When Chantal Plamondon and Jay Sinha decided to try and rid their lives of plastic products for health and environmental reasons, they realized that living without plastic was an almost impossible task. Plastic products have progressively replaced everything in a cheaper less durable version.  Plastic is at the root of our disposable mentality. We buy, we use (sometimes for only a few hours), we throw out.  About 5% of plastics are actually recycled into new products, the rest end up in landfills for years.

Plastic is problematic in another way... it leaches toxic chemicals. Plasticizers are constantly leaching out of plastic products no matter how safe the plastic. The toxins that plastics emit can affect a person's health in many different ways, and have been linked to problems ranging from hormonal imbalances leading to depression, early puberty and reproductive defects, and even cancer. Sanctus Mundo is one of Chantal and Jay's contributions to the ongoing process of going back to more durable and healthier products.

Our Team

Chantal Plamondon has been studying and gaining experience in business ethics ever since having a rather eye-opening experience working for a top management consulting firm in the late nineties whose main and only concern was bottom line. Needless to say she didn't stay long at that firm and founded Sanctus Mundo with husband and business partner Jay with health, environment, community and integrity as buiilding blocks.

Jay Sinha has a background in biochemistry, law, ecotoxicology, bartending, treeplanting. He's also a novice Dad. He uses his scientific knowledge to help choose the best plastic-free products possible and have them tested for lead and phthlates. He constantly uses his knowledge of plastics and their alternatives to assist customers in finding products that are safe for health and the environment. Having had a similar life-awakening experience to Chantal, but in a large law firm, he is thrilled to be making a difference in a positive, tangible way, while living a fun local life in a village with a heart and spirit bigger than any bottom line could ever be.

Alise M. Bowler has been with Sanctus Mundo for over two years. In keeping with the requirements of living the village life, and of satisfying a rather expensive addiction to chocolate, Alise has diversified her income by not only working as our art director/graphic designer/photographer, but also by cultivating an ever-burgeoning career as one of Canada's most undiscovered singer-songwriters (aka Alise Marlane). She regrets not having taken up dentistry or auto mechanics as a more steady means of making ends meet, but continues to adeptly juggle her creative talents better than any circus clown in town.