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"There was a misalignment of
what I believed in and what I was
actually doing. My zero-waste
lifestyle was my way of aligning
those values."
For more information
about Lauren Singer,
a zero waste life and
ways to align your
environmental values
with daily life, visit
trashisfortossers.com.
When I did it, it was empowering because a zero-waste lifestyle? What have you how to cook and how to plan. The most
I was able to pursue what made me happy. seen in yourself? expensive food you can buy is the food
So it’s been about a year and a half and the that you end up throwing away.
company has grown a lot. We went from LS: A lot of things I would never
just me to an actual team. We offer a four- expect to see. One, I lost a lot of weight IH: How do you think the zero
ounce product and tote bags with a new living this lifestyle because I started waste philosophy is changing the world
packaging design coming soon. I remember eating a lot healthier and wasn’t eating around you?
thinking of starting a company. I pictured packaged, processed food anymore.
myself putting some laundry powder in a LS: The zero-waste lifestyle is the
jar and selling it on Etsy. For some reason A secondary benefit was that I saved first option that we’ve seen where
I didn’t think that was good enough or money. There’s a preconception that living people can actually take it upon
sustainable enough so there was self- a zero-waste lifestyle means having to themselves to drastically reduce
doubt. Going through that battle with spend excess money. That’s completely their environmental impact. Next to
myself, “I don’t know if I can do this, I don’t false. Over the past four years I’ve saved vegetarianism or veganism, it’s the only
know if I can do this” to actually being able over $20,000 because my weekly food solution that’s internal. Before you
to hold my physical tangible product in my costs went from about $160 to about try to change the world around you,
hand, that’s amazing! $60, just buying fresh natural food. I change your life and how you do things
think a lot of people think fresh food and inherently, and in truth that will result in
IH: What are the benefits of living natural food is more expensive, but I changing the world.
think it’s because people have forgotten
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