Episode 6 – Britt Puhlmann’s story: Creating sustainable grassroots solutions for Tulum
/My next podcast guest has always been passionate for the environment. In Tulum, she pursued her urge to protect the fragile ecosystem and to support locals as well as tourists to do the right (or better) thing. Together with a friend she started Tulum Recycles in 2018 – a volunteer-run community recycling pick-up service to help reduce the trash that ends up in Tulum’s overflowing landfill.
Britt is a true global citizen. After an exhausting corporate career in international marketing in Australia she became a digital nomad and decided about three years ago to swap Bondi Beach for the white sands of the Caribbean in the winter months. The summers she spends in her home town Berlin, Germany.
Next to the local organization Tulum Recycles, she also educates people on waste management and recycling. With her own non-location-bound company "Campanita Sustainability" Britt consults businesses, especially in the entertainment and music industry, on how to minimize their impact on the environment and amplify positive changes.
Looking into the future, her goal is that at one point Tulum Recycles will operate along the whole Riviera Maya from Cancún in the north until Chetumal in the south of the coast. "But my biggest vision is that Tulum Recycles don’t exist anymore,” Britt states in our conversation. Because then, we finally would be living in a circular economy that stopped the need of recycling, which eventually is the last of the five steps of acting sustainably: Refusing – Reducing – Reusing – Repairing – Recycling
Tulum Recycles
Tulum Recycles on Facebook
Britt Puhlmann on Instagram
