IKE SMITH moved to the Northern Rivers region in 2020 to set up Zero Co, the company he founded as part of his mission to stop single-use plastic packaging in every kitchen, laundry and bathroom in Australia. After selling his stake in Cake Wines, the brand he co-founded in 2011, Mike and his wife Alyssa spent 18 months travelling to the most far-flung reaches of the planet where they saw the extent of the Earth’s plastic pollution problem first-hand. Since
