08/02/2025

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Town Haul Rewind: Stacia Jensen, Founder of LilyBee Wrap

Town Haul Rewind: Stacia Jensen, Founder of LilyBee Wrap

A distinctive one-use plastic alternate, B Corp Lilybee Wrap is an straightforward way to lessen squander in your personal property.

In this City Haul Rewind, host Amy Koonin Taylor is joined from New Zealand by LilyBee Wrap Founder Stacia Jensen to break down the LilyBee Wrap origin story and celebrate the brand’s environmental effect.

On what would make beeswax a great solitary-use plastic alternate:

STACIA JENSEN: “So, the ideal way I have heard it explained is that cheesemongers actually seriously like it due to the fact there is a thing about it that seals in freshness, but it is however a dwelling natural environment. So, as a substitute of it remaining seriously sterile, like a plastic, it is still permeable. There is a little bit of a natural circulation in and out however [it] even now seals in freshness. I know that appears a tiny bit odd, but that’s essentially what nature does with beeswax. We include in a couple other elements to make it much more pliable. So, if you use just beeswax on cotton, I inspire persons if they want to make their personal to do that. Just know it’s not going to function quite as perfectly. It is heading to crack quicker, and it’ll wear out more rapidly.”

On how her beeswax product or service conjures up additional eco-helpful life style modify:

STACIA JENSEN: “So, we started out in a a person-bedroom cottage. I was pregnant and undertaking all the production, all the almost everything. 12 months two, we decided to aim additional on the worldwide marketplaces [such as] the United States, just due to the fact that is a natural extension for me. And we’ve now sold hundreds of thousands of wraps and estimate that our group now has assisted save about 55 million meters of plastic heading into the surroundings. Now that, for me, is a strong variety. But what I feel is the largest victory, if you will, is that way of living modify. I normally say that we’re a gateway drug simply because portion of what I wanted to do was be quite inclusive. I didn’t want to be preachy. I didn’t want to say you’re zero waste or practically nothing at all. I’m not zero squander. I know that I’m consistently seeking to make better choices, but having a newborn and a enterprise, we experienced to make compromises. And I imagine most people can relate to that. So, I seriously did not treatment if you’re somebody who eats rapidly foods every day and decides this is a thing you want to check out. We want to meet people today the place they are, and then that empowerment and knowing that they can do a thing that makes them come to feel superior, normally sales opportunities to other variations. So, which is one particular of the major wins, I sense like, further than just a person, stopping single-use plastic.”

On how getting treatment of the community goes hand in hand with their B Corp certification:

STACIA JENSEN: “I just can’t think about obtaining a pantry and refrigerator complete of food and understanding that someone else is hungry, in particular within just your sphere. So, those are some of the matters that I experience like, we cannot touch the full planet but we can do items we can do in our surroundings. And that really does make a variation, and which is how I slumber at night. Being aware of that there are a great deal bigger issues that I can not tackle, I attempt to deal with the ones that are closest to us and that I can affect.”

On what results indicates to her:

STACIA JENSEN: “So, results is much further than the fiscal sense for me. It is truly living my values and authenticity that continue when I say I act or when you act from that heart place to live in a continual point out of that self-being aware of.”


Amy Koonin Taylor is Marketing Information and Media Supervisor at Rubicon. To stay in advance of Rubicon’s bulletins of new partnerships and collaborations around the globe, be positive to observe us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, or get in touch with us nowadays.