#79 Cleaning up our act with Ellie Brade of Cleanery

12/05/2024 1h 0min

Listen "#79 Cleaning up our act with Ellie Brade of Cleanery"

Episode Synopsis

From humble beginnings in her kitchen to a huge factory in West Auckland, Ellie Brade is out to change the way we clean.
Her business, Cleanery, is a low-waste cleaning and personal care brand. The products are a sachet of powder that are added to a bottle of water and mixed up.
Co-founded with her husband, Ellie's business started with making her own cleaning products at home with baking soda and vinegar.
Hear Ellie talk about...

How her first home made cleaning products were not great
Why being a yachting journalist got her into environmentalism
How she alleviates her climate anxiety
Packaging issues! Why compostable is not the best and how sugarcane isn't the answer yet either
In plastic waste, one supermarket bottles equates to 100 Cleanery sachets, which make 100 bottles of cleaning fluid
Why a business is never too young to embed B Corp
How B Corp gave them a boost overseas

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