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A CAIRNS DUO HOPES PARENTS WILL COME TO THE PARTY ON SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT, WRITES LAUREN PRATT
EVA Sedlakova and Lala Harrison are on a mission to change the world – one birthday party at a time.
The duo are behind Funki Trunki, a Cairns business offering eco-friendly party kits for hire. This means single-use plastics such as cups, paper or plastic plates and plastic cutlery are out and biodegradeable, reusable products are in.
The business was born from a combined love of parties and the duo’s concern over the impact of single-use plastics, which eventually break down to micro plastics, filling landfill, our oceans, and never really leaving the Earth.
Before Funki Trunki began, Eva, 24, and Lala, 30, were both involved with theSPACE, a Cairns organisation dedicated to helping people start and grow small businesses. The pair became fast friends, using each other as sounding boards for potential businesses.
Eva, who also works as a PA at a Cairns financial advisory firm, loved kids’ birthday parties and Lala, a social media freelancer, had an interest in starting an eco-friendly clothing label.
“My previous business idea was throwing parties for children,” Eva says.
“I could see with friends, how much trouble they had organising parties. I would help them organise parties but noticed so much waste, so much single-use plastics. I started talking to Lala about this.”