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Interview with Crystal Dreisbach, Founder of Don't Waste Durham

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Interview with Crystal Dreisbach, Founder of Don't Waste Durham

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Question #1: Can you explain how you confront changing people's values towards climate action and sustainability?

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The World Counts is an educational site built on the premise that our consumer society is currently unsustainable.

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The World Counts - Number of plastic bags produced

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We reuse many of our own personal containers - Tupperware, silverware, water bottles, coffee cups, etc - but what will it take to extend the logic of a circular economy (or "sharing economy") to decrease our plastic waste?

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We reuse many of our own personal containers - Tupperware, silverware, water bottles, coffee cups, etc - but what will it take to extend the logic of a circular economy (or "sharing economy") to decrease our plastic waste?

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Last year, two of the members of the band Green Day released the world's first compostable coffee bag, constructed from corn starch and "plant-based plastics"

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The two things people get really passionate about are music and coffee. A man who's won Grammys for his music is hoping to make just as big of an impact with his coffee.

Mike Dirnt has a pretty sweet gig. "My day job, I'm the bass player for the band Green Day," Dirnt said.

Being a rock star means working long hours. "I can't exist without great coffee," Dirnt said.

And over the years, it's become an obsession. "I'll roast my own beans right there. Sometimes I'll even throw them in a cast iron skillet," he said.

And now, that obsession's turned into a business. Oakland Coffee is launching an exclusive blend at Costco stores. "We're not really into the tangy thing and we're not into the burnt thing, we like a nice chocolatey, earthy full bodied cup of coffee," Dirnt said.

But beyond the flavor, there's something else he claims is a world first. "All of our bags are made from corn starches and plant based plastics," he said.

He created bags that can live on the shelf for a year, but can go in the compost when they're empty, including the little plastic valve that keeps the coffee fresh.

But Oakland Coffee's also taking on another challenge. Bag waste has been around for decades, but now there's a new kind of waste that's taking over: the single serving coffee pods sold by the hundreds.

"It's billions and billions, people say 15 billion a year go in and fill up the landfills," said John Rogers of Rogers Family Coffee.

So Oakland Coffee teamed up with San Francisco Bay Coffee to make a pod that won't wind up in the landfill.

"A product that is 100 percent compostable. You take it out of your single serve machine, throw it right in the green bin. Three weeks, it's dirt," Rogers said.

They'll be selling those in about a month. For now, the whole beans come in 12-ounce bags.

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2 Green Day members create eco-friendly coffee company

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The two things people get really passionate about are music and coffee. A man who's won Grammys for his music is hoping to make just as big of an impact with his coffee. Mike Dirnt has a pretty sweet gig. "My day job, I'm the bass player for the band Green Day," Dirnt said.

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Interview with Crystal Dreisbach, Founder of Don't Waste Durham

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Interview with Crystal Dreisbach, Founder of Don't Waste Durham

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Question #2: How does your work relate to the future you envision for your children?

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"A reality that aims to trigger the viewer's senses, so that they don't stay uninvolved, but feel like a co-perpetrator and a part of this charmingly ugly, imaginative nature that I believe reflects the mutation organic life suffers at the hands of modern humans" 

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"A reality that aims to trigger the viewer's senses, so that they don't stay uninvolved, but feel like a co-perpetrator and a part of this charmingly ugly, imaginative nature that I believe reflects the mutation organic life suffers at the hands of modern humans" 

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(Source: Adbusters Magazine, "Bye Bye American Pie, Year of Living Dangerously Pt. 6")

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Interview with Crystal Dreisbach, Founder of Don't Waste Durham

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Interview with Crystal Dreisbach, Founder of Don't Waste Durham

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Question #3: How does the design model behind "Green to Go" ultimately reduce the amount of disposables used?

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A circular economy is built around reducing, reusing, AND refilling. This socially-conscious company based in Durham, NC, provides consumers with another example of "greening" consumerism.

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Fillaree is a zero waste, sustainable soap company whose core mission is to reduce household plastic waste through refill. Reduce, reuse & REFILL with Fillaree's handmade line of essential liquid refillable goods.