Elisah Pals
Founder and board member
Zero Waste Netherlands
About Elisah Pals
Elisah Pals is the frontwoman of Zero Waste Netherlands, but this was not an obvious step in her career. She was professionally trained as an occupational health psychologist and worked in the field of keeping people happy and healthy in their workplace. She stumbled upon the zero waste lifestyle whilst trying to achieve something else. “I was trying to improve my health and wanted to have less additives in my food.” This meant eating fewer processed foods and buying more whole foods: the way she did her groceries changed. “I accidentally produced half of the waste compared to before and that happened without even thinking about it. So my thinking was that if I actually put more thought into it, I could maybe produce even less waste. Everything started from there.”