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Meet the Halifax startup that’s making compostable period products
And the winner of The Coast's Jimmy Carr giveaway
Alyssa Goulart
April 24, 2023
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Good morning,
Happy Monday! Let’s start off the week with some excitement by announcing the winner of our Coast Insider Jimmy Carr giveaway.
Thank you to everyone who entered and made this contest a success. Without further ado the winner is…Daina! Congratulations, someone from The Coast team will be in contact with you today with instructions on how to claim your prize.
I know there were quite a few Jimmy Carr fans out there. If you aren’t Daina and would still like to check out his show at the Scotiabank Centre on May 31, tickets are available through Ticket Atlantic.
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GOING GREEN
Meet the Halifax startup that’s making compostable period products
Rashmi Prakash doesn’t care for pragmatism. As a young girl growing up in Wales and southern Ontario, the Indian-born Prakash dreamt of genetically engineering “green dragons” that would fly over the planet and convert greenhouse gases into oxygen.
“I do consider myself delusionally optimistic,” she says with a laugh, speaking with The Coast over a video call from her home in Waverley on a Friday morning. “‘Be realistic’ is, like, the worst advice I’ve ever gotten in my life.”
It shouldn’t be much of a surprise, then, that after tiring of throwing away single-use period products every month (a born environmentalist, she doesn’t care for plastic, either), the engineering-trained Prakash would settle on making an alternative of her own. Together with friend and co-founder Lanna Last, the two have a vision to reshape menstrual products across the globe—by taking them out of landfills and turning them into compost.
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⛳️ The government will not consider a proposal for a West Mabou Beach Provincial Park golf course according to Natural Resources Minister Tory Rushton.
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