Episode 139

[FOCUS] Some Good News

Episode Summary: This episode delves into a discussion titled 'Some Good News,' selected from Episode 31. 

Hosts Olabanji, Jenn, and Leekei highlight positive news and initiatives that inspire hope in the battle against climate change.

In this segment, Olabanji expresses his admiration for the efforts of Gary Bencheghib, who is dedicated to cleaning the beaches and waterways in Bali. He also discusses the innovative solutions Gary and his team have developed to repurpose plastic waste.

To listen to the full episode of ‘Good News’ go here.

To find out more about Gary and his work, check out his IG account.  

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributor Olabanji Stephen, Jenn Swanson and Leekei Tang.

Olabanji is from Lagos Nigeria, he’s a Creative Director and visual designer that helps brands gain clarity, deliver meaningful experiences and build tribes through Design & Strategy. He founded Jorney - a community designed to help people stay productive, accountable, and do their best work.

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves.   

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert and podcaster from Paris, France.

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

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Um, mine is kind of a,

a, a good, bad news.

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So , do you wanna start or, Okay.

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Okay.

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Let's make it good.

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So, one thing that, that I'm really

excited about, And excited to see is

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Gary, and I hope I don't murder his name

here, but his name is Gary Ben Give, and

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he's cleaning the man groups in Bailey.

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And in total they've gotten around

227,842 plastic items from the man

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groups and the dump sites that, Whoa.

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So he's not doing it

all by himself, right?

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He's not a team, no.

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Yeah, a team of 30 people, So that

makes them 31 and 31 people, literally.

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Cleaned out.

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227,842 items from the mans and

the waterways and the shores

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and the dump sites in baby.

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It's just mind blowing

and, and that's not all.

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The interesting thing is as they

are collecting this plastics,

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they're sorting them out and taking

them to a factory where they're

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repurposing them for beauty materials.

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Art, some work works of art as

well, and they're using everything.

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And so, you know, it's easy to collect

stuff from the do site like plastics

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and, and then the question becomes,

okay, now what, what do we do with

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this since we've collected them?

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Cause it's not enough to just collect

them, but they're proposing them in

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such an efficient way that I'm like,

I'm, I'm so excited to see that.

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And that's really great.

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So that's, that's the good news

and I'm gonna keep it good.

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. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But is it part of an organization or

is it part of a business or something?

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Or what, what's, what's next

now that he's, he's done that.

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Um, yeah, he, so far he's done this,

um, for, as a person, as far as I know.

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I'm not sure he's part of an organization.

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He does this and make a

change that world thing.

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Um, yeah, that's like an, that's,

it's pretty much environmental media.

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. Um, so I think that captures

all the work that they do.

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Mm-hmm.

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and then puts it up in, in the media

spaces where they deserve to be seen.

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Um mm.

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But, but he is doing this, um,

for the most part, um, with

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himself and, and his team.

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So, I mean, that's the march.

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I know.

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Yeah.

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It's really inspired.

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That's very, Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I almost sent you to post on Instagram and

I'm going to do that right now cause Yeah.

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You need to see it.

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You need to see it.

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How they're sending this out and making.

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Um, you, you are going to be mind blown

when you see what they're making out of

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plastics by sorting them out, you know,

grinding them in some way into smaller

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particles and then repurposing them.

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It's so beautiful.

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So great.

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So yeah, I'm sure.

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I'm sure I will, please.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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, you said it to me.

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Yeah, I, I, just following up on that for

one second, I bought a hair conditioner

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thing the other day, and normally I

use a bar, but for some reason I bought

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a, a container, but I was reading this

container and it said, made from ocean

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bound plastic, so, They save plastic

that would've been thrown into the ocean

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somewhere, I guess like what you were

talking about, and turned it into new

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bottles for hair products, I guess.

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So anyway, I just, that just made

think, wow, that's great what you

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can do with plastic . You will, but

maybe you can share the brand then.

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It gets me excited.

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I don't remember what it's,

but it, I don't, cuz I, I,

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I'd never bought it before.

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It was some, some brand

I'd never heard of before.

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Wow.

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That's great.

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Great.

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I mean, these guys make

food mats from plastic.

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They make fences from plastic.

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One, One of their, their research says

that the highest number of plastics they

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found in the ocean around the, the mangos.

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Sandals.

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So they found a lot of sandals

there, like rubber sandals.

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And what they did was they, they collected

all the rubber sandals and stacked them

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according to their colors, and then

put in like, Pipes through them, sort

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of treads, and then used, you know,

arranged them and made a fence with them.

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It was, that's the most beautiful

fence I've seen all year.

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It, it was mind blowing.

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Wow.

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You can see through it's

beautiful and all that from waste.

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And, you know mm-hmm.

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Plastic waste and that's going to

be there for as long as it has to

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be because it's a fence, you know?

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So it's some really cool stuff.

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Oh yeah.

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It's very inspiring.

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I'm looking forward to look at

it as I send it to on Instagram

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so you can have a look as well.

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Okay.

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Um, My turn?

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Yeah, your turn.

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Um, I wanna share with you something

that is related to food and food waste.

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