From Kitchen Table to Saving 7 Million Pieces of Plastic - BeeBee Wraps Founder, Kath Austin

Make An Impact Podcast

English - August 22, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MB
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Kath Austin is the founder of BeeBee Wraps, creator of reusable natural food wraps made from organic cotton and beeswax.

Plastic-free and compostable, BeeBee Wraps are now stocked in hundreds of stores and sell in their thousands online.

Kath started making BeeBee Wraps herself when she wanted to find alternatives to single-use plastics including cling-film. Friends wanted to use the wraps themselves and encouraged Kath to launch a business.

2 and a half years later BeeBee Wraps have saved over 7.3 million pieces of plastic from being used and potentially sent to landfill or ending up in the sea.

In the conversation Kath talks about:

starting the business as part of a social venture incubation programme, Cambridge Social Ventures,how the business has grown,collaborations including with Sky Ocean Rescue and celebrities including Cara Delevingne,working with partners such as Abel and Cole and The Woodland Trust,how BeeBee Wraps measure its environmental impact,the massive cumulative effect of many micro-impacts,what stimulates behaviour change,how BeeBee Wraps are made,BeeBee Wraps' plans for the future, and more.

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Hi, I’m Heidi Fisher, the host of the Make an Impact Podcast. I'm an impact measurement expert, passionate about helping you make a bigger impact in the world by maximising the impact your services have.

I can help you to measure, manage and communicate the impact you have better to funders, investors, commissioners and other stakeholders, and to systemise your data collection and analysis so that it frees up time and doesn’t become an additional burden.

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