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18. Stephanie Benedetto: How I’m tackling fashion waste at the root using technology
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This week on Start Somewhere, I’m joined by the wonderful Stephanie Benedetto. Stephanie is the Co-Founder of Queen of Raw, a marketplace to buy and sell unused textiles, keeping them out of landfills and turning pollution into profit.
Stephanie’s fascinating story of how she started somewhere dates back to the 1890s when her great-grandfather migrated to the US and started creating fashion using discarded materials. Honouring his legacy, Stephanie founded Queen Of Raw, rescuing huge amounts of perfectly usable deadstock from landfill, saving tonnes of water and CO2 in the process.
In this episode, we speak about what led Stephanie to leave her corporate attorney job on Wall Street, her passion for finding solutions through technology, and how people, planet & profit can in fact go together.
The ask: Read the labels of the clothes you want to buy. The clothing that’s touching your skin, you want to be able to know what it’s made of. Check platforms like Good On You to learn about the brand’s sustainability & ethical practices.
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