Who Did You Interview?
- Haley
Demographics That Might Provide Helpful Context for Their Responses
- University Student at Stanford
- Works at Rivian
- From Utah
Key Findings from the Interview
- Sustainable
- Electric car company - big on sustainability
- Recycled car materials from old cars rather than making new steel
- Economic
- father is a green marketing professor — big history with sustainability
- lives in a passive solar powered geothermal heated home
- Only drives electric cars/only electric stoves/fireplaces
- Second hand clothing
- Challenges
- Misconception that recycled products are inferior
- need to normalize using recycled materials
- Wants to use mason jars instead of plastic bags
- Sustainable products
- Uses recycled materials that are non toxic materials
- Circular economies — one man’s trash is another man’s treasure
- Landfills
- issue is volume — up to corporations into reducing packaging (stop using single use plastics and use more glass and cardboard
- Also simplify packaging and sourcing local goods