First Mile's Climate Heroes

WasteAid is a UK-based organisation that works with communities in low-income countries to implement greener recycling and waste management programmes. Their hard work improves the lives of some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet. Episode 13 Hosted by Bruce Bratley Featuring Ceris Turner-Bailes of WasteAid

Tom Kay is the founder of UK-based surfing brand Finisterre, which designs functional and sustainable products for those who love the sea. The Finisterre Foundation aims to inspire people to love and protect the sea and remove its barriers to access so everyone can enjoy our oceans.   Episode 12 Hosted by Bruce Bratley Featuring Tom Kay of Finisterre

Stuart McLachlan discusses the importance of achieving the target of net zero as a business in his latest book ‘The Adventure of Sustainable Performance', which guides you through the everchanging world of Environmental, social, and governance compliance.   Episode 11 Hosted by Bruce Bratley Featuring Stuart McLachlan of Anthesis

Henry Unwin from Daylesford Organics discusses the ongoing debate of organic vs regenerative farming, and closing the price gap between the produce of each method. He talks about the environmental benefits of living in season and what it means for our health and the planet. Episode 10 Hosted by Bruce Bratley  Featuring Henry Unwin of Daylesford Organic

CanO Water are ditching plastic bottles in favour of infinitely recyclable aluminium cans to tackle plastic pollution. Josh White and his co-founders came up with the idea after a trip abroad showed them the real extent of the issue. CanO Water is now an industry leader in the fast-growing canned water space. Episode 9 Hosted By Bruce Bratley Featuring Josh White of CanO Water

Black Girls Hike provides a safe space for black women to explore the outdoors and reconnect with nature. With less than 1% of national park governing bodies being people of ethnically diverse backgrounds, Rhiane has spent several years working to challenge the status quo by hosting nationwide group hikes, outdoor activity days and training events to tackle the lack of inclusion and representation...

Georgina Wilson-Powel is a journalist & author. Her new book ‘365 Ways to Save the Planet’ cuts through the noise in an often confusing world of sustainability, by offering a day-to-day guide to living greener - from making your own cordial, to making your pension work for the planet.  Hosted by Bruce Bratley  Featuring Georgina Wilson-Powell, journalist and author of ‘Is it really g...

Described as the “Mr Beast of Litter”, Simon Jacob’s app LitterLotto rewards its users for binning their litter. Instant cash prizes range from £5 to £250, with the possibility of winning the £10,000 monthly jackpot.    Hosted by Bruce Bratley  Featuring Simon Jacobs of LitterLotto 

In this Earth Hour special, we spoke to Nigel Harvey from Recolight, one of the UK’s electronics and lighting recyclers. Nigel spotlights some of the most pressing industry issues such as light pollution, the new phenomenon known as “light shaming”, and what type of lighting is the worst for the planet.    Hosted by Bruce Bratley  Featuring Nigel Harvey of Recolight 

Toast Ale is beer that's brewed using surplus bread that’s otherwise wasted. In this episode, co-founder Louisa Ziane explains how it’s made, and Toast Ale’s mission to tackle the planet’s food waste problem - one beer at a time.    Hosted by Bruce Bratley  Featuring Louisa Ziane of Toast Ale

Keep Britain Tidy is an independent environmental charity whose aim is to reduce litter, prevent waste and improve local areas. In this episode, Dr Anna Scott discusses how we can all do our bit to help reduce consumption and eliminate unnecessary waste by implementing sustainable practices. Hosted by Bruce Bratley Featuring Dr Anna Scott of Keep Britain Tidy

The Plastic Paradox debunks everything you thought you knew about plastic using scientific evidence from over 400 studies. This includes paper straws and why they’re worse for the environment than plastic ones, and why the greenest option is usually quite simply the cheapest. Hosted By Bruce Bratley  Featuring Chris DeArmitt of The Plastic Paradox

Extinction Rebellion (also known as XR) is a global environmental movement whose aim is to drive government action through non-violent means to tackle the ongoing climate crisis. Nigel Harvey is the CEO of electronics recycling company Recolight and is an avid climate activist who has been arrested 6 times at Extinction Rebellion protests across the UK. Hosted By Bruce Bratley  Featuring Nige...

There’s a growing trend toward compostable packaging and this episode we meet Vegware to find out how it’s made and how to properly recycle end-of-life compostables.

Meet the world’s first interactive streaming platform who want to change the world through education and entertainment, by building a community dedicated to the future of our planet.

Weather forecasts have become much more accurate in the last decade due to advances in atmospheric physics powered by super-computing. These advances are leading to better climate predictions and in this episode we hear from Antje Weisheimer who is a climate physicist at Oxford University.

Sourcing better packaging with a lower carbon footprint is a key consideration for brands today and we meet a company on a mission to help businesses make better decisions using technology designed to balance cost, time, and impact.

In this episode we meet Dr Torill Bigg who is a Carbon Reduction Engineer, and we need engineers more than ever to re-engineer everything from machines to whole systems so we reduce our carbon impact.

Brompton aren’t just an iconic folding bike, they also form a key part in sustainable city transport and in this episode we learn about the impact of making a Brompton and their role in urban mobility.

In this episode we meet Frugalpac who are disrupting the packaging market with their latest product – a paper bottle – which has six times less embedded carbon and is easier to recycle.

Bokashi is the Japanese word for “well fermented organic matter” and it is said to be the most efficient way to replenish soil with organic matter. In this episode we will hear from Agriton, to learn how Bokashi is becoming a star of green waste management.

A recent UN report shows that household carbon footprints are dominated by the food we eat, but this could change with a quarter of us aiming to be vegan or veggie by 2025. In this episode we meet AllPlants who are helping us become imperfect plant-eaters.

In this episode we meet Zak Johnson, founder of Reborn who reward you for recycling plastics at your workplace, and with full traceability, recycle your plastic back into corporate and leisure clothing.

Each adult in the UK has annual carbon footprint of 10 tonnes and this episode hears how we can easily make small decisions daily to reduce this impact. Nudj is a climate behaviour app that sets challenges to help users move to sustainable lifestyles. We meet Dee and Meg who’s goal is reduce everyone’s carbon footprint by one tonne by empowering simple, sustainable changes to our habits.

It’s estimated the UK produces half a million tonnes of plastic film per year for consumer packaging, and less than 5% is recycled. This episode meets Berry bpi, Europe’s biggest film recycler, to find out why we have so much plastic film in our lives, and to get an update on how we recycle more of this material.