Jinelle Pietreder, a 21-year-old entrepreneur, and a global studies and business student at Wilfrid Laurier University, runs her business, SOUL standing for “Show Our United Love”, with gratuitous socially responsible business ethics and goals. Her business: Making purses out of those candy wrappers, thousands and thousands of them!
It all started because she became a distributor for Xocai chocolate a few years ago. It is a company based in Reno, Nevada, which bills itself as a healthy chocolate company. The bite-sized nuggets come in shiny gold, blue and dark brown wrappers.
Pietreder started saving the …