About this show:
If you oscillate between pushing yourself and your community to do more to reduce your plastic consumption while also being frustrated that governments aren’t doing more to regulate plastic production and make more plastics recyclable on a big scale, today is the show for you. Meet our guest, Lottie Dalziel.
Lottie Dalziel started Banish in 2018 with a simple idea: give people a place to bring the things their kerbside bin couldn’t take – hard-to-recycle items like old pens, bottle caps, soft plastics and coffee pods that would otherwise end up in landfill. In 2023, Banish opened its sustainability hub in Sydney’s Haymarket.
That idea grew into one of Australia’s most recognised sustainability stores and the home of BRAD, the Banish Recycling and Diversion Program. In 2024 alone, BRAD diverted over one million pieces of plastic waste from landfill.
Lottie is on a mission: No time for doom and guilt. Just practical information and specific things people can actually do.
She has been recognised as NSW Young Australian of the Year, named in Forbes’ 30 Under 30, and has spoken at TEDx, corporates, schools and community events across Australia. Her book, 365 Ways to Save The Planet & Your Money At The Same Time, continues that same approach.
I hope you enjoy the show.
Alexx Stuart
Founder of Low Tox Life and the Low Tox movement
Join me on Insta @lowtoxlife
Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?
- Show #139: Plastic Free South East Asia with Sarah Rhodes
- Show #93: Plastic pollution and the Plastic Free July story with founder Rebecca Prince Ruiz
- Show #489. Kal Glanznig: Plastic burdens biology – ours and our planets’: It’s time to lock in POLICY to lift the burden.
- Show #94: A conversation on WASTE and powerful, gentle activism with Rob Greenfield
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About Lottie Dalziel
Lottie Dalziel started Banish in 2018 with a simple idea: give people a place to bring the things their kerbside bin couldn’t take — hard-to-recycle items like old pens, bottle caps, soft plastics and coffee pods that would otherwise end up in landfill. In 2023, Banish opened its sustainability hub in Sydney’s Haymarket.
That idea grew into one of Australia’s most recognised sustainability stores and the home of BRAD, the Banish Recycling and Diversion Program. In 2024 alone, BRAD diverted over one million pieces of plastic waste from landfill.
Lottie came from a media background, and that shapes how she talks about sustainability. No doom, no guilt. Just practical information that meets people where they are, and gives them something specific they can actually do.
She has been recognised as NSW Young Australian of the Year, named in Forbes’ 30 Under 30, and has spoken at TEDx, corporates, schools and community events across Australia. Her book, 365 Ways to Save The Planet & Your Money At The Same Time, continues that same approach.
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Title show track, by LIOR.
Love the podcast music? You will hear excerpts from Lior’s track “Caught Up” – go check it out on iTunes or Spotify if you want to hear the whole song or album, Scattered Reflections. Co-written with Cameron Deyell, it’s a great song and I love the reflective energy of it – perfect for the show, right? Enjoy. Lior is always touring, so do check out his website. It is wonderful to hear him sing live, trust me.
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