to, and participation in, social justice movements.
Find Mara Hoffman online at:
WEBSITE: marahoffman.com
- Learn more about Mara Hoffman's approach to sustainability here
LINKEDIN: Mara Hoffman
LINKEDIN: Dana Davis
INSTAGRAM: @marahoffman
FACEBOOK: @officialmarahoffman
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from warehouses or DCs to and from retail stores.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
“That led to this idea of how can we not only use more sustainable packaging but utilize packaging with a strong background in technology. We really started looking at if we could use this package over and over again then we could also solve other problems in supply chains which is answering this question we hear all of the time of “where is my package?” And this is deep rooted going beyond that of consumers asking that question, but what about retailers and carriers and 3PLs within the supply chain system asking that question too?"
About Ashley Etling
Ashley is inspired by collaboration and discovery, and driven by the confluence of design thinking, business, and technology. This continued curiosity has led to her founding and building multiple companies from the ground up. Central to Ashley’s vision is the desire to create impact by building sustainable supply chains from product to door, as well as creating a culturally sound company. LimeLoop came to be from solving a problem for herself when trying to ship products to other coworkers and wanting to find a more sustainable option that just did not exist. Outside of the LimeLoop HQ, Ashley likes testing recipes, working with other ambitious founders, sharing knowledge and especially spending time outdoors with friends and family hiking, skiing, and biking.
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from warehouses or DCs to and from retail stores.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
LINKEDIN: Ashley Etling
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
"The interesting thing is that it's actually a new take on the old economy because we always used to reuse everything. That was the economy for most of human civilization. It was waste-not-want-not. It was use it up. Make it last and reuse it as much as possible until you have something that you can't reuse anymore. That is how human civilizations have operated since really the dawn of civilization."
About Matt Prindiville
Matt is a 20+ year environmental solutioneer and recognized thought leader in the global circular economy space. He’s passionate about collaborating to solve big problems - especially around ideating and catalyzing better systems and norms to help the planet and its inhabitants thrive which is why he is passionate about Upstream and Upstream’s mission.
About Upstream
Upstream is a national non-profit dedicated to finding innovative solutions to our plastic pollution crisis and the throw-away culture we now live in. Upstream sparks innovative solutions to plastic pollution by helping people, businesses and communities shift from single-use to reuse. Upstream works with you to strategize and get creative when it comes to waste reduction so that you can be a part of the solution in the growing reuse landscape. Upstream helps leaders ideate, accelerate, and scale circular strategies that create thriving communities and build the reuse service infrastructure of tomorrow.
Find Upstream online at:
WEBSITE: upstreamsolutions.org
LINKEDIN: Upstream
LINKEDIN: Matt Prindiville
INSTAGRAM: @upstreamsolutions
TWITTER: @upstream_org
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from A to B.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
"About half of 300 million tons of plastic is single-use so it will be used for minutes maybe and then it might be on the planet for hundreds of years well beyond our time. That figure of 150 million tons is really hard to wrap your head around, but it is about as much as the weight of all of the humans on the planet...clearly this is a huge problem and we really need to be reducing this astronomical number."
About The Pact Collective
Pact is a nonprofit collective working to make beauty and wellness packaging more sustainable. So much beauty and wellness packaging cannot be recycled through curbside recycling programs — it’s often too small, too flexible, made of mixed materials, or made of materials with no end market. A majority is also made from virgin plastic, which can have negative effects on the environment. Enter Pact.We offer education, community and packaging collection programs to take responsibility for our industry’s impact right now, and to empower the industry to design more sustainable packaging in the future. Become a member today to help us reduce, recycle and drive towards circularity.
Find The Pact Collective online at:
WEBSITE: pactcollective.org
- Where can you find Pact? Pact bin locations near you
- What can be discarded with Pact? Pact collection guidelines
LINKEDIN: Pact Collective
LINKEDIN: Mia Davis
INSTAGRAM: @pact_collective
TWITTER: @pact_collective
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from A to B.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
"The practicalities of returns are extremely important. It's important to make sure the reason someone is returning is clear. The second point is making it as convenient as possible. And in our case, I like to think about a parent holding a baby in one hand and then making sure the returns process is easy enough to do with one hand. If it's not, then it isn't easy enough."
About UpChoose -- UpChoose is on a mission to activate consumers’ role in transitioning to a sustainable future. We know we need to transition towards more sustainable products and services, and we believe this creates an exciting opportunity to design superior models that lead to better outcomes for our lives and planet. We design pathways to a more thoughtful consumption model solving for joy, convenience, sustainability, and affordability, and we are starting at the beginning: babies.
UpChoose also makes for a great gift for new parents! Check out their gift subscription service.
Find UpChoose online at:
WEBSITE: upchoose.com
LINKEDIN: UpChoose
- Ali El Idrissi
TWITTER: @UpChoose
INSTAGRAM: @UpChoose
About LimeLoop -- LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to provide you with an efficient, profitable circular supply chain while saying goodbye to single-use packaging. LimeLoop’s reusable packaging can be used in ecommerce packaging to reduce both cardboard and poly mailers from a retailer’s shipping process, and can be used in retail supply chains to move goods from A to B.
