Unbottle Your Future: Recent Episodes
Oisin Bennett
This podcast is a part of the #UnbottleYourFuture campaign which has a focus around innovative sustainable practices in Ireland and how they stemmed from average peoples' raw passion for their respective fields. This series will host a few hand-picked guests who excel in their ability to merge their passion with their inner need for sustainability, in order to preserve and create a bigger and brighter future in Ireland ands around the world.
This episode focuses on Irish brand 'Attention Attire'. This company formed when a festival worker and former fashion student couldn't bare to see the amount of unwanted waste left behind at some of Ireland's most popular music festivals being brought to landfills each year. This prompted them to take things into their own hands and begin re-using festival waste in a way that allowed them to express their love of fashion and fulfill their passion for creating a more sustainable world to live in.
In 2006, Mark and Kira Walton decided to trade in their hectic corporate careers in Dublin for the quieter pace of life in Sligo on the West Coast of Ireland. Initially they joined the family business, which is a traditional seaweed bathing house owned by Mark’s brother Neil Walton. They realized that many of the customers wanted to replicate the soothing effects of the seaweed bathing experience at home. Mark and Kira seized this opportunity and created the VOYA products brand.