Interviews
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5 Days of Zero Waste with Refinery29!
I coached Refinery29’s Lucie Fink on how to go 5 days without producing any trash and SHE KILLED IT!!!! Check out our video to learn about the tips I gave Lucie to live a life with a little less trash 🙂
Sustainable Condoms with Sustain Co-Founder, Meika Hollender
Let’s talk about sex. I rarely talk about sex on Trash is for Tossers because it is one of those subjects that people get all weird about which is funny because one of the first questions people ask me is “how do you have sex if you live a Zero Waste life?” A question that I have shamefully, but successfully,…
Interview with Brush With Bamboo
Think about your toothbrush for a second. Yes, i’m serious. It’s made of plastic, most likely, and comes packaged in plastic and you will probably use it for a month or whatever until it gets all gnarled up and then throw it in the trash because what else are you supposed to do with it, right? NOT ANYMORE! My friend…
Democracy Now NYC
I am lucky. You know why? Because I got to tour the DEMOCRACY NOW! LEED PLATINUM STUDIO!!! Okay, geeking out, Democracy Now!’s host, Amy Goodman, is a major environmental, social, political, and journalistic superhero whom I totally admire. Annnnnddd little ole’ me got to tour her home away from home and learn all about its “birth”, so to speak, from an industrial print bindery into a…
Interview with Daniel Silverstein
So I was the luckiest lady ever for the weekend of my 23rd birthday. Why, you ask? Good question. The answer: Daniel Silverstein. Daniel is a designer in NYC who not only makes amazing clothes, he makes them using Zero Waste practices. What!? Someone in the fashion world is concerned about waste!? It’s true people, it’s true. He graduated from FIT where…
Interview with The Daily Slope
My friend Natalia published an article yesterday for The Daily Slope called “Recycling Tips from “Trash is for Tossers” (No longer available) which talks about NYC recycling, composting, and ways to stay green as the leaves start changing. “While we are all excited for flannel plaid jackets, pumpkin-spice everything, and that familiar smell of turning leaves in Prospect Park, the cool…