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
"A circular economy represents the idea that in order to support the growing population of humans, as well as maintain some sort of natural integrity on earth, we need to completely remake the global economy in a number of ways. This could be wasting less and keeping products and materials in circulation longer or regenerating natural systems, and preferably all of the above. In general, it really comes down to the idea that we need to be extracting less and throwing away less. Right now, we have a straight line of consumption: extract, consume and throw away. In an ideal world, we'd be cycling everything back into the system."
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
Find Greenbiz online at:
WEBSITE: greenbiz.com
LINKEDIN: Greenbiz Group
- Jon LinkedIn: Jon Smieja
- Suz LinkedIn: Suz Okie
TWITTER: @greenbiz
INSTAGRAM: @greenbiz_group
"There are some core components of every EPR policy that we've seen popping up to date. One especially is that there are rules around the materials that can and can't be used. It's this idea of not just having to figure out the end of life, but you're thinking further upstream when you're designing your product and packaging and thinking about your materials preemptively."
Find LimeLoop online at:
WEBSITE: thelimeloop.com
LINKEDIN: LimeLoop
TWITTER: @theLimeLoop
INSTAGRAM: @theLimeLoop
Find Chantal online at:
EMAIL: chantal@thelimeloop.com
TWITTER: @ChantalEmmanuel
INSTAGRAM: @cto_chantal
"The fulfillment process is fairly straight forward. It’s reason built on top of reason built on top of reason and then you have to prepare yourself for the endless variables that come along in the business of shipping… However, it’s been very surprising that so much has changed in e-commerce over the last 15, 20, 25 years, but we’re very much doing fulfillment how we’ve done it 25 years ago. That to me was shocking…"
Find Manifest online at:
WEBSITE: https://manifest.eco/
LINKEDIN: Manifest
TWITTER: @Manifest
Find George online at
EMAIL: george@manifest.eco
TWITTER: @WojskiG
"I think, actually, it's OK to make big purchases and have returns. I actually think it's better to make larger, batched purchases along with larger batched returns than to be doing it one-off all of the time. If you're constantly buying two and returning one, that's really bad in terms of the environmental impact you have. But, if you're buying 10 and returning five, the cost of that and the overall impact of that is not nearly as high. If you can, try to batch your shopping when you want to increase your wardrobe, and be more loyal to merchants who offers great returns solutions."
DISCLAIMER: Andrew is a trusted LimeLoop advisor and is well-versed in all things LimeLoop.
Find Happy Returns online at:
WEBSITE: happyreturns.com
LINKEDIN: Happy Returns
INSTAGRAM: @happyreturnsco
Chantal Emmanuel, LimeLoop's Co-Founder and CTO, recently participated in SPC Advance in Atlanta where she spoke with experts in all areas of packaging, shipping and logistics. In this episode, we dig into what she heard, what she learned and what she thinks this means for both consumers and retailers in the years to come.
"At EON we believe every product will have an ID so that means your fast fashion and your luxury. That means your t-shirt that you wear a few times or your jacket, and the reason for that is the ID serves different purposes for different types of products and also has different functionality."
DISCLAIMER: Natasha and Chantal have been mutually following each other since 2018, sharing in each other's personal successes and company milestones; while also witnessing two industries - fashion and shipping - simultaneously shift from linear to more circular business models. And so, finally, on this episode of Behind the Green, host Chantal Emmanuel sits down with Natasha Franck, CEO and founder of EON, an operating system for products. Discussing interconnected products, resale business models, data sharing, and transparency in sustainability, Chantal and Natasha share their experiences - and a laugh or two.
RESOURCES:
https://www.circulardataprotocol.org/ - for the download of the Circular Product Data Protocol.
https://www.eongroup.co/ - for more about EON.
https://www.eongroup.co/reports - to download the white paper.
“We live in a system that promotes disposability and waste so I don’t think that it’s fair to put individual guilt on people for trying to function in that system.”
In this episode of Behind the Green, CEO and co-founder of Plaine Products, Lindsey McCoy talks reuse and the circular economy with host Chantal Emmanuel.
On this episode of Behind the Green, Co-founder and CTO, Chantal Emmanuel sits down with Gordon Seabury, CEO of Toad&Co, to discuss sustainability as a holistic business model - one Toad&Co's been operating under for 25 years - from operations to manufacturing to company culture and beyond.
What if shipping could change the world? LimeLoop believes it will. Behind the Green host, Christina Oliver, chats with LimeLoop's co-founder and CTO, Chantal Emmanuel about how LimeLoop plans to do just that, and how technology is just the right tool to get us there. Listen to the full episode now! And stay tuned for more Behind the Green.
Amazing conversation with Ali El Idrissi, Founder and CEO of UpChoose. We cover everything from new ways of thinking about retail and consumption, impact investing, the future of sustainability, and building a brand and business that puts the customer first.
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www.upchoose.com
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In the first episode of Behind the Green, a podcast by LimeLoop, I sit down with LimeLoop Co-Founder & CEO, Ashley Etling. Just in time for the holiday shipping rush, we discuss outdated logistics systems, changing consumer behavior, and a world without single-use packaging.
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