GIFTGUIDE Winter 2021

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Great EXPECTATIONS

With Australians increasingly opting for Australian made and sustainable products, eco-friendly and sustainable Resparkle decided it was time for a zero waste collection.

R

esparkle

eight sustainable years with

founder Pearl

Resparkle,” she enthuses.

Chan says being a zero

Creating a zero-waste cleaning

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“As I imagined all the lives lost in the buildings that looked exactly like mine, it truly was a

brand was ultimately inspired

wake-up call for me. I asked my

waste brand has always been a

by a burning desire to prove

almost 30-year-old self, would

log off lofty goal of the brand.

that you can build a profitable

I be happy with the life I led if a

and successful business that

plane came through the window

to create a product that did

also serves a greater good. The

that morning? The answer was

not contribute to single-use

desire originated from being

a resounding no. I didn’t know

plastic and contribute to landfill?

disillusioned by a few incidences

what it would look like then, but

This was always the dream for

in her past corporate career as

I felt that my purpose was for

me and I’m so happy to have

a private banker, with the last

something bigger than being

finally achieved our goal after

straw being 9/11.

a slave to the bottom line and

“Would it even be possible

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