In 2012, businesswoman and environmental enthusiast, Lauren Singer, began “Trash is for Tossers”, a blog in which she documents her Zero Waste lifestyle. Her passion for sustainability and reducing waste has dominated and driven this blog, which holds numerous videos and information regarding the significance of her movement. Taking this passion to greater heights, Lauren Singer decided to create a company that shares this lifestyle with the world and educates those who are unaware of this movement. In her blog, Singer writes, “I created Package Free Shop because I believe that as consumers we all should have convenient access to products that help us reduce our environmental impact. I also started Package Free Shop to empower amazing mission driven entrepreneurs who are dedicating their lives to tackling plastic pollution and waste and help their businesses to grow in a way that was sustainable”. Ultimately, she identified the problem of finding waste-free products conveniently in one place and decided to solve it with a new business.
Singer’s company, Package Free Shop, was founded in 2018 and maintains a store location in New York City as well as an extensive online shop. The products that she sells promote a waste-free lifestyle and include beauty products, cleaning products, pet products, and office products. Thus far, Lauren Singer’s venture has been measured extremely successful. The Package Free Shop website writes, “Since opening, we’ve kept an estimated 4,025,600 plastic straws, 3,061,240 plastic bags, and 1,419,260 non-recyclable bottles and cups out of landfill”. It is incredibly inspiring to learn this story of Lauren Singer, how she was able to use her passion to identify a problem that she created a successful solution for. Singer was willing to take a risk in this industry and spread her passion in a way that impacts others. Hopefully, this company will continue to find success in a market that has strong potential.
Wow! It’s so neat that Singer was able to take something that she was passionate about and turn it into a great business opportunity. The Package Free Shop has created such a big impact in the short period of time that they have been opened. Very impressive!