Working to Preserve Our Environment as an Eco-Friendly Business with Abeda Oturkar, Founder of PaperSpree

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This week's episode is featuring Abeda Oturkar, Founder and Business Manager, Paper Spree. Abeda Oturkar, armed with a Diploma in Entrepreneurship & Business and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, is an entrepreneur with a natural disposition of living in harmony and respect with our planet and its people. This has been of advantage to succeed as a natural foods educator, a restaurateur for 15 years, and now started in 2019 an eco-friendly business working to preserve and share a better world.

PaperSpree brand is here to showcase “Eco-friendly” as the new renaissance in retail. The present is about circularity, sustainable products going mainstream - to be the catalyst and fill the growing gap for affordable, accessible, high quality, durable, zero-waste products. The promise is to reduce the use of plastic, and replace retail shelves with eco-friendly products. Their collection of Accessories, Cases, Notebooks/Journals, Christmas decorations, Gift Wraps, and Stationery are 100% plastic-free, 100% recycled, 100% recyclable. We discuss how this business came to be, the challenges and successes she’s faced, the importance of community & networking through the Power Panel, how we can truly make a difference for our environment, and much more!

This episode is sponsored by WEtech Alliance as part of The Canada / U.S. Power Panel program supported by the U.S. Consuls General in Canada’s Building Back Better Program aimed at strengthening support for women entrepreneurs during COVID-19. For information on WEtech Alliance, visit www.wetech-alliance.com

Listen in to learn about:

What a circular economy is and why it’s important for creating a net zero-carbon
How a circular economy business model differs from a traditional business model
What we can be doing to make the circular economy happen by rethinking everything we use
How we can encourage consumer awareness and behavioural shifts when making decisions that impact our planet
What role bioplastics and other bio-based materials play in the shift away from non-renewable materials for packaging and products
Some of the challenges she has faced in growing her business along with the successes

Resources:

Website: http://www.paperspree.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/paperspree/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paperspree/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaperSpreeCanada

Working to Preserve Our Environment as an Eco-Friendly Business with Abeda Oturkar, Founder of PaperSpree

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